Yes there is. It's called creating a 'Favorite'. In fact, that's exactly how we created those so-called 'Simple Measurements'. They're actually pared-down (i.e. simplified) versions of the regular Measure Distance/Angle dialogs. In fact you can create favorites of most any NX dialog.
In the case you're asking about, first you need to set-up a user folder, if you haven't already, where you can place templates and modified .men and .tbr files, then once you start creating 'favorites', you'll find a folder there named 'Favorites' and that's where these '.fav' files will be found. Note that the 'User' folder is known to NX by setting the environment variable
UGII_USER_DIR equal to the path with points to where your 'User' folder is located. BTW, if you've set up 'Group' and 'Site' folders, you can also create favorites there as well, making them available to others in your organization as well.
Anyway, what you do for your example it that once you've got your 'User' directory set up, while in NX Modeling go to....
Analysis -> Measure Distance...
...and when the dialog comes up set all of the options in all of the sections exactly the way that you would if you were about make one of those measurements that you say you do often. Now collapse ALL of the sections of the dialog, including 'Measure Type', until the ones which contain red asterisks are still open and available (note that you can include other options as well such as perhaps the 'Display Results' section if there's a chance that you might want to print out the results in the listing window or not). Once you've done this, select the the 'gear' icon in the upper Left corner of the dialog and select the 'Hide Collapsed Groups' option. Now the only things that you'll see are the parts of the dialog that you've decided are relevant. Now go back to the 'Gear' icon only this time select the 'Save Favorite As...' option. You'll first be asked what 'Level' you wish to save it, 'User', 'Group' or 'Site', and then you'll enter a name for the new 'favorite' and then hit OK.
Now that you've got your favorite lets say you wish to add it to the current list of 'Simple Measurements' accessible from the Analysis drop-down menu. Go into Customize and select the 'Command' tab and then near the bottom of the list the 'New Button' item and then from the 'Commands' window, drag the 'New User Command' item up onto the
Analysis -> Measure drop down menu. Now, while still in Customize, select this new command, press MB3 and when the dialog comes up you'll note that you can now edit the name of the command, decide how it appears, as only text or with an icon, etc. But you first need to go to the last item, 'Edit Action', where you can define what happens when a user selects that item, in this case you select in the 'Type' field a 'Favorite' and you'lll be given a list of 'Favorite' files to assign to this new menu item (note that you could of added teh User Command to a tool bar as well). Once you're done, just 'Close' the Customize dialog and you're good to go. Just remember to resave your Role so that these change to your User Interface are remembered.
Anyway, this should give you what you're looking for.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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