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asterisk If you ever want the name of an bitmap you see in an NX dialog, temporarily set the environment variable PRINT_DIALOG_BITMAP_NAMES=1, which records them in the syslog. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

I would look at the menuscript documentation in the programming help, or take a look at this document available online. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

Why are you using blank distance? This looks like it is milled from a block, so you should use geometry or an auto block. Are you specifying it in the operation or the geometry parent? Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

This is a legacy drilling (point to point) operation. I would look at the hole making operations Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

I would look in the syslog to see what is being loaded when you select the Settings button. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

In Non Cutting Moves, can you set the Transfer/Rapid Clearance Option to Cylinder or Bounding Cylinder? Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

I would look at the associative and create geometry options, if they are there in NX8. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

Save the IPW, which creates a facet body, then convert the facet body to convergent. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

You idea to move from macros to journals is good. Users should not need an author license to run a journal - only the licenses for the functionality used by the journal. For more information, I suggest looking at the samples in the UGOPEN folder, searching the knowledge base in TAC (formerly...

As you learned, the problem was not destroying the builder. It helps me to think of the builder like a dialog in the UI. Commit is like Apply, and Destroy is like closing the dialog. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

There are a couple samples to access the part history in the GTAC solution Center Link If you want the modified date of the .prt file, in native there is likely a vb command to get the information from windows. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

You can manually copy the files to your postprocesor folder, and edit the template_post.dat file. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

I don't believe unsupported versions are available for download anymore. You would need to make a request through GTAC, if you are under maintenance. Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

What operation are you using - TUBE_FINISH? Mark Rief NX CAM Customer Success Siemens PLM Software

What does the log file say for Server Setting Used? You probably have a node locked license, so there is no bundle selection. I'm not sure what you want to do here. If you want the other drive method options, you need a license that includes them. Please contact GTAC or your reseller, to...