shaded drawing view
shaded drawing view
(OP)
Lately I've been including what is basically a shaded ISO view of my part in my drawings. I modify the view and change the Shaded setting to Fully Shaded or whatever it is. I then turn off the lines in the view through View Dependent Edit. The problem occurs when I make a PDF. The lines that I turned off, and which aren't on the drawing on the screen, are mysteriously there in the PDF. I have gotten it to work correctly once, but the majority of the time some or all of the lines show up in the PDF even though they are turned off in the drawing. This is NX5.
Anybody have this problem? Or can give me some idea of what may be wrong? Restarting the session, which usually works for me on other oddities, doesn't work for this.
Anybody have this problem? Or can give me some idea of what may be wrong? Restarting the session, which usually works for me on other oddities, doesn't work for this.
Mike





RE: shaded drawing view
RE: shaded drawing view
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: shaded drawing view
John, basically what I get is the shaded view, like you see in Modeling, AND the wireframe in the same view. I can remove the wireframe by going in View Dependent Edit. I've found it's easiest by setting the filter to Edge and dragging a box around the entire view. The wireframe goes away on the drawing but shows up in the PDF.
I should note here that I have had a couple of drawings that have turned out just fine, PDF and all.
Mike
RE: shaded drawing view
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: shaded drawing view
I know it can be done because I've had a couple of drawings turn out 'correct', with all of the wireframe invisible. I've also had a couple have only some of the wireframe invisible. Maybe it has something to do with the order in which things are done. Or maybe because some were originally created in an older version of NX they're getting screwed up.
Just as an FYI, the reason we're doing this is because some of our competitors are doing it too. We want to be seen as having the same capabilities as they do. The few drawings we've seen have a shaded view without any wireframe lines. And besides, personally I think it looks better that way.
Mike
RE: shaded drawing view
Can you attach an image of what you're seeing?
And NX version?
Cheers
Hudson
RE: shaded drawing view
The 'dwg_view' pic shows the shaded view from the drawing. It may not be the easiest to tell, but the wireframe lines are all gone. I turned them off or whatever through View Dependent Edit.
The 'pdf_view' pic is from the PDF file that was made from the drawing. In this particular case most of the wireframe lines are gone except for the ones around what we call the finish, the threaded portion at the top of the bottle.
I have had one or two drawings that had the wireframe lines gone in both the drawing and the PDF, and one or two where all of the lines show up in the PDF, not just the finish.
Mike
RE: shaded drawing view
Mike
RE: shaded drawing view
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.