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    Features you wish NX had?

    John, Mia Culpa for not searching through other threads first; I was overjoyed to (re)find the Stress Wizard; Thanks! As for the measure tool, you are correct, I meant i,j,k values, not the absolute x,y,z ones. Solid Edge has a particularly nice view with colored axes. Also, their Smart Measure...
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    Features you wish NX had?

    Perhaps very pedantic, but I'd love to have a measuring tool that displayed results like everyone else (SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Creo) by showing the X Y and Z components of the measurement vector without having to drag up the "Info" window which is quite cluttered, old fashioned and generally in...
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    NX Nastrans not available on Macs?

    Thanks for the reply. I also confirmed it independently via GTAC (finally) as well as a verbal confirmation from one of Siemens' CAE tech support reps. http://support.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/docs/nx/nx85/85_rn/index.html#uid:index_sysinfo:id744501:id782961:id782965 Given how...
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    NX Nastrans not available on Macs?

    I can't find any mention of it's absence on GTAC, and my ugii_env_ug.dat shows it (along with ANSYS and MSC Nastrans and a few others) listed with paths to folders that don't exist. I compared the Mac install to the Windows install and noticed that there's no "nxnastran" folder between "nxhuman"...
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    NOOOOOO NX9 use ribbon interface

    Quick question for John; I love what I've seen so far in the screen shots (thanks for those), but I worry that I've also read lots of mention of Microsoft development, so I'm wondering if this new ribbon will be a Windows-only UI enhancement? Right now, the unified toolbar (or whatever it's...
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    Anti-Aliased fonts in UI for NX 8.5.1 on Mac?

    I've been using the Mac version of NX 8.5.1 successfully now for a couple months now that all major graphics bugs seem to have been addressed and I find it reasonably tolerable. With the exception of the Space Navigator buttons being un-configurable, everything else seems to work pretty well...
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    running NX 8 on new Macbook Pro

    Just adding an update from my experience with the newly released 8.5 version on my Macbook Pro Retina. Install was easy and seems to be getting better. Thought I've been using a node-locked license since 10.7 due to license server incompatibilities, these appear to have been fixed, at least with...
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    running NX 8 on new Macbook Pro

    I've been using NX 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 on my various Macs since Apple came out with the Intel Macbook Pro. I've generally stuck to just running the Windows version inside of a Parallels virtual machine since they've had OpenGL direct pass-through the longest. It was quite impressive 6 years ago just...

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