UG NX: File structure and basic terms in UG NX

File structure and basic terms in UG:

• The components, Assembly and drawings that we create in UG NX are stored in the extension with .prt
• The finite element model (mesh model) that we create in Advanced simulated module are stored in the extension .fem
• The simulation file (With boundary conditions and results) will be stored as .sim extension.
• And the sub assembly and components used in an Assembly are stored as separate prt files. So, we have to call, load all sub assembly components when we are working in an assembly.

Basic Terms and definitions:

It will be easier to work with the software if we are familiar with the following terms and definitions :

1.Component :
Component denotes a individual part . In some software, it is called as part. In UG we call it as components.
Example : If you are modeling a Fan. The whole set up is called as FAN assembly. Individual parts like Fan wing, Motor, Bolts, Nuts are called as components.

2.Solid Body: 
A component may consists of one or more closed surface groups called as solid bodies. If you have to calculate properties like mass, volume then it should be a closed surfaces ( solid bodies)
Sheet Body: If the component consists of opened ended surfaces, then they can be categorized as Sheet body.
Faceted body: Faceted body is a kind of light weight surfaces which do not contains any history of how the component is created.

3.Edge : The meeting point of two surfaces is called as Edge

4.Face: Surfaces are called as face in UG NX. A component consists of more face. For example, a cube consists of six faces.

5.Curves : Curves are the basic elements to build a 2D sketch. The curve may be a line, arc, circle, ellipse, spline etc.

6.Feature: Feature is a certain operation performed to build a component. Many features make a complete component. For example Extrude, Rrvolve, extend, trim are called as features.

MS Excel : TroubleShoot: Not able to merge cells in Excel

This article helps you to merge cells in Excel by troubleshooting the Error.

While working in excel file, if the Merge and centre option is disabled or if the software shows error like cannot merge the selected cells, then we have to troubleshoot using the following technique.

Error: Not able to merge cells in a shared workbook

Cause : Your Excel workbook may be in Shared status.

Reason: If someone merged the cells in a Excel file which is in shared status, then it may result in conflict if two or more people work on the same cells at a time. So, Smart minds of Microsoft decided to disable this Merge and center option while the Excel Workbook is shared status.



Troubleshoot :

• First Ensure no body is currently opened and working in this Excel WorkSheet . 
• You can check this by clicking Review - Share Workbook. 
• The window opened now should show only your name in the list. If anybody opened that excel workbook, ask him to save and close the file.
• Now Uncheck the option Allow changes by more than one user at the same time and Press Click OK
• Now a pop up will be shown that file will be automatically saved. Press OK.

We are done. Now you will be able to merge the cells .

Once you are done with the merging the cells process, save the file and again go to Review - Share workbook. So that , other people can work on the file at the same time you are working here.

Whatsapp : Change Notification Tone | Vibration | Light Notification

This article will explain how to change the notification alerts for whatsapp messages.
There are three types of notification alerts namely Message sound alert, Vibration alert, LED light notification.

For messages from Individual contacts :

• Go to Settings - notifications
• Now you can see a list of settings like following.
• Notification tone: in which you can choose your desired ringtone stored in your mobile phone storage or in memory card storage
• Vibration alert: in which you can set whether the vibration alert should be on or off for while receiving messages from individual contacts.
• Popup notification : If you don't want to receive a popup notification which is shown in the home screen, then you can customize using this setting.
• Light notification : If your smartphone has LED notification lights, you can customize the color of whats-app notification when you receive whats app messages.

Group messages notification:

• Notification tone in which you can choose your desired ringtome stored in your mobile phone storage or in memory card storage
• Vibration tone:  in which you can set whether the vibration alert should be on or off for while recieving messages from group messages
• Light notification:If you dont want to recieve a popup notification which is shown in the home screen, then you can customize using this setting.
• Popup notification:If your smartphone has LED notification lights, you can customize the color of whatsapp notification when you recieve whats app group messages.

Google Chrome : Reduce Data usage in Chrome mobile browser

In some countries, Internet data tariff is very high which some times go beyond the budget of the user.



To overcome this, Google chrome has recently came up with a new option called "Reduce Data Usage".Initially the option is introduced only in Chrome Beta version for mobile phones. Now the option has been introduced in standard version too.

How to enable this Reduce Data Usage Option :

• Open Google Chrome Browser in your mobile.
• Tap the menu button of your smartphone that shows the list of menu.
• Choose settings - Reduce Data Usage
• Swap the Option to ON which will be intially in OFF status.

We are done. You can monitor anytime, how much data is reduced while you are browsing in Google Chrome Browser.



How this Data Reduction Works :

Usually, websites will contain Images with high quality for enhanced viewing in desktop , laptop like big screens.

If we are visiting those websites using mobile phones, it is sufficient if the image size is small enough to our mobile screen. So Google reduces sizes of such images suitable to mobile phone screens which results in enormous reduction in data usage and also increase the website speed considerably.

Note: 

This data compression will not work for viewing videos in Chrome browser. So, It is better to view videos in YouTube as Youtube has excellent video compressing technology.

NX: Modeler error : Please report Fault in NX Unigraphics

Troubleshoot: NX: Modeler error : Please report Fault:

This is considered to be one of the worst error of UG NX 7.0 , UG NX 7.5 , UG NX 8.0

Causes:
The error can be experienced in following cases:
1.While working in Drafting module, you can get this modeler error if you are trying to create a base view
2.While trying to load components in assembly
3.While doing some Analysis operation like mass calculation, Inertia, CG calculation etc



Reason for this Modeler Error:
The error will appear only when some of the surfaces or solid, sheet bodies are not proper in a specific component

Troubleshoot:
Here is the trouble shooting process:

1.First you have to spot out in which component, these corrupted surfaces exists. So, if you have a  big assembly consisting 10 parts , load 5 parts and make the operation (like creating a view, calculating mass etc). Then load remaining 5 parts. Now you can spot, which half has the corrupted surface. Among the half with error, eliminate another half. Finally you can find the corrupted part in this technique.

2.Inside the part you have to find the corrupted surface. This can be done by the same method said in step 1. In history tree, find out the corrupted face using the same method explained in step 1.

3. Finally you may delete that corrupted face and create a new one to avoid this modeler error.

You can also try model clean up options to rectify such small surfaces.

NX Drafting: Change Colored Drawing into Black and White Monochrome Display in Unigraphics NX

If you want to change the Drawing sheet to black in UG NX, Go to Preferences → Visualisation → Background → Choose Black Color. You can choose whatever color you wish.

If you want to make the drawing sheet as Monochrome Display (White Backgroud and Black Lines) , then refer the following procedure.

Those who worked on I-deas and transformed to NX UG would have been certainly felt that , Unigraphics is not as much as powerful like I-deas in handling with huge data particularly those who are working in Drafting of large assembly.

This article will help you to easily convert your large colorful drawing sheet into black and white drawing, which enable you to take pdf or tiff file of the black and white document.

Step 1: Make active , the drawing you have to convert into black and white.
Step 2: Go to Preferences -> Visualization
Step 3: In color tab , Enable Monochrome Display ; By default , show width options would be enabled. You can switch it off as you wish
Step 4: Click OK
Step 5: Now You can see your colorful drawing appears as a black and white drawing.



You can export this drawing into PDF , or plot this drawing as cgm file or direclty send it to printer or plotter connected to your device.

Note:
Usually, people will follow , manually converting all curves and lines using Edit Display options.
It is time consuming and non reversible for large drawings.
So, Using Visulaization settings is easier and effective for Black and white display and at anytime you can switch it back to the color display for the drawing by disabling the Monochrome display option, described in above steps.

Meaning of Up Down Arrows in signal bar | Android Mobile

Have you ever noticed two small arrows on the signal bar of your Android smart phones.
In some of the phones, these arrows will appear very near to the signal bar.



Here is the meaning of those small cute arrows:

Arrow Facing upwards :

It means that data is transferred from your mobile phone into Internet. Yes, you are uploading some information from your phone to Internet. The uploading data might be Small texts that you send on Whatsapp or large video file you are uploading to Facebook.

So now, just check this with the following examples :
1.Enable internet on your phone , Go to google.com and type something. While typing the keyword, you can notice the up arrow will be displayed . It means that the search term is uploaded from your mobile to internet.
2.Upload an Image to Whatsapp. You can observe the up arrow appearing again.

Arrow Facing downwards:
Obviously as you guessed, the down arrow means that you are downloading some data . The data may vary from a "Hi" message in whatsapp to a big torrent file.

So , Hereafter you can easily check whether the data transmission is happening or not , using this two small arrows.

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