Centering Selected Component in Tree 1

[ChaseWichert]

NX 7.5

Is there a way that when you select a component in modeling space that it will automatically highlight and center the assembly navigator on that component?

 

[JohnRBaker]

As I said, in NX 8.5 it can be launched with one extra action, think of this as the 'ON' button, and once you're finished, selecting the 'Esc' key will turn it 'OFF'.

That being said, even without waiting for NX 8.5, you could go into Customize today (in NX 7.5) and add a shortcut or 'Hot-Key' to the...

Tools -> Assembly Navigator -> Find Selected Component...

...menu item whereby making THAT 'Hot-Key' in essence your 'ON' button and the 'Esc' key would be your 'OFF' button. How does that sound?

To test this, using NX 7.5, I went into...

Tools -> Customize...

...selected the 'Keyboard' button at the bottom of the Customize dialog, and then in the 'Categories:' section of the dialog I navigated down to Tools -> Assembly Navigator and then in the 'Commands:' section I found and selected Find Selected Components.... I then in the 'Press new shortcut key:' entry I entered the letter 'c'. I then changed the 'Use new shortcut in:' to 'Application Only' and then hit the 'Assign' button. Then I closed this dialog and then the Customize dialog.

Now all I have to do is press the 'c' key and the 'Find Component' dialog opens and I'm good to go. Then I just press the 'Esc' key to close the dialog.

Note that to save this change to the user interface so that it will never be lost, you will need to resave your current Role.

For now, I can't make it any simpler than that.

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[capnhook]

I can see the preference for the requested behavior when a user has two screens going.

Brand "c" acts this way OOTB.

Can 8.X do it the way ChaseWichert prefers, or not?




Short answer, please.

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[JohnRBaker]

I've already provided him (and anyone else who's interested) with a solution that can implemented today (without having to wait to install NX 8.5) by performing a 1 minute customize session as I described yesterday at 16:27. If that's not acceptable I don't know what would be.

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[ChaseWichert]

Yes you did. However, you did not 'simply' answer his question. I think what would be acceptable to capnhook is a 'yes' or 'no'. Your comments about NX 8.5 could be interpreted in many different ways, especially to those of us that don't use it or are not familiar with it, and never actually answered my question of

So what you are saying is that you select a component, then open the dialog and it will find the component in the navigator? And while that dialog is open it will find other components that you click on as well. I assume individually and won't find multiple components at the same time. So if that is correct, my question is, why even have the dialog? Why not just an on/off button?

You just told me what you said.

When I want to find a component I have no interest in simply finding it and being done, I want to find it and modify something, then I want to move to another one and modify that one. You have been doing a lot of good suggesting of ways to do what we want, but not actually answering if what I asked can just be done. However, based on all of your defensive posts I am assuming that it can't be done how I asked.

Back when I asked

So, there is no way to have it automatically find in navigator when a component is selected?

A simple 'no that can't be done', would have been sufficient rather than trying to make it seem like what I was asking is completely ridiculous. I don't know if you took me asking that question as me attacking NX or whatever, but it wasn't. It was just a simple question that was quickly blown out of proportion.

 

[JohnRBaker]

If it has taken you THIS long to figure out that NO, you CANNOT do what you WANT to do EXACTLY the way that you WANT to do it, you're wasting both your's and my time posting on what is seen by most as a 'HELP SITE'. If all you wanted was a YES or NO answer, well then the answer is NO.

However, what I was attempting to do from my first post onward was to offer you WAYS to accomplish basically what you wanted to do in a manner that WAS supported by the software, as well as to inform you, and others, as to how this might change in the latest release, in this case NX 8.5, which has been available for several months now.

As for making what you asked for sound "ridiculous", that was only apparent after you refused to accept that what was already possible could provide you with virtually everything that you had asked for. It was your insistence that only a 100% solutions was acceptable is what resulted in what you claim was I becoming "defensive". Up until then I thought I was helping you by pointing out how you could use the software as it was intended to be used. If that was not what you were looking for, help in getting the most out of what you already had, well I'm sorry that I've wasted your time by making you wade through my posts when all you were looking for was an binary response.

If this explanation is too long or not what you were looking for, perhaps you need to look elsewhere for support. And if you think that's a bit harsh or rude on my part, well I've never hidden for whom I work for so you could easily follow-up by contacting my management team. After all, they're very familiar with me and what I do for the company and our customers as I've been with the company for over 32 years, virtually all of it in a role where I interface with customers who are looking for help or more information about how they can use the current capabilities of the software.

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[ChaseWichert]

John, I very much appreciate the help that you have provided to me, and to others that, I have used. You made an assumption that my second question was intended as an 'I don't accept the possible solutions that you and other have provided'. However, I know that questions can be misread, we are all human after all, and I just wanted to make sure that it can't be done like i was asking. That question wasn't answered before I asked again, and I wanted a confirmation, since it wasn't stated, that it isn't possible. I am okay with the answer, no it can't be done like that. But, when suggestions are made without really answering the question asked, it just leaves me to believe that it still might be possible, hence the second question.

 

[ChaseWichert]

I NX

 

[JohnRBaker]

Sorry, I'll try to be more careful next time to clarify what can and what cannot be done out-of-the-box before I start a long thread on how you might get most of what you're looking for with perhaps some compromises. OK?

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[ChaseWichert]

Thanks John. Have a great weekend! And thank you again for the Help.

 

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[ChaseWichert]

Haha. That's awesome.