How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
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I'm using NX 5.0.4.1.
In modeling mode, When I measure the distance to the center of a cylinder, a centerline appears that I can pick. It's like the drafting mode centerline utility symbol. Is there any way I can turn these modeling centerline utility symbols on so that I can use them?
Thanks,
UGguy
In modeling mode, When I measure the distance to the center of a cylinder, a centerline appears that I can pick. It's like the drafting mode centerline utility symbol. Is there any way I can turn these modeling centerline utility symbols on so that I can use them?
Thanks,
UGguy





RE: How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
Perhaps you would be served by placing a datum axis using the cylindrical face as a reference.
RE: How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
For everything actually... modeling, dimensioning...
Let me tell you how this all started.
I have a cylindrical bar, with a hole going thru it for a pin. the cylindrical bar was modeled in vehicle position, so it has a really strange WCS. Further more, the hole going thru it does not line up with the cylindrical bar in any way. So call that a different strange WCS.
Now you know, when you drill a hole thru a bar, you don't have an arc on the surface. You have a spline. So putting in a centerline was fun.
There are several ways to do it... extract an edge and project it onto a plane. Cut a section and draw a line midway between the two lines. Place 2 points on the spline, and connect the dots, repeat on the other side, and finally draw a line from control point to control point. I've even put the wcs on the cylindrical center, and drawn a line along the Y axis.
But that's not the question. The question is, can the utility symbol be turned on, you know, the one that appear when you do an info distance?
Thanks again...
Ugguy!
RE: How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
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RE: How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
RE: How can I show the cylindrical centerline in NX5?
As for Drafting and views placed on a Drawing, this issue has already been addressed more than adequately.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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.