Modeling Decals?
Modeling Decals?
(OP)
What is the best way to model a decal? Basically I am looking for a way to design a 2D design that I would then apply to a 3D surface.
I am currently on NX5 but I anticipate moving to NX7.5 soon so if there are some new options in newer versions, that would be of some help as well.
Ed Gray NX5
I am currently on NX5 but I anticipate moving to NX7.5 soon so if there are some new options in newer versions, that would be of some help as well.
Ed Gray NX5





RE: Modeling Decals?
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RE: Modeling Decals?
View -> Visualization -> Decal...
...function to place an image (JPG, PNG or TIF) on the face(s) of a model.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: Modeling Decals?
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For decal I would like a support without extra license and supported in drafting.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
RE: Modeling Decals?
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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Regards,
Tomas
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Insert -> Image...
...function to place that image on the face of the Drawing.
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: Modeling Decals?
Or extract the faces where the label goes and trim these into the same position / shape as the decal, then annotate the extracted sheet.
Regards, Tomas
RE: Modeling Decals?
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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RE: Modeling Decals?
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: Modeling Decals?
in SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor you can add decals / textures in modeling and show the result in drafting without special license or special hardware.
Use decals or textures are very useful and important.
It's time to implement and improve in NX.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
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Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
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As for the license issue, that has NOTHING to do with technology, that's a business issue, which means you're talking to the WRONG guy in the WRONG forum (Meaning that Eng-Tips is NOT the place to discuss issues which are related to pricing & policy. You need to take that up with your Siemens PLM rep or the VAR that you normally deal with.).
As for making this work in the context of a Drawing, now that's technical but since it's clearly not supported now, your best bet it to contact GTAC and have them open an ER.
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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you have right, sure it's not the place to discuss.
But you are a good guy, very important for NX user and a NX employee.
You are the person were NX user transfer their opinions and needing.
Maybe in some your SIEMENS reunion talk about suggestion discusses in this forum.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
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I would like to see a "module"(?) designed for creating 2D "parts" that could be assembled to "flat"(planar, cylindrical, or conic) faces in an assembly, using "apply" and "orient" constraints.
These parts would be designed on a "modeling" side and have drawings made on a "drafting" side.
I would think the modeling side could leverage some popular graphics application but this might make it difficult to port to multiple platforms. One would really like to have a rich graphics toolset. Not for my work but I could see where one might.
comments? flame?
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Also John, I'd like to see more detail in how you made that curved siemens logo several posts up. That's cool.
RE: Modeling Decals?
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: Modeling Decals?
add an ER :
- Add support for decals on modeling without special license and show them in drafting, on export to PDF or as images (png, jpg, bmp, etc.) like in SolidWorks, Solid Edge and Inventor.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
RE: Modeling Decals?
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: Modeling Decals?
I've made what you have suggest.
I wrote this to stimulate to open an ER, because write only here don't improve NX.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
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It has been given ER number 6696553
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The number is 1894359.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC8.3
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I would like to propose new functionality for the handling of decals.
Decals are parts that are handled in the factory like any other part
I would like to be able to create a 2D part which is the decal.
I would like to see a rich graphical tool set for creating the decals.
I would like to see the decals documented via the current drafting functions.
I would like the decals to be added to the assembly through the current assembly functions, possibly with some new simplified constraints. for the first iteration I would be happy with the restriction of only being able to apply decals to planar, cylindrical, or conic faces, to remove the complication of stretching .
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"I would like to see a rich graphical tool set for creating the decals."
I'm not sure that people would be happy if we invested our limited R&D dollars reproducing even a subset of the functionality of something like 'Adobe Illustrator', even if it was integrated with NX, just so that you wouldn't need to purchase a 3rd party graphics creation product.
We shouldn't be expected to try and duplicate something which is already being done much better using readily available commercial tools. That being said, this new functionality WOULD need to be able to directly accept any of the current graphic standard file formats. After all, in many instances, the engineer will be supplied the 'artwork' which has already been created in some other part of their organization or even by an outside design firm.
Other than that, I think you've pretty well covered the topic.
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: Modeling Decals?
Maybe this could place the image file on a shape template?
A big part of my request is that this be handled like any other part in the assembly.
Thank you for your input.
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I'm not saying that these samples are a solution, but they might get someone thinking about how they could leverage this new and evolving scheme.
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.