Override Text Control Character in NX?
Override Text Control Character in NX?
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Hello, long time lurker, first time poster.
I'm running NX 7.5, and in a PMI note, I'm trying to list a network path to the folder where the files are located. When I type the backslashes between the directories, the note editor converts this to a "±" symbol for display on the model. Is there any way I can override the text control (if I'm even calling it the right thing), so that when I type a backslash, it displays as a backslash?
I'm running NX 7.5, and in a PMI note, I'm trying to list a network path to the folder where the files are located. When I type the backslashes between the directories, the note editor converts this to a "±" symbol for display on the model. Is there any way I can override the text control (if I'm even calling it the right thing), so that when I type a backslash, it displays as a backslash?





RE: Override Text Control Character in NX?
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Override Text Control Character in NX?
Thanks for the reply. The string is "G:\Tooling Data\General Tooling\Assembly Nests\P7-99-485", not includings the quotes. My font in the text dialog was set up as "alien". When I changed it to "blockfont" the problem went away. I noticed that when I changed it, "<F1><F> appeared, and I needed to enclose my text between the <F1> and <F> in order for the formatting to take (kind of like HTML tags). I remember in the I-DEAS days, "`" would produce the degree symbol, "|" would produce the diameter symbol, and "\" would produce the plus/minus symbol in the drafting text editor (actually the symbols would only be produced on the drawing, the text editor would show the actual keystrokes), but it seems weird that in NX only certain fonts behave this way.
I tried searching the NX 7.5 help files for "text control characters" (as suggested in other posts here for NX 6.0 users), but that returned nothing. Is there any place I could find a good tutorial on this, applicable to NX 7.5?
RE: Override Text Control Character in NX?
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.