- [Instructor] Status and cue lines.
When you're first getting into NX,
it's really important you pay attention
to the status and cue lines.
You can basically get pretty much anything
that you need to fulfill a command
or requirements for said command
with the status and cue lines.
Now, by default, they are docked at the bottom.
Some places they may pull this up and dock it at the top.
So you have options there of where you wanna place it.
Now, as far as what you currently see in the status line,
it says select objects and use MB3 or double-click an object
so what this is basically telling you is,
if I come in and wanna pick something
with the first mouse button, if I pick,
you'll notice that I get different options
based off of what I'm picking, how I'm picking,
where I'm picking.
Now, if I come over here and right mouse click
over something I get a different set of commands.
The status line is telling me, pick something.
What do you wanna do with that object
that you just selected?
Now, once I have something picked,
so, for example, if I come over here and I pick this ear,
you'll notice, in the cue line, it's telling me
there's pattern geometry, circular,
this is the eighth object in timestamp
and it is selected.
So this is telling you what you've just done.
If I come in and select a feature to create,
let's say extrude, you'll see select starting string
or select section geometry
and once I've specified my selection geometry,
whatever that may be like in this case
if I pick this phase you'll see it goes
to the next object and then the status line
is prompting you for the next object, so on and so forth.
In this case, I'm just gonna hit cancel.
Soon as I hit cancel, I'm just gonna cancel again,
you'll notice that the status line, once again,
refreshes and goes back to its original.
Now, as a note, some CAD systems keep a running history
of your status and cue line interactions or a prompt,
NX doesn't so it's basically at the moment.
What I'm looking at, what I'm doing is at the moment
so pay attention to that status line,
pay attention to the cue line.
Once you've been using NX for quite a while
you'll probably start ignoring it like everyone else
and, eventually, you're going to go, hey,
I forgot how to do something and, boom,
just like that, right at the bottom,
all the instructions that you need
are there to fulfill whatever tool,
whatever function, whatever NX is asking you about
to fulfill said function.
So don't forget it, use it, get very comfortable with
that status and cue line, it's the way NX talks to you
and it's just something that, like I said,
a lot of times people forget it's there
and they can answer their own questions
by just looking down at the bottom of their screen.