reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
(OP)
Hello All,
I made a drawing and inserted a dimension in NX 7.5
on the chamfer dimension (3mm) I couldn't reduce the arrows tails, except for one side if I move the digit 3 toward the center.
thanks a lot in advance
I made a drawing and inserted a dimension in NX 7.5
on the chamfer dimension (3mm) I couldn't reduce the arrows tails, except for one side if I move the digit 3 toward the center.
thanks a lot in advance





RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
anybody can help here?
thanks.
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
I also met the problem, that arrow tails of dimensions are long. But I don't know how to change it. I think that it is system set up - user can not change it. If I'm wrong I would also welcome some hint.
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
Mine does not look as long as yours does, so i wonder if it's a customer default setting.
What you can do is add a gap to the end of the tail to reduce the length of it.
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
If you select the Line/arrow tab then at the very bottom there is a default for a dimension arrow out length. You can change this here.
I have not found a way to change this in the drawing.
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
Don;t think this is what he is looking for...it will just make the arrow head longer. What Weinstein is looking for is to shorten the arrow's tail.
I haven't been able to find any option to do this in NX not even in customer defaults.
Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.2 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
On the menu select 'insert > symbol > user defined...'. In the dialogue that appears, select 'utility directory' from the 'use symbol in:' drop down menu, then in the right hand list of options, select 'gap 25'. In the middle of the dialogue, one can choose the 'define symbol size by' options. Select 'length and height' from the drop down menu, then change the length and height to a size such as 5 x 5 (this make a invisible rectangle, which will be used as your break). Now, in this order, choose the icon to the left of the four icons near the bottom (add to drafting object), now select the dimension you would like to add a break/gap to (anywhere on the dimension is fine), then press again on the same dimension where you would like to place the break (the cursor location as default will be the lower left corner of your 5 x 5 rectangle). This can be used to trim arrow lengths etc.
I know it's a long process, but it's the only way I have found to do this... (any other suggestions would be most appreciated).
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
That's Stub Length, which is differnt than what the OP is asking - see his attachment. He wants to reduce the non-dimension side of a linear dimension's arrow "tail". Like shortening the left side (5 dashes) of this, if it were a linear dimension: ----->| |<---5.0
Stub length will only move the dimension (right) side closer to the extension lines (the | | pipes in the above). Create a linear dim with automatic placement and then make the Stub length shorter to see what I'm trying to describe.
Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC9.1
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
Read the entire thread Cuba...it's not possible to change this....
Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.2 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
I think he's referring to the default in the attached image, which might very well work depending upon permissions concerning customer defaults and use of templates as well. However, I do not think there is a setting which will change and existing dimension - one would have to delete and recreate the dimension after changing the customer defaults and restarting NX (if this, in fact, does work).
NX8_drafting_std.PNG
Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
RE: reduce arrow's tail in drafting NX 7.5
I don't think your drawing has all dimension with arrow external.
Thank you...
Using NX 8 and TC9.1