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can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

(OP)
I use a large monitor with high resolution, and many of the sketch constraint symbols (e.g. tangency) are quite small.  Is there any way to increase the size?  

RE: can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

Does zooming in help. I do notice that when over cluttered in a zoomed out aspect that they tend to disappear until you get closer but I think that is just standard behaviour.

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RE: can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

(OP)
Not much.  The symbols automatically rescale to maintain a constant size as you zoom in and out.

RE: can you change scaling factor for constraint symbols (NX5)

Actually there is a way of doing this, just that it's a rather draconian solution and one that we would only recommend as a sort of last resort.  Now making this change will have NO effect on the quality of your models or the accuracy of any calculation or even cause errors to occur which might not otherwise, so if you're willing to accept the consequences (and there are some) it might be something you may wish to try.

If you would like to increase the size of on screen, non-geometric objects, and this would include such things as on-screen text, drag handles, markers (that's what we call those constraint symbols in a sketch), the WCS, CSYS, Datum CSYS, EVERYTHING except the models themselves and the menus and dialogs of the User Interface, just go to...

Preferences -> Visualization -> View/Screen

...and select the 'Calibrate' button and then just lie about how large you would like the system to display the 2 Inch/5 Centimeter Dia reference circle.  If you were to increase the size to say a 3 Inch diameter circle, ALL of the above mentioned on-screen non-geometric objects would appear 50% larger than they do now.  However, if you were to ask that a view scale be set to 1.0, it would not be correct since if you did have a 2 Inch circle on the screen it would look like it were actually 3 Inches.  In other words, all viewing scales would also be off by 50%.  Now this would have no effect on the size and scale of drawing views since they are relative to the drawing size and not the display screen, so this may not be as bad as if sounds.  Now if you do change this, you can always get back to the out-of-the-box settings by just going to the above dialog  and select the 'Reset to System Defaults' button.

Anyway, give this a try and see if this helps any, just keeping mind that this change has a global effect and if not limited to only the Sketch Constraint 'markers'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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