We have a few different CAD platforms, but we are considering moving all our A-Size and B-Size drawings to WORD since they are usually text, tables or charts. This eliminates maintaining all those drawing formats in CAD.
I keep trying to find a generic WORD template I can start from - I can't...
The company I just started with is really behind the times. Despite using Creo-Windchill, we are still signing E-size paper drawings and scanning them into raster PDFs. We have a project to move us to electronic review and approval, but we are completely reinventing the wheel... and going very...
You can no longer Trim Curve in Drafting as far as we can tell in our newly-upgraded NX12. I can understand NX pushing geometry creation in Modeling as a principle. But we have a lot of legacy layouts and schematics that have curves in Drafting that cannot be edited (trimmed) for revisions...
I work for a large company that has it's own font - which looks great. We are considering switching to that with our Models, Drawings and PMI.
As we become more model-based, our concern is that when we send our models out for manufacture, if the recipient supplier does not have our font (and...
The company I work at has been using the ancient BLOCKFONT in all CAPS for decades.
Very "old-looking."
Do your drawings have a contemporary look?
Does your company use a modern font?
Which one?
Does NX have the ability to section, and eliminate half of an assembly, so that the remianing solids can be turned into an STL file for printing?
I have a large fabrication assembly made up of several hundred parts. We'd like to make a 3D Print of half of it (so you can see the internals). It...
* Caution, this is pure whining - but want to know what other users think. Can Siemens put more effort into intuitiveness?
The 50-50-90% rule with NX is that when an operation is binary in nature (50-50%) NX will 90% of the time pick the option I don't want. Does anyone else see this?
One...
A user here created a partial bolt circle using a center point and 2 holes. Works great. He then changed the scale of the view, and dimensions to the bolt circle changed. The radius was different as well as the angle between the holes.
It appears the associativity to the center point gets...
We're currently on NX9, but this has been a problem for a few versions.
Our shop floor would like a full-size print to be used as a template. We do not have a plotter large enough (unless people want to start measuring and taping pieces, etc). We've talked to an outside vendor that can do it...
We're on NX9, and would like thread sizes to bump up when the rest of the part gets larger. For instance: when Outside Diameter exceeds 1000mm we need bigger fasteners.
Of course, changing the value of a clearance hole is easy using logic, but is there a way to select a different thread size...
Deformable parts and Exploded Views are great, but not together. It appears you cannot move a deformed part when making an Exploded View.
Our workaround, is to leave the deformed part in place, and move all the other parts in making the Exploded View.
This sounds like a bug/enhancement that...
I have a bearing, like a donut, that has a hole drilled from the OD, radially inward - at 45 degrees off the horizontal joint. When you look at the Top View, of course, it is an ellipse (a circle that entered a curved surface).
I want to cut a section, using that hole as the hinge line...
When working with large assemblies, the graphics appear jagged when you zoom into work in a specific area. Not really a big deal to MB3 > Update Display. It's quick and fixes the display.
But "Update Display" is only accessible when right-clicking in an empty area. If you're zoomed in...
We recently jumped from 7.5 to 9, and many users are complaining about the speed of the new version.
We have tried a few different settings for visualization, etc., but NX seems to be doing a lot of "processing" as compared to some routine actions we did before. Updating through the feature...
Over the years, at numerous companies, I have only see one way to make drawings. You create a drawing file, and bring the part, or assembly in as a component (Master Model?). Everything shows up in Modeling space in the drawing file, with a complete assembly structure in the ANT. Hop over to...
We just went to NX 9 from 7.5
A number of our drawings have special views that have dimensions derived from other views (in special cases). In 7.5, we were able to shrink the parent view boundary down because that view was large and unnecessary.
Now, in NX 9, when we shrink the boundary...
We've been running NX 9 for about a month with about 100 users. The guys working with large assemblies are complaining about how everything is running slowly.
Also, users who make parts with patterned holes report updates are painfully slow. Sitting and watching each instance of a pattern...
Some users are getting error: "Balloon Size Must Be Greater Than Zero" whenever they try to make a balloon (ID Symbol). They cannot even enter the dialog box. It stops cold.
When we go through Preferences and Customer Defaults, there is the number .125 inches. It appears to be set up...
Prior to NX 9, when users wanted to do a selection of "intersection," they could just click the first line and then the second line. Now, when you click the first line, you have to go back to the dialog box and tell NX "I am going to select the second line now." It does not automatically...
