Color Mapping between NX2 and NX3

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NX3 introduces a new color pallete, Here is the conversion

Prior to NX3 the original 15 UG colors where in the color pallete as 1 -> 15, In NX3 the color pallete is completely redone to use a standard color pallete, which included moving the original 15 colors into the correct location and changing the RGB value to match the standard colors.

Map old color index to new index

NX2	Name	NX3
1	BLUE	211
2	GREEN	36
3	CYAN	31
4	RED	186
5	MAGENTA	181
6	YELLOW	6
7	WHITE	1
8	OLIVE	137
9	PINK	112
10	BROWN	167
11	ORANGE	114
12	PURPLE	202
13	DARK-RED	198
14	AQUAMARINE	100
15	GRAY	130

NX3 ships with two color pallete file ugcolor.cdf and ugcolor_nx2.cdf. These files are located at UGII_BASE_DIR\ugii\

For example: C:\Program Files\UGS\nx3\UGII\ugcolor.cdf -or- ugcolor_nx2.cdf

These files are simple ascii text files with RGB values. When you compare the two files you will notice the values in the NX3 file are rounded to one place decimal value.

Rough Offset

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A new Rough Offset function, Rough fit.

Modeling-> Insert-> Offset/Scale-> Rough Offset

The Rough fit another way to generate an approximate surface topology. I could see this used to create packaging, black box type of deliverables, or even a approximation of area use in an assembly. The Rough fit does not create a high accuracy surface, its use is for approximately defining a set of surfaces. Since this operator does not create tightly accurate surfaces, it is a great fit for bad surfaces. Such as IGES imports, other low quality free form surfaces.

This operator has a preview option (see picture on this post). With the preview you can quickly see if the operation will result in a satisfactory surface and offset value.

The images show the initial part, rough offset of 0 (zero), preview offset of 3, and the final offset value applied.

Multiple Graphics Windows

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Tired of changing views to work on a different area? Or do you need to keep a specific view displayed for reference?

NX3 brings you “Multiple Graphics Windows”. This is only available on the Windows platform and only available within Gateway and Modeling as of NX3, NX4 and beyond will have more application support.
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Radial Pop-ups

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Context menus just aren’t cutting it for you, wish you had icons instead?

As we covered in a previous article, right-click menu’s have been around for some time in NX. The right-click menu is also used as a context menu. This also has been around and has gone through numerous enhancements. In addition to the menu your formiliar with if you hold the button down instead of just clicking it, you’ll be presented with a radial icon pop-up representation of the most commonly used actions. This is in-context to what you are hovered over.

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