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Model View in UG NX - Unigraphics : Model view is the specific orientation of work screen in which the components are displayed. By default the software will contains standard views like front view, back view, left and right side views and isometric views. If an user want to manually add an view with specific orientation for further use , then he can create a new model view. In addition to saving the Orientation information, the model view may also contains the information of which parts or components are displayed in the current model view. To Create a new model view in NX: Go to part navigator section by clicking on the part navigator icon present in the side resource toolbar Orient the Work screen manually as you desired Now, right click on Model View and select Add View A new view will add on the current orientation and you can name it manually by right click - Rename option To Create drawing view in NX: Switch into drafting application using shortcut Ct

To show and Hide the objects type in Work Screen : Select Show and Hide icon in the toolbar section or The keyboard shortcut  Ctrl+W Shows or hides objects by type. To Hide objects from the display : Ctrl+B Makes selected objects invisible in the display. You can also simply select the Hide icon in the toolbar which is grouped along with Show, ShHow and hide icons. To show the hidden or invisible objects:   Ctrl+Shift+K Makes selected objects visible in the display. Or just click the Show icon in the top tool bar section To Invert Show and Hidden Objects : Invert Shown and Hidden Ctrl+Shift+B Reverses the hidden status of all objects on selectable layers. Show All Ctrl+Shift+U Shows all objects on selected layers. Object Display Ctrl+J Modifies the layer, color, font, width, grid count, translucency, shading, and analysis display status of objects. Layer Settings Ctrl+L Sets the work layer, visible and invisible layers, and defines category name

Object Display Settings in UG NX : In Unigraphics UG NX , in order to change the color of objects and fonts of letters, labels, annotations and to work with layers, we have to customize the parameters in object display settings. Using keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+J Sets preferences such as layer, color, and font for new objects or we can choose the command using Edit - Object display settings. Object Selection Behaviors in UG NX : Selection Ctrl+Shift+T Sets objects selection behaviors such as highlighting, QuickPick delay, and selection ball size (cursor size) Customizing Toolbar, Menu bar : The shortcut command for customization is  Ctrl+1 which Customizes menu, toolbar, icon size, screen hint, position of pointer and status line, save and role load etc. We can also get this option by right clicking on the toolbar and selecting customize option. After finding the desired command in the list, just drag and drop to the tool bar to avail it in front of your eyes

Expressions in UG NX: In UG you can create expressions in Sketching dimensions and assembly constraints to control the Geometry shape or location using specific equations . To start using Expressions you can use the shortcut   Ctrl+E which provides the list options for creating and modifying expressions. Journal and Macro Files in UG NX: If you want to repeat a set of tasks frequently, then you can go for macros and journal options to record a process and you can play or execute whenever it is necessary. To play a Journal - Play Alt+F8 Plays back an existing journal file. To edit a Journal file  - Edit Alt+F11 Edits any existing journal file. To record a Macro use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R which start to Record an interactive NX session into a macro file. To play a Macro that is already created use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P which plays back an existing macro file. To examine a Macro step by step  press Ctrl+Shift+S which enable you to examine the intera

Unigraphics UG NX allows us to work on a list of different kind of environments like CAD modeling,, Drafting, FEA simulation, Assemblies, Sheet metal, Shape studio, Manufacturing , Flexible Printed circuit design etc. In order to switch from one application to other you can either choose the desired application in the drop down list at the top left corner of the screen which is named as Start . Else you can use the following list of keyboard shortcuts to choose the application. Ensure that you have the desired UG applications installed in the package , before trying these shortcuts. Shortcuts for Switching Applications in UG NX Unigraphics To switch to Modeling press Ctrl+M . Sometimes simply pressing M will work. In order to enable tools related to assemble, use the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A .If you again use the same shortcut it will turnoff the assembly options from the screen. To start the Drafting application use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+D  To work in sheet

To add text word in Japanese in UG NX Drafting : Before trying to include Japanese text in UG NX Drafting sheet, just ensure that whether the Japanese font Kanji is installed in your computer or laptop. If not you can manually install the font in to the computer program files. Method 1: Once you installed the Japanese font in the computer open UG NX Drafting module. Select Insert note option or you can also go to Insert - Note  command Now in the form that appears , expand settings and select style In lettering tab, choose font type in the drop down list as Ideas kanji Now Click OK and type the letters in the editor in Japanese language. Method 2 : If you want to include Japanese words in between English fonts , then use this method. In text editor , Expand Text Input - Formatting and select the font type as Ideas Kanji Now a format like <F14>Enter Text<F> will appear Type the Japanese font in between the F syntax. The letters you type outsi

In UG NX modeling , Sometimes while working with free form surfacing or some experimental and trial design proposals we may not need history nodes for every features we create. Even the lengthy history nodes will increase the size of the file unnecessarily and in turn affects the performance of the software. So, at such times when we don't need to maintain proper history tree in UG NX Unigraphics we can work in history free mode. The illustrated methods is applicable in NX 7.5 , NX8, NX , NX 9.5 and above There are two methods to remove history of a component in UG NX Clear History using Remove Feature Parameters Option Open the Part Navigator section and select all the history nodes using Shift+select method. Go to Edit - Feature - Remove Parameters You will see a warning called "This operation removes parameters from all selected objects." Press OK The parameters of selected history nodes only will be removed in this method. Delete History

Command : Orient , Define WCS (Work Coordinate System)  or Orient Sketch Plane Short Description : This tool is very much helpful to reorient the WCS to new coordinate system or new desired plane surface/face. What is WCS in NX ? In NX, WCS refers to Work Coordinate system. WCS is useful to select the plane or face while sketching the curves. The user has to orient the WCS in desired plane or face in prior to sketch the section of curves. How to Reorient face or plane as Sketch plane in UG NX Unigraphics : By default the WCS would be aligned with Absolute coordinate system. If you want to sketch in different plane or if you want to sketch in different face then while selecting those plane or surface while sketching , automatically the WCS will be oriented to the selected face. But sometimes, you might not get the desired orientation through this automatic orientation. At this time, we can manually orient the sketch plane using following steps. Ensu

VIEW DEPENDENT EDIT IN UG NX View dependent edit in drafting module is used to edit the display of objects in the selected view without affecting the display of same objects in other view. In Ideas NX, we can hide the display of curves very easily and we can have more control on the display of curves. How to Erase/ Delete curves or objects in Particular view in UG : In UG NX Drafting model, if we want to delete curves in any particular view, then we have to use view dependent edit option. Select the View Boundary . Right click and choose View Dependent Edit In Add Edits section click on Erase objects. Now select the curves, objects that you want to erase from this view and press OK You can bring back these erased curves by using delete edits option in the same window. This option would be very efficient when the views are in Associative mode. But if the view is in Non associative or Extracted edges - None mode, then we can directly pick the curves and delet

Crosshatching command is used to create patterns of lines within specified boundary in NX in order to differentiate different regions displayed in drawing view for clear illustration. How to Crosshatch in NX : Ensure that you are in Drafting application. Now, Go to Insert - Annotation and Select Crosshatch If you repeatedly using this function, then you can keep it in the main toolbar for ease of use. Now , a Crosshatch window will appear which shows a set of required parameters to complete the cross hatch. You can either use point in Region or Boundary curves as Selection mode. Boundary curve method is the most preferred one as it has more control over the selection of desired region. After selecting the boundary curves, select pattern for crosshatching , distance , angle, color and width After completing all the necessary parameters , press Apply or OK to complete the cross hatch. To delete cross hatch in NX 7.5 , NX 8, NX 9 and NX 10 etc, just select the cross

Cross hatching: Cross Hatching is a method of creating specific patterns inside a specific boundary inorder to differentiate the boundaries. Cross hatching is mainly used in drawing representations and it is done following some standards like Angle of lines, width, Gap between lines etc. Types of Cross Hatching Pattern and their applications , representations : Iron or General use - Lines in 45' angle with equal gap in between them Steel - double lines in 45' with equal gap between each double line Brass/Copper - Lines in 45' with equal gap but alternatively breaking lines will be present Rubber/Plastic -Four lines and equal gap followed by four lines in 45' angle Refractory - One Breaking line between two lines in 45' with equal gaps Marble/Slate/Glass - Breaking lines with equal gap in 45' Lead -Wired pattern of lines Aluminum/Magnesium - pattern of lines with thin and breaking lines at each side Electrical winding -Similar to lead b

To cut the Relation | Associativity of drowning from 3D CAD models There are three types of options available to maintain the associativity links of the drawing views with the 3D models. Associative (Always associative) Non Associative (Non associative but you can link whenever you need to update the drawing view Extracted Edges (None) (Association completely removed from the 3D model. Procedure to break the associativity of drawing view Right Click on a view boundary and select Style Now go to General Tab In extracted edges option Select - Non Associative Press OK In this case, the drawing view will not update or shows update notification even if the 3D data is affected or updated. But you can manually update by changing back Extracted edges to Associative and again you can keep it as Non associative . If you keep the extracted edges as Associative, then the drawing will update immediately ( If you disable Delay update in settings) Otherwise, it will sh

To Tilt the text characters which is written using text editor option, we can use italic option to tilt the text in Unigraphics NX Drafting and Annotation. On the other hand,  if we want to tilt the text or dimension values that is added using dimensions options, then use the following procedure. Right click on the text or dimension Click Style Now an Annotation style dialogue will appear. Change Lettering Angle as desired and press OK to tilt the text or dimension valuse. We can also get the Annotation style dialogue by Clicking Edit - Style on the menu bar.

Operation : Open New UG file Shortcut: Press Ctrl + N or Go to File- New or Press the new file Icon in the tool bar Operation: To open already existing file like prt, iges, step or fem,sim files Shortcut: Press Ctrl + O or File - open or Press the open file icon in the tool bar Operation : To save the work part and modified files Shortcut: Press Ctrl+S to save the work part and modified files Or If you press Ctrl+S+A it will save all parts that are currently opened. You can also select File - Save all to perform the operation Operation: To Print or Plot Shortcut: Press Ctrl+P to create plot data files and plots them and send the plot to the plotter machine or a file with specific format like tiff , jpeg image etc. To Send the data to Printer , go to File - Print Operation : To Run a Grip program or Debug GRIP Program Shortcut : Press GRIP Ctrl+G Run a GRIP program and to debug GRIP Press Ctrl+Shift+G which in turn runs a GRIP program in debug mode. You

Operation : Pan / Move Shortcut: To Move the display Press MB1 and MB2 at same time and move the mouse. or Hold F1 key and move the mouse to move the display. Operation : Zoom In or Zoom Out Shortcut:  Scroll mouse button upward to Zoom in and Scroll mouse Button downwards to Zoom out the display or You can Press F2 and at the same time move the mouse to zoom in or zoom out the display. or Just draw a imaginary rectangle in specific area by holding F6 Key Operation : Rotate Shortcut:  Press  MB2 and move the  mouse to rotate the display. Otherwise you can Press F3 and move the mouse to rotate the display. Operation : Align nearest View Shortcut: Press F4 will result the display to automatically orient to the nearest possible view like front,back, side or Isometric view etc. Operation : To change or set the   center of rotation point Shortcut: Just place the cursor a desired point and Press C and select any point on the CAD surface to change or set the ro

Find Unsew Edges ,Free Edges | UG NX If you convert,sew a sheet metal body into solid body, then you have to check whether the body has any free boundaries or not .   We can check the free edges using following procedure. Make sure that you are active in UG NX Modeling application In Menu bar , select Analysis - Examine Geometry  Now Examine Geometry dialog will appear Select sheet bodies you wish to check for objects to investigate.  Check (Enable tick mark) on Sheet Boundaries for Body Checks Now click Actions - Examine Geometry. If any free edges are present, a check box of Highlight Results appears. You can Check on Highlight Results to highlight the place of error in specific color.

Replace dimension text in UG Sometimes, we would be in need of hiding the actual/original dimension of a component and replace it with a desired value. By default, there is no option to replace or hide the actual dimension in NX.. Follow the procedure to hide the original dimension and add your desired dimension manually. Select the dimension value that you need to replace in UG NX Drafting module. Now, Right click the dimension and choose Append text A text editor opens now. Type the desired value to be displayed.Give OK Now we have to hide the original dimension. Select the dimension, Go to style. In lettering tab, select lettering type as Dimensions. Change the character size from 3 to 0.0001 Press OK Now, you will see only the manual values that you have entered in Append text editor. So, as summarizing the trick is reduce the font size to very small so no one can see it but actually it is there. Alternate method: Right click dimension → Settings → Text

Change Cursor shape in Unigraphics If you have worked in I-deas NX prior to UG NX, then you might feel something odd while working with its new cursor display which has a combination of cross symbol combined with cirle symbol. You cannot completely remove the circle symbol , but reduce its size to very minimum. At the same time, if you want to increase the circular area , you can do it easily. The UG NX customer survey team reported that reduction of the circle size decreases the overall productivity of the user. Because ,the circle simply indicates the region of selection and if you reduce it , you have to concentrate more to select an object which in turn reduce your productivity. Anyway, you can make a try to work without the circle symbol in cursor using the following procedure. Open UG NX software Go to Preferences - Selection in the menu bar Now a settings form called Selection Preferences opens which contains a set of options Look for Cursor In cursor sect

Frequency Response Analysis : In Unigraphics (UG NX) Advanced simulation FEA, we can simulate Frequency Response Simulation based on modal analysis results. The steps for performing a Frequency response simulation are as follows : Prepare FEA model with Proper material, Boundary conditions etc For restraints use Fixed restrain and Apply Enforced motion location at the desired points or nodes For Solution type: Choose SEMFREQ 111 Subcase to solve : Modal Frequency After solving for the solution set, now we have to create a response simulation . Right click on the part.sim , Go to New Solution Process: Response Simulation Right click and create New Evento Go to Event manager in Tools to create New Event Function Tools: To create a frequency function of type General- Spectrum Now for an event, select the enforced motion and for that enforced motion apply the function you have created. After creating a Frequency event, now Right click and choose Evaluate Contour res

Display Zero after , before dimension Value in UG NX Drafting : In UG NX Drafting, even if we set to display the decimal places for dimensions, it wont display the trailing zeroes if the dimension is exactly like 14.500 , 20.30 etc. At such case, we need to enable one additional settings to make visible the trailing zeroes. This article helps you , how to easily show the zeroes after and before decimal places. Select the dimension . Right click , Go to Style In dimension tab, precision and tolerance section, choose the number of decimal places you want to display. (example : 3) In Units tab, Under There will be a title called Zeros display with three options. Enable Trailing Zeros - Dimensions and Tolerances, Leading zeros-Dimensions , Tolerances. You can disable any of the three if you don't need it. Press OK Now the dimension will be displayed with zeros before and after the dimension values. If you want to make all the dimensions with similar appearance,