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NX7 Datum Target appears with incorrect hatch

NX7 Datum Target appears with incorrect hatch

NX7 Datum Target appears with incorrect hatch

(OP)
Hola!
Probably the most unimportant question to ever appear here but whatever...

Datum targets in NX7 (Custom Symbol > NX Symbols > Datum Target 1 (or 2)) seem to have a setting wrong. The filled quadrants appear as a hatch with the distance set too high (IE, a single diagonal line appears in the quadrants that should be solid or filled).
My drawings created in NX5 and NX6 still display the datums correctly in NX7, but when creating a datum in NX7 (NX7.0.0.9 to be precise) I can only get these "empty" datum targets.

Is there a setting I can adjust, or is this a hiccup in NX7?

RE: NX7 Datum Target appears with incorrect hatch

When the dialog comes up when actually placing the symbol, go to section titled 'Settings' and change the 'Annotation Preferences' option to 'Use Definition' (which will create the symbol based on the Crosshatch Preferences used when it was originally created as opposed to the ones set for the current Drawing that you're in).

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RE: NX7 Datum Target appears with incorrect hatch

(OP)
Aha! That did it.

Thanks John!

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