Create diameter dimension in sketch?
Create diameter dimension in sketch?
(OP)
For the Pro/E users who've switched to UGNX5. Is it possible to make a diameter dimension in UG sketcher? In Pro/E you could drop a centerline, drop a sketch line parallel to it, click the centerline, click the line and then click the centerline again, creating a diameter dimension.
Thanks...
Thanks...
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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer





RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
More brain retraining required.
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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
You could define your centerline (draw it, or use a Datum Axis that helps define the sketch), make it reference if you draw it, then mirror your sketch about that centerline and make the mirrored side reference curves as well. Just use horiz. or vert. dimensions and dimension between the 2 halves. We do this quite a bit designing wheels. Might be a bit more challenging if your centerline is not related to the Datums defining your sketch.
Tim Flater
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RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
I understand the power of expressions. However, I could just modify the diameter dimension in my drawing and edit it there as well or just double click the feature and edit it there.
Where is the class "UGNX5 for the Former Pro/E User"? I need that class. It may clear up a lot of questions I have. Today I'm busy adding dimensions to features in a drawing. I already put the info into the feature/sketches. In Pro/E, I'd just "show" them. I'd also be able to use the drawing to back drive my model. I'm not finding how to do that in UG either. I know at one time you mentioned I could show my dims in UG but I'm not finding how to do that.
Now I'm just complaining....
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Fighter Pilot
Manufacturing Engineer
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
The advantage Pro has when 'showing' feature dimensions in a drawing is that you can click right on the part feature in the drawing view and preview the dimensions intrinsic to that feature and select only those you are interested in.
With NX, you are shown a table with all the model parameters in it, and you have to somehow know ahead of time which parameter is associated with which feature. My models have thousands of dimensions, so it's not a very practical way of showing dimensions. This isn't a training issue, it just is one area where I'd like to see NX show more graphical ineraction.
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
Here, here, and I'm not a pro/e user either but this is still something I would like to see work better. (not the diameter dimensioning, but the showing of editable feature params on drawings)
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
After we got that reaction, we decided that perhaps it would be a waste to expend any future resources enhancing this if our largest customers had already told us that it would never be 'appreciated' by any of their users (and perhaps even their suppliers if they had their way). Now we've never taken a survey, but I suspect that there may be other customers who have similar attitudes and have availed themselves of this 'option' as the variable is fully documented in the 'ugii_env.dat' file.
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
Concerning your sketch question, you got some replies the last time in thread561-213151: Pro/E user attempting switch to UGNX. I agree that a diameter dimension in a sketch should be an easy thing. This thread and the previous one give some decent work arounds for now.
RE: Create diameter dimension in sketch?
And I can also report that it isn't just NX that doesn't automatically support an extra function to perform the simple trick of division and multiplication by 2 that it takes to recognise a diameter and a radius or vice versa. I think you'll find the each different CAD system deals with it differently.
I suspect that the reason that such a class is diffiuclt to find is that the former Pro-E users would probably expect an NX user to teach the class and therein lies a difficulty in finding such a person prepared to put up with constant cries "Why doesn't NX do it just like Pro-E?"
I think that new to NX users need to accept that there are two perfectly good ways to achieve this simple result and enjoy the experience of using either or both.
Cheers
Hudson