Auto Advancing selections in dialog box - NX 9

[ROK99]

Prior to NX 9, when users wanted to do a selection of "intersection," they could just click the first line and then the second line. Now, when you click the first line, you have to go back to the dialog box and tell NX "I am going to select the second line now." It does not automatically advance to "second object."

Users are annoyed with the fact that an intersection is always defined by 2 picks. Why do we have to tell NX that it is time to do the second pick? It should advance to the second object to be selected for you.

Is this a setting we can change or a bug?

Thanks!

 

[cowski]

In the customer defaults, go to Curves -> trim curve and turn on the single selection option.

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[ROK99]

"Single Select" did not make the dialog box advance to the next click. This is driving users here crazy.

 

[cowski]

Make sure the setting is not locked at the site or group level, and make sure to restart NX after changing the option.

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[scout67]

The lack of the auto advance feature has bugged me as well. I too have found no setting to initiate that option.

The other thing that puzzles me is when using the select two entity intersection my selection filter defaults to "connected curves." I'm having a problem finding the setting to control this as well. "Single selection" is my "curve" - "trim curve" setting already.

I reuse may customer defaults from one version to the next, and nx9 definitely handles this differently than 8.5.

Thanks for any direction provided.

 

[ROK99]

You can add the "Curve Rule" filter to your Top Border Bar (or anywhere else) to be able to set it as you select curves. Customize > Commands tab > Top Border Bar > Selection. Scroll down to "Curve Rule" and drag/drop to a ribbon or border bar. When you get into a dialog that requires curve selection, it will become active, change to single curve.

 

[ROK99]

At this point, it appears NX has diabled the auto-advance on selections that require 2 clicks (like intersection). You have to click in the dialog to get curve #2, or you can middle-mouse to advance your selection.

But users are annoyed. Intersction is defined as 2 clicks. Pick one, pick second. Making the user tell NX to go to the next selection is silly. Hopefully this can be changed back to the way it used to work.

 

[JohnRBaker]

The way the dialogs are designed to work in this situation is as follows:

If the first selection step has the option to select one or more objects, then there will NOT be an automatic advance to the next selection step. If the the first step can ONLY be the selection of a single object, then it will advance automatically. And before anyone suggest that we make this an optional behavior, think about the complaints we would receive if a user actually wanted to select more than one object and he was forced to go reselect the first dialog item after each selection (think about what he would see if he needed to pich say FIVE objects and each time he made a selection it auto-advanced). This is why we implemented the 'MB2 - advance to next dialog item' behavior so that you would NOT have to physically move your cursor away from where you were picking to move to the next step. Yes, it's an extra button push, but if the first step did allow for the selection of multiple objects, can you think of another, MORE convenient way to allow BOTH the selection of multiple objects and still make it easy to move to the next step in the dialog once you've finished selecting all of the objects desired in the first step?

Now there may be situations where the above described behavior does not work this way, and if it's any function that uses the newere 'block-based' dialogs (the ones with sections that can be collapsed and expanded) then please let us know by contacting GTAC and having them open an IR/PR since if a selection step is limited to only selecting a single object if should auto-advance to the next logical step, unless of course it was already the last step in the dialog, in the required sequence of selections and option setting.

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