Customer Defaults - drawings
Customer Defaults - drawings
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I am new to U/G and am having difficulty in finding "customer defaults" for drawings. I would like my drawings to open up with a white background instead of black. Also I want dimensioned angles to decimal and 2 places. I know how to set the preferences but can't seem to find it in customer defaults. I am using NX3.
Thank you,
Vince Smith
Thank you,
Vince Smith





RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
To change your angular dimension settings, go to Preferences -> Anotation -> Units.
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
You can try this:
file/utilities/customer defaults
then go to gateway/visualization click on the color settings tab and toggle on monochrome drawing display.
4 rows down you can see background and you can set it by clicking on color rectangle and selecting the desired color.
while in customer defaults go to drafting/annotation click on the units tab and play again with decimal point character and angular dimensions
hope this helped
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"...standards are great because they give nonconformists something to not conform to..."
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Penkov, Peter I.
Non-standard Equipment Designer
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
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kukelyk
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
It will work for the newly created part files.
NX has to be restarted for to aplly the changes in customer defaults also.
When I'm working with older files I have to hit the load all defaults button too. But you can do this in the beginning- when open such a file go to preferences/annotation (view) (view label) (or whatever you need) and load the defaults.
In this case you will not have to load the defaults for every new dimension/annotation/view or whatever you want to create.
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"...standards are great because they give nonconformists something to not conform to..."
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Penkov, Peter I.
Non-standard Equipment Designer
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
You may want to try using a Seed File for your drawings. Create an empty drawing and set all your dimension and annotation preferences for dim placement arrow types and all others and save the part. Then you can create a macro called A_new_drawing that opens this part and saves it as new_draw.prt.
If you run this macro in the future the macro will stop when it does the save because new_draw.prt exists and then you can enter the new drawing name.
I'm not sure how defaults file editing works with NX3 but The method I described works fine with NX.
Michael
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
RE: Customer Defaults - drawings
If you use master model (as you really should be doing in almost all cases), then you will need to use the non-master drawing template, also edited as above. You need to have a model open already, and it will be added as a component of the new drawing. Again, re-naming is done automatically at save time. I hope that helps a bit.
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