In NX 12,dimensioning a the radius of a formed part will round up and the flat pattern callout of the bend rounds down the radius. .375 to .38 radius in the formed view and .375 to .37 in the flat pattern. We usually make the radius dimension a reference dimension in the formed view. The...
With the move to NX10 my boss wanted to add the company logo to the title block. Previous title blocks had company name (prior to a revision of the company name) and location. Problem is the logo doesn't show up when we create a .pcf (send to package file). It does show when printed to PDF or...
We are moving to NX10 and I recently inherited the task of setting up/revising the templates & settings. I wanted to resolve an issue we've had in previous versions of NX and that is the issue of the view line-weights not "printing" correctly either to the plotter or PDF. We currently create a...
Using NX9 on 64 bit W10 machine. Have come across this on several occasions. Have an image file on the drawing but when sent to package file it is not visible in the pcf. We use the pcfs for viewing and printing in other departments within the company. I was thinking that I might not have some...
Since we've had NX, about 3 years now, default units for importing files/parts/geometry have been in mm. We've been dealing with it but its just a big annoyance. New file templates are set to inches. How can the units be changed to inches for importing? What all is involved? The guy that was CAD...
I have a formed part that is part of a weldment, basically a flat bar with 2 bends <45 deg, that has extra material on one end so the second bend can be made. Once formed, the part gets trimmed back on the one end closer to the bend. The problem is on the drawing the flat pattern needs shown...
Anyone else having issues after installing ST3 mp4? I'm experiencing loss of component replacement functionality in assemblies. No matter what, I always get and error message that the replacement part has the same filename. Am contemplating uninstalling SE & reinstalling to mp3. On windows 7 &...
One of our engineers was laid off back in December. He designed a lot of his parts in WF2, as he was a proe guy with no training on SWX. We were using SolidWorks and ProE for our design work till it was decided to not renew our proE maintenace contract in 07 and only run one cad program. Well...
For our sheet metal parts we create a second sheet with each drawing containing only the flat pattern geometry in 1:1 scale. We export that to dxf format to send to our laser cutters. When opening up DWG Editor to check the dxf file SW automatically minimizes even if I'm still working in it. If...
I'm designing the mounting for a rigid body on a Ford F550 cab chassis using the spring loaded mounting method. I've searched but cannot find any specification for the springs I need to spec. I assumed there would be some general guidance somewhere on spring sizes based on body weight and...
I'm trying to mate a rivet to a curved face. Rivet is concentric to hole. Aligned right plane of asm and front plane of rivet parallel. Tried to add coincident, sketched point on bottom edge of rivet head with curved face. SW won't accept it. Tried with line and end point of line, both failed to...
I noticed yesterday when I went to edit custom properties (SW2006 SP0.0) in a part file that my "Properties" command did not appear when I clicked on FILE menu. I clicked on "Customize menu" and it was still there but had been unchecked, how?, I don't know. Anyhow, I selected it again but it...
We have SW05 w/SP2 and plotting on HP650C. My problem is I don't get the option for oversized paper sizes nor can I specify a custom paper size. I'm not sure what ploitter driver is installed. My guess would be it's a driver issue. What driver do I need? Could something else be wrong? We...
I've talked with Scott a little on this and have emptied my temp file. When opening a STEP file SW errors out and terminates giving an "Unhandled Error" message. Another pc can open STEP files fine, however another STEP file errors out his and SW crashes. I think the STEP files from a certain...
