3.3 Icon bars

The icon bars of NX are meant to simplify your workflow. With the introduction of NX version 9, the concept of icon bars has been revamped. They are now, like in well established office-systems, grouped in ribbon-tabs, to offer easy access to context dependent functions.

The icon bar Standard offers functions normally accessed via File and Edit. (figure "standard bar")

These functions exist:

Open
Save

Undo
Redo

The icon bar View gives faster access to navigation and view options. These individual functions are also available in the respective menu bar. (figure "view bar")

The navigation icons have the following functions:

Adjusting model size to window size (fit)
zooming in a user-defined rectangle (zoom)
rotating your model (rotate)
panning the displayed area (pan)

The view icons allow you to select:

different views utilising wireframes:
shaded view
views from different directions

With the Filter-Function , you can select specific elements. Adjusting your filter makes all other types of elements unselectable. You can find the filter-function on the upper left below the start-menu. (figure "Filter")

On the left of the screen you can find tabs for viewing assembly structure alt (Assembly Navigator) and model structure alt (Part Navigator). There is also a tab that shows your history alt .

You can adjust number and contents of ribbon tabs individually. To do so, right-click the blue area next to the ribbon tabs and choose Customize... (Strg+1). You can now customize the upper icon bars in the window Customize.

The GUI already contains the icon bars required for this excercise. In modeling mode you will use the icons of modeling. (figure "Modeling")

To switch to Modeling mode, click File -> Modeling (If you are already in modeling, the Option Modeling will be displayed under Preferences in the File menu)

To switch to Drafting mode, click File -> Drafting (figure "Drafting")

In order to permanently save any changes to the menu and icon bars, you have to export them as a file to your user directory (drive H:). To do so, click File -> Preferences -> User Interface or press Strg+2 and save your changes (so called "Role"). (further information in chapter 3.4. Roles)

Attention:

Your tutor might be able to help you faster, if every student uses identical (default) GUIs.