Africell : Check Data Balance Validity in Africell | Check MB Balance in Africell Gambia

Africell gGambia Provides variety of data bundles from one month to three month validity.

To check the validity of all the data bundles, Africell have an  USSD code.

Take your Mobile phone and dial *137# for checking the data balance in MB and validity of the data pack.

This USSD code is applicable to check all the data bundles available in Afrircell like

• - 20MB for D12; 50MB for D30; 100MB for D45; 200MB for D90; 500MB for D145; 750MB for D195. (Valid for 30 days)
• - 1GB for D250; 1.5GB for D275; 2GB for D495. (Valid for 45 days)
• - 4GB for D750 and 12GB for D1,650. (Valid for 60 days)

You can also activate these data packs from main talktime balance by dialing *120# from your Africell mobile number. You need to have sufficient talktime balance to activate the data pack

UG NX Shortcut : File Create new, open, Save, Plot

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 can also use Ctrl+U to run an NX Open program. 

UG NX Keyboard shortcut list : Pan,Zoom,Rotate,Refresh,Align, Center of Rotation

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 rotation point.

Operation : Refresh
Shortcut: Press F5 to refresh the screen and erase the display of temporary appeared objects.

Operation : Orient Views
Shortcut:To orient specific views like Front, Back,Top, Left Press Ctrl + Alt+ (F or B or T or L) Respectively for desired view .

Operation : To Render High Quality Screenshot Image
Shortcut: Press Ctrl+Shift+H to render a realistic Picture of the model. 

NX: Find Unsew Edges ,Free Edges | UG NX

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.

1. Make sure that you are active in UG NX Modeling application
2. In Menu bar , select Analysis - Examine Geometry 
3. Now Examine Geometry dialog will appear
4. Select sheet bodies you wish to check for objects to investigate. 
5. Check (Enable tick mark) on Sheet Boundaries for Body Checks
6. Now click Actions - Examine Geometry.
7. If any free edges are present, a check box of Highlight Results appears.
8. You can Check on Highlight Results to highlight the place of error in specific color.

Hide Dimension in UG NX Drafting | Replace Manual Value , Append text to dimension

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.

1. Select the dimension value that you need to replace in UG NX Drafting module.
2. Now, Right click the dimension and choose Append text
3. A text editor opens now. Type the desired value to be displayed.Give OK
4. Now we have to hide the original dimension.
5. Select the dimension, Go to style.
6. In lettering tab, select lettering type as Dimensions. Change the character size from 3 to 0.0001
7. Press OK
8. 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 → Format → Override Text → Delete the value manually

NX: Change mouse Cursor Shape in Unigraphics NX without circle symbol | UG NX

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.

1. Open UG NX software
2. Go to Preferences - Selection in the menu bar
3. Now a settings form called Selection Preferences opens which contains a set of options
4. Look for Cursor
5. In cursor section, choose selection Radius as Small. By default it would be Medium
6. Now give OK

You can now visualize your cursor almost without a circle. (Very small) . It will be very similar to Ideas cursor.But you may find difficulty while selecting the objects.
At any time you can set back to the previous settings using the above mentioned procedure.

Frequency Response Simulation in UG NX Advanced Simulation FEA

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 :

1. Prepare FEA model with Proper material, Boundary conditions etc
2. For restraints use Fixed restrain and Apply Enforced motion location at the desired points or nodes
3. For Solution type: Choose SEMFREQ 111
4. Subcase to solve : Modal Frequency
5. After solving for the solution set, now we have to create a response simulation .
6. Right click on the part.sim , Go to New Solution Process: Response Simulation
7. Right click and create New Evento Go to Event manager in Tools to create New Event
8. Function Tools: To create a frequency function of type General- Spectrum
9. Now for an event, select the enforced motion and for that enforced motion apply the function you have created.
10. After creating a Frequency event, now Right click and choose Evaluate Contour results - Response
11. Choose the desired output you need to obtain and select all the elements of the modal.

The results will be evaluated and the contour will be stored in the results section that can be viewed in Post Processing column.