NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
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I got a PR (6477958) in with GTAC but I was wondering if anyone else was having an issue with the section line preference and if there was a work around. In our site customer defaults we have the prefrence under Drafting --> Section line -- Create section line set to "With Section View" and its locked but everytime we go to make a drawing it goes to "Without Section View" and we have to manually reset it = LAME... why would we take a section if we didn't want the view...lol. Any ways GTAC states that its only conrolled through the customer defaults but this is not the case.. if anyone knows another setting that controls this please let me know.





RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
Open the file, goto file-properties in the attributes tab look for DB_SEED_PART_USED there is a specific name like metric or my-factory-drawing-seed-part or... you get the picture.
Then file open ... fill in the name of the seed part, goto drafting-preferences - section line preferences and change it under settings to With Section view.
SAVE the seed part and for all the new drawings created it should be ok. The seed part is overruling cust def in some cases.
Best regards,
Michaël.
NX7.5.4.4 + TC Unified 8.3
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
And that mis-communication between templates and customer defaults input is unfortunatelly not an isolated problem.
Still a long way to go but we're patient guys, isn't it?
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
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RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
I think I semi-figured out what is going on...so all of our templates parts for the File-->New are useing patterns. The second that the pattern gets exploded the setting changes to "With Section View"... Heres the strange part I went into the pattern files figuring I could change the setting there = can't be done. The preference is not available within the pattern files = grayed out. I really want to use the pattens because are template files are similar and if we change that one pattern it will change the background of all of the parts (boarders, logo's etc).
Any clues?
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
BTW, in the next version of NX we will be including a set of tools which will allow you to create your own drawing borders, with smart title blocks, and then convert them into Drawing Templates all using an interactive workflow in Drafting. This new method does not depend on Patterns.
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.com/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
Maybe we will blow away the patterns but that stinks because we have about 30 similar formats and the changing the pattern for the borders/logo's made it a hell of alot easier.. I will keep you posted as I try to work through this madness.
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
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.com/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
Also Just as an FYI GTAC states that this is a Windows 7 64 bit/NX 7.5 64 bit problem
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
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RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
The new maintenance pack (7.5.4.4 mp04) that was released on 10/13/11 fixed this problem. The section line preference now works as it should. For those using Teamcenter you will need to update the soa\policies files in order for NX manger to launch. (see the note 4.2 on bottom of the read me file)
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
you wrote :
"BTW, in the next version of NX we will be including a set of tools which will allow you to create your own drawing borders, with smart title blocks, and then convert them into Drawing Templates all using an interactive workflow in Drafting. This new method does not depend on Patterns. "
Can you make a video of this new enhanced in NX8 ?
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
RE: NX7.5 with Section View Preference in customer defaults not working?
After all, I don't really have time to create free 'training' material. That's NOT my job.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.