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  1. wecurb

    Benefits of Spaceball?

    "than most of my coworkers, who use trackballs" rjc: trackballs and spaceballs are two entirely different animals. Whereas, one can force a mouse or trackball to zoom, pan or spin, that is a crippling process eliminating the ability to concurrently do those functions while using the pointing...
  2. wecurb

    sketching in NX6

    A lesson I have learned, the hard way, is that, if you do not turn off inferred constraints (Horiz etc.) that you will get constraints conflicting with what you expect. Also, directional dimensions give the same problem. Add geometry to allow perpendicular dims. only.
  3. wecurb

    Manual for Nx6?

    Sham Tickoo's book (from CADCIM) beats DesVis book hand's down. Randy Shih has a good one also. All of them are really basic in concept. DesVis title in completely misleading. It most assuredly not an advanced book at all.
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    Which Engineering Schools Offer Adequate GD&T Courses?

    In my dealings with grads from several different nationally recognized universities, over a couple of decades, I have discovered that Engineering grads are great calculators and atrocious designers and absolutely incompetant drafters. Now that CAD has entered the arena, one of the drafting slots...
  5. wecurb

    Teamcenter spreadsheet question

    In Teamcenter, try File new dataset. In the newly opened window scroll down to MSExcelX. Create the file, add something to a cell. Try to save it. Then try to open it. If it opens the you are good to go. I can not give you the process, we can not use this handy feature where I work.
  6. wecurb

    Supply Chain Ethics

    Most companies have an "ethics course" that specifies what type of activities are approved of, frowned on or just plain illegal. I suggest you take Company A's courses before you shoot yourself in the foot.
  7. wecurb

    Teamcenter spreadsheet question

    If your IT department will allow saving documents (pdf, doc, xls, etc.) to Teamcenter then a lot of the naming issues should go away. Also, it should preserve the data integrity of the xls file as your C drive could puke.
  8. wecurb

    GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

    Try exporting as either CGM or PDF and importing them back into the comglomerate drawing?
  9. wecurb

    bottom line Space-(explorer, pilot pro, navigator) question

    Check out Space Maus. It looks slick. Pricey but slick. http://www.spacecontrolmaus.com/spacemaus-cap-ball.html
  10. wecurb

    Target Points in drawing

    CPaul you are right, the pull down menues do not work (NX6). Open the CURVE Menu itself. Then you can add the required geometry in the expanded view. I had this same argument with my CAD support group. Their claim was that the pull-downs were not broke, my question was, "Why the different...
  11. wecurb

    NX6.something & work in expanded view

    Thanks, Will the dimensions done in this manner be accurate? Mine were coming out half as large as they should have been. "Easier" would be context sensitive warnings that tell you "this is now not supported, try..." I suspect that a search in the online docs would not be of a lot of value. Re...
  12. wecurb

    Assembly constraints in NX7

    John, does the simultaneous solution eliminate the old issue (V4 and prior) of, after 300 or so mating conditions, the "loading solver" subroutine kicking in? Thanks
  13. wecurb

    Can detailed threads be made simplified?

    You must have a major Hoss computer to be able to display the detailed threads! A lot of places will slap your hands for that.
  14. wecurb

    NX6.something & work in expanded view

    I have not done a lot of detailing lately. Even when I did, I rarely used expanded view. I have almost all icon menues off, to maximize working screen size. In expanded view Insert-Point and Insert-Curve are mostly grayed out. However, activating the icon menu allows insertion of both elements...
  15. wecurb

    Controlling Note Text Height

    Try Insert-Curve-Text. Anything newer than NX3, I think, has that function. Tieing them together with a single expression should be possible as a ratio of slot length-width to text spacing-height.
  16. wecurb

    Text in modeling/drafting

    Suggestion, change your pardigm. Don't plunk an annotation on it but use the Insert-Curve-Text option. Then extrude it in or out.
  17. wecurb

    One part number - multiple suppliers

    "linked" wave or promotions?
  18. wecurb

    3DConnexion Space Mouse

    John, I appreciate your postion as Product Evangelist. I understand it is to tout all the good things about NX. 5 axis machine capability may be wonderful for a very select audience. The overwhelming masses use NX for applications that AutoCad or SW can fully handle. Very often with greater...
  19. wecurb

    Edit sketch in NX5

    A cavaet learned long and hard ago. When it acts funny the second time, have someone watch you (gremlins like making a monkey out of you), if it happens again: clean your temps and reboot!
  20. wecurb

    Monitors, How many do you use?

    Heck, I have 2 at home. I wish I could get 2 at work. The Dell I have here is a 1280x1024. I can not even open NX menues fully

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