GD&T symbol sizes quirk 1

[electracomplex]

Hi y'all,

I noticed an issue where sometimes the GD&T symbols in the FCF's I create are sized correctly with the tolerance font and sometimes they're very small. If I change to certain fonts (Blockfont is one) they appear correct. The default Arial Unicode MS doesn't.

And it's not every symbol. Flatness, parallel, perpendicularity, and straightness appear correct.

Any idea what the root cause might be?

Thanks!

~Felicia H.
NX 9.0.2.5

"Design all things as simple as possible but not simpler."

 

[JohnRBaker]

Can you provide at least a picture showing the problem?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
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[electracomplex]

Hi John,

Here it is in Arial Unicode MS Link

And here it is in Blockfont Link



~Felicia H.
NX 9.0.2.5

"Design all things as simple as possible but not simpler."

 

[JohnRBaker]

I have no problem, using NX 9.0, creating GD&T Feature Control Frames using Arial Unicode MS fonts, as shown below:

One thing that you can check is to go to the Windows Font folder and make sure that the following files are present:

NX ANSI Symbols
NX Constraints
NX ISO Symbols

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.

 

[electracomplex]

Strange...

I do have those fonts in Windows, I'm going to check and see if my drawing template standard or customer defaults are causing a conflict - not sure what else it could be.

~Felicia H.
NX 9.0.2.5

"Design all things as simple as possible but not simpler."

 

[electracomplex]

John,

Got it! Cutting to the chase, under 'Preferences > Drafting > Common > Lettering > Symbol' the symbol font file was set to Arial Unicode MS. I changed this to NX ANSI Symbol and viola!

Since you didn't have an issue I decided to create a new drawing and there I had no problem so... what is different? Symbol Font File.

Thanks for your help!

P.S. Have a wonderful holiday with those you love and care about - even those not so much



~Felicia H.
NX 9.0.2.5

"Design all things as simple as possible but not simpler."

 

[JohnRBaker]

Out-of-the-box this is set in Customer Defaults as NX ANSI Symbols which presets the Drafting Preference. It's possible that someone in your organization edit the Preference in some of your Part files since you alluded to the fact that this only happens "sometimes", or perhaps are these files are from some other company that you do business with? Anyway, please check Customer Defaults as well under Drafting Standard -> Annotation -> Symbols.

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.