round holes showing up as squares
round holes showing up as squares
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I'm running NX 7.5.3.3. My round holes are showing up as squares...what preference do I change to get them to show up as round?
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RE: round holes showing up as squares
What OS are you running?
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RE: round holes showing up as squares
An other reason could be visualisation settings.
I have had the problem weeks ago. Preferences -> Visualization
the facetting card, Partsetting, shaded views tolerance, use standard.+ regenerate view -> View -> operation-> regenerate view
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RE: round holes showing up as squares
View -> Layout -> Display Update
...and if this improves your display (circles no long look like squares) then you may need to change your display tolerance by going to...
Prefernces -> Visualization -> Faceting
...and in the section of the dialog titled 'Part Settings' change the Shaded View 'Tolerance' to something like 'Fine' or 'Extra Fine'. Note that this will only change the display tolerance of this single part file. If you wish top change your systems default, you will need to go to...
Customer Defaults -> Gateway -> Visualization -> Facetting
...and make a global change, but remember this will only effect new files created which did NOT use a template file. If you use a template file, you will need to Open the template file, make the first change above and save it.
However I must warn you that setting the display tolerance to high will have a negative impact on display performance. You need to trust in the idea that despite what you might see on the screen that the holes are actually ROUND and that having the 'luxury' of seeing them as perfect circles comes with a 'price'. I would recommend that you use the Update Display when you wish to assure yourself that you're getting what you expected and just trust the system the rest of the time to be doing what you expect it to be doing.
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RE: round holes showing up as squares
Right now, I am just comparing two parts, so performance isn't an issue. I agree, John, that there is a price to pay performance wise. Thanks for providing the path to the solution.
RE: round holes showing up as squares
The lightweight square hole thing drives me crazy too. I just change the part I want to exact in the AN to display the shape as it should be.
RE: round holes showing up as squares
We just received a part from our subcontractor where the slotted holes are cut out as 8-corner polygons. This was caused by creating and exporting the drawing while using lightweight. (export via file>export>2D exchange)
On the PDF we couldn't see the polygons, but they were visible on the dwg's and dxf's (which, unfortunately, we didn't check before we sent over the files)
Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to prevent this without giving up lightweight?
NX7.5.4.4 (+teamcenter 8)
RE: round holes showing up as squares
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: round holes showing up as squares
RE: round holes showing up as squares
View -> Camera -> Edit...
...and when the dialog comes-up, go down to the section labeled 'Clipping', push the 'Fit Planes to Extents' button and then hit OK. Did this 'clean-up' your display? If not, then it's time to look more closely at the display drivers that you're using.
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.