Emphasize your Sketch

With the help of "Dim objects off work plane" option, you can have your out-of-the-sketch-plane objects look dimmed.

It's hidden under the Utility toolbar.

Once you get used to this setting, you'll find your previous experience with sketches to be way too colorful.

AutoSave.. for NX ?

"If i had a penny each time somebody complained about autosave in NX.." By Richard FullConstrain.

Well, of course there's not an autosave command in NX. It's quite understandable, though; think about having a huge assembly which you've opened fully, and zoomed in/out of the part. Maybe travelled accross a few applications, drafting, modeling, etc. Then your autosave period has ended, and the application decided it should save the work part.. for nothing at all, causing lots of cpu power to be lost, making the world a hotter place to live.


No worries, you could always set a 'save reminder'.

Here's how : Customer defaults - Gateway - Part - Interval for Save Changes Reminder

Naah, forget about 'autosave' Richard, NX will remind you to save often instead.

Enabling the Reuse Library

There's a hidden standard parts library (or a 'reuse library', with some polished words and GUI) within NX5. You need to enable a Customer Defaults setting to be able to use this.

• Customer Defaults - Gateway - Reuse Library - General - Display Reuse Library
  (You might want to turn on the option under Teamcenter category also, if you're running in NX Manager mode as well)

It's hard to say this is a complete part library as an out of the box solution, but can be extended to the user's needs quite easily. I'm guessing this might be the reason Reuse Library is not shown to the end user by default.

Extruding faces - the way it was before NX4

As most oldskool NX users out there, you might have found the new ability to sketch on planar faces quite annoying. There's a way to revert this behavior: (actually there's two)

• Before selecting the planar face, make sure you've selected 'Face Edges' as your Selection Intent.
• Or, you can disable the following setting in Customer Defaults : Modeling - General - Miscellaneous - Automatically Sketch on Planar Faces