Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
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Is there a way to hide any thing on a drawing under a sketched area outline, like a circle or rectangle.
The best thing I have found so far is to use the area fill command in drafting to fill a sketched rectangle and then change the colour of the area fill to white. We have set up our colour palette so that white is just off white so it prints as nothing instead of black.
Before using this method I would like to see if there is a specific command or better way to do this.
TC8.3
NX7.5.5.4 no drafting plus licence
The best thing I have found so far is to use the area fill command in drafting to fill a sketched rectangle and then change the colour of the area fill to white. We have set up our colour palette so that white is just off white so it prints as nothing instead of black.
Before using this method I would like to see if there is a specific command or better way to do this.
TC8.3
NX7.5.5.4 no drafting plus licence





RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
If your outline is in modeling, you can extrude it with a zero thickness to get a sheet body. That should hide anything underneath it in drafting.
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RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
There isn't a command that I can think of that does what you want. I think the easiest way is to define a custom symbol with the shape defined & an area fill like you are doing. Then it's a drag & drop onto your drawing which you can scale & rotate to suit.
Anthony Galante

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RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
To learn more about what you can do and how to do it, go to...
Insert -> View -> Breal-Out Section...
...and when the dialog comes up, press the 'F1' key and then start by selecting the 'Overview' link at the top of the page.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
RE: Hide all drafting annotations/views under a sketched outline
Assemblies -> Context Control -> Hide Components in View...
...from the Drawing views in which they are not visible. While it is true that hidden-line removal has already removed all the edges of the component in the view, the fact that any time you update the view all of those component must still be processed which will impact performance, so it's generally worth the time and effort to cull from the view any and all of the non-visible components.
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.