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Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

(OP)
Hi to everyone.

When I create a sketch I´d like to insert values such as: 1.752 or 3.54. But Nx only displays 1.8 or 3.6.

In Settings of a dimension I can set decimal places: 3. In this way I can see the exact value of that dimension.

But I cannot find this preferences in customer defaults, modeling preferences…So I can´t modify this setting permanently and for all new sketch dimensions.

Airin
NX Designer

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

The drafting preferences control the display of dimensions (sketch dimensions and drafting dimensions). Making the change in the customer defaults will NOT affect existing files; it will only affect brand new "blank" files. After the file is created, the preferences are saved in the part itself and you will need to change the part preferences. I don't know what version of NX you are using, but for NX 9 the dimension decimal place preferences can be found at Menu -> preferences -> drafting -> dimension -> text -> units.

You will need to make this change in any existing file where you want it to take effect. If you use a template to create new files, if you pick anything other than "blank" in the file -> new menu, then you will need to open that template file and make the change there to affect newly created files.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

and if you would like to manually change a few of them so they show to different decimal places than the others, then RMC on the individual sketch dimension and change via Style.

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

(OP)
I didn´t imagine it was with drafting preferences or in drawing standards.

Thank you both.

Airin
NX Designer

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

Airin,

Keep in mind that if you set this to 3 decimal places, that's how it's going to be in Drafting as well. That means if you prefer 1 decimal place on drawings then you'll be fighting the same battle in Drafting. Nice, huh?

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

Unless you use the master model method to create your drawings. Then you can use your desired settings for sketch dimensions in your model template and your desired drafting dimension settings in your drawing template.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

Sorry, I may have been a bit vague with my warning. By changing ONLY Customer Defaults for the decimal place preference and NOT using templates, one could possibly be stuck changing settings on the fly in Drafting.

Thanks for keeping me honest, cowski.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: Dimension Sketch: DECIMAL PLACES

(OP)
Tim, I was thinking the same thing and it could be really annoying.
Cowski, I’m using master model method. But I’m using a drawing standard, instance template preferences.
Once I thought it will be better…But in this case, it´s clearly not.
What do you think about? Are you using template preferences or standard?

Airin
NX Designer

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