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NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

(OP)
Hi,

I've created a drawing which has views referencing the part which is a component of the drawing file

Assembly Hierarchy:
Drawing.prt
--->Part.prt

The problem is I would like to add geometry in the modelling application to help define areas on the part, but when I do so, I cannot see the areas in the views. I understand that this is because the view is still referencing directly back to the part and therefore will not show me the lines in the model "space" of the drawing.

How can I change the view to reference the drawing.prt instead of the part.prt?

Thanks,
Jeff

RE: NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

When you add a view to your drawing (with the 'base view' command), make sure the selected part is your drawing instead of the part.

Alternatively, can you use a drafting sketch in your current view to add the geometry that you need? If so, it will avoid some drafting rework.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

(OP)
Cowski,

Unfortunately, I didn't realize that I had created the drawing (actually 28 or them!) referencing the part instead of the drawing. That is why I am trying to find out if I can recover by changing the reference.

If it isn't possible as a menu operation, would it be possible to run a journal to do this?

Thanks,
Jeff

RE: NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

To the best of my knowledge, you cannot change the file that the view references after it has been created. You might be able to write some code that would recreate the view from the desired file then delete the existing view, giving the illusion that it has changed the file reference. However, I have a feeling that that would require some considerable programming effort.

If you have write access to the part files, you might add the geometry in the part file on its own layer. Then you could use "layer visible in view" on the drawing to show/hide the geometry as necessary. Probably a better solution would be to use a drafting sketch to add the geometry directly to the view where you need it.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: NX9 Drafting - Change Drawing View Part Member

(OP)
Okay, I've come up with an acceptable workaround. Back in the day, before we could have sketches on drawings I used to create the geometry in the expanded view. I can add a temporary view of the geometry from the model and then use view dependent edit to convert them from model to view dependency and carry out the rest of the geometry editing in the expanded view.

Thanks,
Jeff

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