Continuos Auto Dimensioning in Sketcher NX 7.5... 1

[3dr]

How do you permenantly turn this off?!

It's driving me nuts. Can't find a "default" setting to change and changing it in preferences doesnt seem to stick through a shut down and restart.

Help!

TIA
Dave

 

[CannonFodder76]

Try: File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults -> Sketch -> Inferred Constraints and Dimensions

Matt G
NX 7.5.1.5

 

[ToigaT]

Don't forget to save the customer defaults and then restart NX.

If that doesn't work, look in your template files.

 

[3dr]

Thats not it guys. Turns off the goemetric constraints.

The only place I can find is under...
Preferences
Sketch

But that doesnt stick.

 

[ToigaT]

Look again,

File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults -> Sketch -> Inferred Constraints and Dimensions -> Dimensions -> Continuous Auto Dimensioning in Design Applications

 

[JChurch77]

I agree that is extremely annoying!!!!

 

[3dr]

Aaahhh... DUH!

Rock N Roll time... Thanks ToigaT

 

[JohnRBaker]

Which is why we gave you 4 different methods of controlling this behavior:

1) Customer Defaults (as already described).

2) Sketch Preferences, which will set this behavior for all future Sketches created in that particular part file.

3) Sketch Style, which is a sort of Preference but which ONLY effects the current active Sketch.

4) And the normal option of toggling ON/OFF the Auto Dimension Icon (which is really just a duplicate of #3 above).

However, we will admit, but NOT apologize for, the fact that out-of-the-box, this is turned ON by default.

Our philosophy here, and in virtually all other cases, is to turn ON by default any new options and/or behaviors which we've added to NX. The rational being that if you happen to really NOT like something we've done, you will take the time to find out how to turn it OFF. However, if you are not aware that we have added something new and it's not enabled, virtually NO ONE will stop to learn how to turn it ON, even if we document it in the What's New guide or the User Helps files. That's just human nature, pure and simple, therefore we have no choice but to take the approach which we have.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[JChurch77]

John, great thinking there I appreciate it!

 

[3dr]

There's nothing wrong with keeping new functionality in front of us when intro'd.

We'll cherry pick what we like and 86 the rest! lol

Thanks John

 

[JohnRBaker]

Glad you all feel that way since that's how we're going to continue to operate, at least as long as I have any say in the matter ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.