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Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

(OP)
Been working on updating my templates with the new NX 8 borders and zones. The new documentation is really good but created this doc a supplement for when I go back and finish the rest of my templates and figured I would share for those of you going to update your templates. This is in no way complete or gospel. Just some notes as I was going through it. Hope it helps!

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

In your document, the last entry seemed to indicate that you will need an 'NX Drafting Plus' license to use these border and title-block features in NX 8.0.  Where and why did you come to that conclusion?  I just tested NX 8.0 and created a new drawing border master, including a title block, and marked it as a Drawing Template and the only license I needed, in addition to Gateway, was the normal NX Drafting license.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
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.
 

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

(OP)
Sorry if that was misleading, I was trying to indicate the regions and drawing automation features needed a drafting plus license, in which case my machine does not have, so I received an error msg.
I couldn't see any reason to mark the file as a template without having the extra license except for it creating the pax file automatically for you.
I ended up just staying with a copy of my NX 7.5 pax's, that were already completed and looked cleaner (multi-line). I went on without marking the part files as templates and they seemed to work (I havn't done full testing yet...). Does marking the part file as a template do anything else that I'm not seeing?

 

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

May I suggest that you contact GTAC and have them look at the 'error' that you got.  I checked my license log and I never had a single moment where the NX Drafting Plus license was being checked-out.  Exactly what were you doing when you got this 'error msg' indicating that a Drafting Plus license was needed?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
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.
 

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

(OP)
Once I marked the file as a template, the region and drawing automation options became available...when I tried to use them the error appeared stating that I needed the drafting plus license.

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

You don't have to use the functions on the 'Drawing Automation' dialog to leverage the new Sheet and Zone information on a drawing.  For example, you can create a Note which references the Sheet and/or Zone location by using the 'Relationships' option when creating a note and this will not require a NX Drafting Plus license.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
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.
 

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

(OP)
Yeah I realize that. All I was trying to get across with the last statement in the file I shared was that the users can't access the region or drawing automation with out a drawing plus license.
Is there any harm if you don't mark the file as a template if you already have the pax file created?

 

RE: Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

Not sure.  Never tried it.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
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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