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Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

(OP)
How do you permenantly turn this off?!

It's driving me nuts. Can't find a "default" setting to change and changing it in preferences doesnt seem to stick through a shut down and restart.

Help!

TIA
Dave

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Try:  File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults -> Sketch -> Inferred Constraints and Dimensions  

Matt G
NX 7.5.1.5

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Don't forget to save the customer defaults and then restart NX.

If that doesn't work, look in your template files.

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

(OP)
Thats not it guys. Turns off the goemetric constraints.

The only place I can find is under...
  Preferences
    Sketch

But that doesnt stick.

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Look again,

File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults -> Sketch -> Inferred Constraints and Dimensions -> Dimensions -> Continuous Auto Dimensioning in Design Applications

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

I agree that is extremely annoying!!!!

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

(OP)
Aaahhh... DUH!

Rock N Roll time... Thanks ToigaT

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Which is why we gave you 4 different methods of controlling this behavior:

1) Customer Defaults (as already described).

2) Sketch Preferences, which will set this behavior for all future Sketches created in that particular part file.

3) Sketch Style, which is a sort of Preference but which ONLY effects the current active Sketch.

4) And the normal option of toggling ON/OFF the Auto Dimension Icon (which is really just a duplicate of #3 above).

However, we will admit, but NOT apologize for, the fact that out-of-the-box, this is turned ON by default.

Our philosophy here, and in virtually all other cases, is to turn ON by default any new options and/or behaviors which we've added to NX.  The rational being that if you happen to really NOT like something we've done, you will take the time to find out how to turn it OFF.  However, if you are not aware that we have added something new and it's not enabled, virtually NO ONE will stop to learn how to turn it ON, even if we document it in the What's New guide or the User Helps files.  That's just human nature, pure and simple, therefore we have no choice but to take the approach which we have.

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.
 

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

John, great thinking there I appreciate it!

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

(OP)
There's nothing wrong with keeping new functionality in front of us when intro'd.

We'll cherry pick what we like and 86 the rest! lol
 
Thanks John

RE: Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5...

Glad you all feel that way since that's how we're going to continue to operate, at least as long as I have any say in the matter winky smile

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.
 

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