Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
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Hi
I am new to NX 8.5. In my office PC, i have nx 8.5 installed.
Presently, the default drg template is Siemens. I need to change it into my company's logo and all.
Pls see the attached URL. As instructed I have now modelled my drg as .prt file.
But due to restrictions, i am not able to copy prt file in template folder & update the pax file.
So my question is
1. how do I update the new file location in .pax file?
2. My title block is made using lines. How do i populate the same? Like first issue, name of persons etc?
3. How do i include angle of projection symbol in my title block
Pls help
I am new to NX 8.5. In my office PC, i have nx 8.5 installed.
Presently, the default drg template is Siemens. I need to change it into my company's logo and all.
Pls see the attached URL. As instructed I have now modelled my drg as .prt file.
But due to restrictions, i am not able to copy prt file in template folder & update the pax file.
So my question is
1. how do I update the new file location in .pax file?
2. My title block is made using lines. How do i populate the same? Like first issue, name of persons etc?
3. How do i include angle of projection symbol in my title block
Pls help





RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Are you using teamcenter or natave?
Also a do a search on this topic in this forum. There is gobs of information about this topic.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Now once you've got your .pax file created and in the 'startup' folder along with your drawing templates you need to set an environment variable in your Windows user profile that reads
UGII_USER_DIR=<full path to the 'user folder' previsouly created>
Don't include the 'startup' folder just the name of the 'user' folder you created and finish the entry with a '\'.
OK, to create your drawing boarder and title block you can use the built in tools. Open a new part and go into Drafting and simply display any sort of Drawing view. Now there should be a toolbar titled 'Drawing Format' and it will have four icons on it. Select the first one titled 'Borers and Zones' and when the dialog opens press the 'F1' key and the NX Help page for this function will open and you'll find the instructions on how to define the Drawing Border artwork. When you're ready to create your title block and add it to your Drawing Boarder select the next icon titled 'Define Titleblock' and when the dialog opens again hit the 'F1' key and you'll get the instructions on how to create your title block.
Now as for the 'Drawing Projection' symbol, there is a set of so-called 'system attributes' which can be added to your Drawing border using 'automatic text' including things like the name of the current drawing, the scale of the Drawing, the current sheet number, the total number of sheets, as well as the 'projection symbol'. You can find these by going into the NX Help files and using the string "System attributes for drawing templates" as you search text and when you get the list of search results select the one with exact name and you will find all of the examples of the system attribute 'automatic text'.
Anyway, that should get you going.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Thank you for your reply.
I tried the steps you have told, but I was unsuccessful.
Here are the steps I followed: Pls correct me if I am wrong
1) In D:, i created a folder named "NX new template" and inside same another one "STARTUP". I copied all the templates in the default template folder of NX (.prt files & .Pax files) into this and updated the .Pax file (drawing)
2) Now created a new user environment variable
Variable name: UGII_USER_DIR
Variable value: <D:\NX new template\>
3) Restarted NX 8.5, but it didnt help
Regarding attributes, I got into the help menu and reading it ..
Thanks a lot..
Pls reply
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Its not working for me.
Is that environment variable correct?
Here is my palette entry in .pax file? Is there any issue with this?
I have not set any attributes, to this .prt file? Is that the problem?
<PaletteEntry id="d23">
<References/>
<Presentation name="My-A0" description="Creates My-A0 size drawing" tooltip="This NX template example creates an My-A0 drawing that does not reference any existing models.">
<PreviewImage type="UGPart" location="My-A0.jpg"/>
</Presentation>
<ObjectData class="DrawingTemplate">
<TemplateFileType>none</TemplateFileType>
<Filename>My-A0.prt</Filename>
<Units>English</Units>
</ObjectData>
</PaletteEntry>
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Did you correct your environment variable, removing the '< >'?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
Still its not working. d23 in palette entry is unique.
Also, i removed <> in environment variable.
Still not working.
Could you also pls help me with bill of materials table (BOM).
I have a list of pipe sizes, with different material codes and specification.
How do i make a database of the same, and assign the same to parts.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
RE: Create company's drawing template and populate the title block in NX8.5
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