Customise drawing scale
Customise drawing scale
(OP)
Is it possible to add extra scales to the scale pull down list when creating a new sheet or creating a new view?
i.e
1:1
1:2
1:2.5
1:5
1:10
1:12.5
1:15
1:20
1:25
i.e
1:1
1:2
1:2.5
1:5
1:10
1:12.5
1:15
1:20
1:25





RE: Customise drawing scale
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Customise drawing scale
When using drawing formats the traditional scale label in the title block is most easily added as an attribute using a text string that can very easily be edited. Still somewhat manual but gets the job done with quite minimal effort. What you then do is to add a note in your template file that uses that attribute. I'll assume for the monent that you're on a later version of UG and refer you to the samples as shipped to discover how it is done if you don't already know. By all means ask if stuck.
As a footnote it is surprising that this sort of thing is often asked. If I could offer a little advice it would be that because NX supports a reasonable amount of automation it is alway valid to ask, but don't bang you're head against a brick wall if the ideal solution isn't forthcomming. The truth of it is that what I've explained is a comparable method that really doesn't take so long as to justify your spending ages trying to develop a customisation that only saves one or two keystrokes.
Cheers
Hudson
RE: Customise drawing scale
The scales you want aren't available "out of the box" because NX has alway tried to base the software on accepted industry standards, thus the standard scales.
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RE: Customise drawing scale
I just hit custom, and instead of the drop down list you can enter any numbers you want. I dont know what version your using, maybe this is a new feature?
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
RE: Customise drawing scale
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: Customise drawing scale
Although it would be nice to set a list of 'company' standard view scales and disable the manual view scale entry so a ridiculous scale of say 1:33.3 can not be used.
For reference I'm using NX6.0.1.5