Electrical Routing Hidden Lines

[ULAbmolz]

I just finished our companies pilot usage of the electrical routing versus splines and tubes. This application will be great for us, however I'm finding a snag when creating the harness installation drawing. For some reason the sweeps do not hide geometry that is below and I have to continuously use view dependent edit. I have tried every setting of view style>hidden lines to no avail. If I grab the center line of the routed harness and put a tube on it, that tube hides edges that are below it. Are electrical sweeps not calculated the same as other modeling solids during hidden lines?

This could potentially add painful hours of manually hiding edges and line segments on a drawing so if there is a known bug or fix coming that would be helpful to know.

Thanks
bmolz

 

[Toost]

I have never seen this behavior. All routing sweeps should/are be the same as "regular sweeps" but with the added Routing knowledge.
Can you provide a simple example ? ( I.e create a cable which is above a simple block and post it in a zipfile )

Regards,
Tomas

 

[ULAbmolz]

When you mentioned to create a more simple rep to recreate I found that the tolerance of the view with the combination of the hidden lines settings needed further tweaking. I used the Interferring Solids "Yes, without Interference Curves" as well as a view tolerance of .001 versus .1 that it defaulted to. I think this is also due to conversion from NX 4 to NX 8, and starting from a new company template. Just a whole bunch of change.

Anyway the answer was what I thought, just didn't take time to isolate and simplify.

Thanks anyway.