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selectively display sketch component name

selectively display sketch component name

selectively display sketch component name

(OP)
Is there a way to display the name of particular sketch components, outside the sketcher (inside it too?)?

For example, I have a sketch with three lines.  I re-label each line (using the contextual Properties command) from "Line.1" etc to "length", "height", "hypotenuse" or similar.

Can I have the new names appear on the screen next to the line?  (In UG NX3, you'd name the line similarly to CATIA, and then you'd enable "Object Name Display" "In Work View", under "Vizualization Preferences".)

Thanks; sorry if I'm not being clear...

RE: selectively display sketch component name


I think, if I understand correctly, you want to label the object, but the label is automatically generated from the "name" property?




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RE: selectively display sketch component name

(OP)
maybe that's the proper terminology...  how could I do what you've suggested?

RE: selectively display sketch component name

In the tree, you can expand the sketch and then expand the geometry to see all the geometric components which (I believe) will show the re-labeled names.

RE: selectively display sketch component name

(OP)
jackk,
I definitely can view them in the tree as you are suggesting.  OTOH, if it's possible, what I REALLY want is to see the name displayed ("labeled" if thats the right way to say it) next to the actual geometry.

Is it possible?

thanks.

RE: selectively display sketch component name

You can do that in V4, but I've never seen it in V5.

The best way I can think of is to add a text annotation (FTA workbench) on top or near to the geometric element. (I'd use the one that's always normal to the screen) I don't think you can automatically label the text based on the element name, although that can probably be done with a macro or script.

Any special reason why you want to do this? (other than you can do it in NX)

RE: selectively display sketch component name

(OP)
I'll try out using text annotations like you suggested.

My specific reason was I'm working up a couple of engineering diagrams, where it'd be very handy to see the labels of the lines right next to the geometry on the screen.  (And I don't want to go thru the process of making a print per se; I want to just see this in the modeling workbench, on the fly.)

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