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Annotation preferences (changing color)
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Preferences are part specific (existing parts). Customer Defaults should take care of File -> New -> Blank (no template) parts.
If you are opening 2 different parts (part a and part b, for example), and both annotation preferences are set to black, if you change annotation color to green in part a and switch to part b, the annotation color for part b will still be black.
If you've changed your customer defaults and create a new part from a blank (no template) part, the default annotation color should be set to green (unless you don't have write access to that particular customer default).
Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.2.5 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
If you are opening 2 different parts (part a and part b, for example), and both annotation preferences are set to black, if you change annotation color to green in part a and switch to part b, the annotation color for part b will still be black.
If you've changed your customer defaults and create a new part from a blank (no template) part, the default annotation color should be set to green (unless you don't have write access to that particular customer default).
Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.2.5 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
The annotation color is a part specific setting, you cannot change a single preference and have all of your existing parts update to the new color. You will need to use Preferences -> annotation to change any existing drawing. Open your drawing template(s) and use Preferences -> annotation; new parts started from the template will now use your preferred color. Change the customer defaults to set the preference for any new 'blank' files created.
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What you can do is set-up Customer Defaults the way you want your colors and whatever and then after Exiting and resarting NX, create one of those new 'Blank' parts. Now if you don't already have a user defined tab on your Resource Bar, just select any tab and when it opens place your cursor over some 'white space', press MB3 and select the 'New Palette' option. Now open this new tab and again, place your cursor over some 'white space', press MB3 and select...
New Entry -> Visualization Template
...and when the dialog comes up, give it some useful name and hit OK.
Now when you need to update the visualization settings on an existing Drawing, simply open the Drawing, go to that tab and DRAG the icon you see there (that was created when you defined the Visualization Template). When you do that, all of the various visualization settings, such as the color settings, which CDF file to use, as well as other settings like background colors, defaults lights, selection options, grids, etc., that you set in Customer Defaults will be applied automatically to your Drawing. Now just save your file and it will be updated to your latest visualization settings.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
New Entry -> Visualization Template
...and when the dialog comes up, give it some useful name and hit OK.
Now when you need to update the visualization settings on an existing Drawing, simply open the Drawing, go to that tab and DRAG the icon you see there (that was created when you defined the Visualization Template). When you do that, all of the various visualization settings, such as the color settings, which CDF file to use, as well as other settings like background colors, defaults lights, selection options, grids, etc., that you set in Customer Defaults will be applied automatically to your Drawing. Now just save your file and it will be updated to your latest visualization settings.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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