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Large models

(OP)
Dear all,

I have a model with large dimensions (~100 meter). The model gives problems when displaying on the display. I cannot see it in total. NX cuts off parts of the model.When I use fit it still does not show the model.
Is this some scale setting within NX?

Please help!

RE: Large models

There is a limitation on the largest object that parasolid will operate with.
I believe it is a 1,000m box about the absolute zero.
As your part is smaller than this
In Customer Defaults - Gateway - Visualization - View/Screen
Check the Maximum Size for an Objects Bounding Box the default for metric is 265000mm.
Add a zero and see if it helps.

Peter Crookall
Snr Application Specialist
PhoenxPLM


RE: Large models

(OP)
Yes! This helps.
Thank you very much!

RE: Large models

The problem you are experiencing is not because of the Objects Bounding box if I'm correct.
The problem you are experiencing is called screen clipping and will also happen with smaller parts, even when they fall well within he bounding box.

Screen clipping is happening when your model graphically is getting larger than the virtual box was when it was loaded. Easiest solition is to fit the model and your clipping boy will be recalibrated to fit your model again.

The fact that the above solution worked for you is probably because the actiob of changing it also re-calibrated the screen.
If your object is really falling outside the above mentioned bounding box the usual behavior is that you can't do anything with it..not the visual holes / cutoffs you were experciencing.

Ronald van den Broek
Application Specialist
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B

RE: Large models

If the above doesn't work, run the Modeling application and try View -> Layout -> Replace View. When the Replace View dialog opens, pick any view and make sure the Fit View box is ticked then press OK. I imported some STEP models earlier this week and had an issue similar with dimensionally much smaller parts and this fixed my issue in all views.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.2.5 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

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