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Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

(OP)
I have done all views of a part in draft mode; the last view would be a view which shows a simple assembly of the part with a screw in it. I made the assembly's model, and added it's view to the original part's draft (Base view -> Select part). The problem is, the coordinate system of the asm is visible and cannot be hidden. It's visible also on print.

Is there a way to hide it, or a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

NX6

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

A few questions first:
what version of NX are you in ?
Are you working in "master model" ?
It looks to me like you have a "saved cycs" there. Do you know if that is in the drawing file, or model file ? (if working in "master model")

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

(OP)
Thanks, I'm using NX6 and I'm quite new to this. How to know whether I1'm working in master model? I just simply modeled the part, then used the File -> New.. command to create a drawing file for the model. Then made the assembly as a new file and returned to the original part's drawing, then inserted the view from the assembly.
As far as I know, I haven't saved any CSYS.

On the attached picture is the assembly with the part in purple, and the screw-thingy in gray. The csys is also there.

NX6

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

You are right, that is not a "saved csys" just a "datum csys", but no big deal.
It sounds to be like you are using "master model", and that's good.
Do you know how to work with "reference sets"?

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

You should also be able to 'Hide' the CSYS Datum from within the Drawing.

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RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

(OP)
thanks for your comments!

John: The csys cannot be selected, only in expanded member view. I was able to hide the axises there, but the view is still having the csys (also visible on print) as seen on the attachement.

Jerry: I have done simplified referenced sets before, could you tell me how to use this method in this example? Thanks in advance!

NX6

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

When you try to hide the datum csys, change your filter settings to "datums"; then you should be able to select the datum csys even if it is owned by one of the components. If it is owned by one of the components, you should look at using reference sets to filter it out (as suggested earlier by jerry).

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RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

(OP)
Thank you very much!

With the use of the filters, I managed at last to hide the unwanted items.

I can't be grateful enough guys!

NX6

RE: Inserting an assembly's view in a draft

You can also use the 'Show and Hide...' function while allows you to edit the visibility of objects based on 'class' such as Hiding ALL 'Datums' or ALL 'Points' whether they are technically selectable or not.

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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