Drafting for Effective Use
Drafting for Effective Use
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We are switching from NX2 to NX5.
There is an effective drafting workflow in NX2 using pattern / german ~UG Tools. In uganswer I've read that patterns will not continued in developement or enhanced... like grip.
What are the altenative to use pattern for a central drawingsheet. At the time we have problems in Nx5 with the text alignment in pattern using attributes.
some ideas? How to replace patterns?
There is an effective drafting workflow in NX2 using pattern / german ~UG Tools. In uganswer I've read that patterns will not continued in developement or enhanced... like grip.
What are the altenative to use pattern for a central drawingsheet. At the time we have problems in Nx5 with the text alignment in pattern using attributes.
some ideas? How to replace patterns?





RE: Drafting for Effective Use
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Drafting for Effective Use
What I've done is create drawing borders using Customer Symbols. Attached is an example Drawing Template file which includes a typical symbol in which I've embedded text objects linked to attribute values. Just fill in the values of the attributes and they show-up in the drawing. Note that the Drawing Template file also has predefined views and a parts list.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Drafting for Effective Use
but....
Problem:
I have inserted values in the attributes but the sheet /symbollib only updates /shown after I have moved the symbollib... is there a setting ?
With pattern my company drawing is left on the server.
Now like UGS
thx in ad
RE: Drafting for Effective Use
And for the record, we are not necessarily recommending that you use Custom Symbols for this task, just that it does work quite well for those who have decided to do so (and who were not concerned about 'global update' issues), nor does anyone expect that they are a 'replacement' for Patterns, which is one reason why Patterns are still supported. However, we do not want to invest anything in terms of enhancing them since they are based on a very old architectural scheme which while it still works, is not what we would like to build a next generation solution on. Note that while I don't have any details as to when and what the replacement will be like exactly, we are aware that we need to develop something along these lines and there is an R&D effort working toward that goal, just that I have nothing to share with anyone at this time.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Drafting for Effective Use
Best regards
Hudson