Table Formating Help
Table Formating Help
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Is there a code for a line break inside the table? I would like to put one after my text in one cell.
Also, can you put an identification symbol inside a table cell?
Thanks,
Chris
NX 7.5
Also, can you put an identification symbol inside a table cell?
Thanks,
Chris
NX 7.5





RE: Table Formating Help
As for symbols, as long as they are one of the special symbols defined inside the NX font file, such as those shown below, yes, that should work:
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RE: Table Formating Help
For the special symbols, we use ideas_simplex. How would I find the information for that font?
Thanks for the reply.
RE: Table Formating Help
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Table Formating Help
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That being said, there is a COMMON set of 'special symbols' with can be used with ANY NX font and those are shown below:
I've also attached the image file in case you would like to download it for easier referencing in the future.
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I found a similar table in the help files.
Searching for "control characters brings it up".
I also found this in the files:
"Line Spacing
<Zr>
You can vary the spacing between lines of text by assigning a value to the variable "r". The distance from one line of text to the next is "r" times the line spacing defined for the current font. To reset spacing to the default value, enter <Z>."
Don't understand which "variable" I'm supposed to be setting though.
RE: Table Formating Help
RE: Table Formating Help
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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I'm still just playing around but that <z> character works sort of.
If you style a table's cell to have a suffix of "<z>" and add a return followed by a space it will work.
That wording isnt too great so I'll attacha SS of what I did.
RE: Table Formating Help
RE: Table Formating Help
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Table Formating Help
Sorry, but there is no undocumented (i.e. magic) special character that can be inserted into a string of text that when displayed as a note on the face of an NX Drawing (or in a Table) will cause it to appear as a two-line note.
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RE: Table Formating Help
<C> works as well and probably others too, I think it comes up blank because it is part of control character code.
John, one last question and we can conclude this thread. Is there a way to reduce the "cellpadding", space between the letters and the borderlines, in each cell? I figure there probably isn't, as it would probably be in the style section, but figured I'd ask just in case.
RE: Table Formating Help
If you're manually entering text into the 'cell' of a tabular note there is NO problem including a 'carriage return', as I stated that in my first reply to you last Wednesday. If you edit the note in the cell and remove the manual 'carriage return' before the <Z> there is NO extra line in the note. In fact, if the <Z> is there or not, nothing changes. There is NOTHING special about <Z> or <C> or any of these other items except that they allow a 'carriage return' to exist with NO entry appearing. It's still the 'carriage return' that's doing all the work, it's just that the <Z> is a non-displayed 'place-holder'.
Now if THIS is what you've been attempting to do, then fine, but please don't think that the <Z> is causing the 'carriage return', it's simply preventing the actual 'carriage return' from not being removed. But if it works for you, go for it...
John R. Baker, P.E.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Table Formating Help
RE: Table Formating Help
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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John< I don't know if you saw this in my previous post
"Is there a way to reduce the "cellpadding", space between the letters and the borderlines, in each cell? I figure there probably isn't, as it would probably be in the style section, but figured I'd ask just in case."
Just something I was wondering.
Thanks again.
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And yea, you have no control over that.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.