Help! Cant find an important setting....
Help! Cant find an important setting....
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When we switched to NX9, we had a problem with all of the views in drafting being unselectable due to all edges were extracted lines.
There was a setting we changed, I believe in Customer Defaults, that fixed this. It seems to me it was something to do with making NX compatable to pre-nx8 or something like that.
I think we need to change that on someones computer now and I cant find where that setting was now. Can someone please help?
There was a setting we changed, I believe in Customer Defaults, that fixed this. It seems to me it was something to do with making NX compatable to pre-nx8 or something like that.
I think we need to change that on someones computer now and I cant find where that setting was now. Can someone please help?





RE: Help! Cant find an important setting....
Under Preferences - Drafting - View - Common - Configuration.
Representation needs to be set at "Exact (Pre-NX8.5)"
I am not sure if all the other settings do it, but we had at least one setting cause this problem. The modelers would model up a job and when the detailers placed views on the drafting side, they could not select any edges of the bodies. If you hover over the edges, it says "Extracted Line". Once switching this setting to "Exact (Pre-NX8.5)", anything we made after that worked fine.
This problem may only happen with particular programs from GM, like their Assembly Labels and such. I didnt dig far into it once we got it working right.
RE: Help! Cant find an important setting....
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RE: Help! Cant find an important setting....
In drafting views, he could dimension it and everything just fine. But when he tried to add assembly labels they would not attach to the edges. It was as if the entire assembly was unselectable. He could select the component, and select where to position the label, but when he tried to select an edge to attach the label, nothing was selectable.
I noticed again, in this view, the edges said "Extracted Line" when you hovered over them. It seems that whenever there is a problem with selecting an edge, it is alwas when the edge is an extracted line rather than an edge of a body. But we never extract edges to create this problem.
I had orignally thought it had to do with the Exact Pre-8.5 setting. When I had him go to where that setting is, it just said "Exact". So it seems that when we have this problem it always has to do with the file being made with the "Exact" setting. I also noticed that switching the setting after the file is made does not help. If it is made in exact, we seem to have a problem with Assembly Labels attaching, even if we switch it to Pre-8.5. If it is made with Exact Pre-8.5, we are fine.
One other thing I notice is that the top of our NX says "Unigraphics NX 8.0 (UG PDL 8)". Though we are using NX9 with the ribbon setups. Could this mean their was a problem in installing NX that may be causing this problem?
RE: Help! Cant find an important setting....
Originally I thought we needed to have this setting....
Under Preferences - Drafting - View - Common - Configuration.
Representation needs to be set at "Exact (Pre-NX8.5)"
However, our problem and cure, seems to have been hiding right before my eyes. In that same place for the PRE-NX8.5 setting, right below it is a check box "Extracted Edges". We had that chacked! When this is checked, GM labels will not attach to the edges. Uncheck it and everything seems fine.
Appologies for my stupidity. lol I only point this out in case someone else in the future misses such an obvious fix themselves. lol
RE: Help! Cant find an important setting....
I appreciate you posting your problem and also the solution for it. Although I did not encounter your problem, I did learn something and checked off "Extracted Edges" a moment ago.
Thank you, sir, for taking the time to write up your solution. Really appreciate it.