Hi,
This seems like an incredibly basic question, and I've found some forum answers which partially answer my question, but I'm still having difficulties with this.
This is my first time using NX to create drawings. I have a ~150 part assembly, and am just attempting to put together some basic drawings of it and selected sub-assemblies at this stage. I have been using layers during modeling to selectively hide sketches, datums, points, curves, etc. However, when I try to create drawings of these models, everything shows back up again. I get datums showing up all over the drawings for each individual sub-part, sketches showing through everything else, etc. I have successfully used Edit > Show and Hide in some cases, and checking off View Style > Hidden Lines > Edges Hidden by Edges has sometimes worked for sketches, but not always. In the most recent drawing I attempted to create, datums don't even show up in the Show and Hide list. Layers don't appear to carry over at all in terms of providing the ability to selectively hide items in drawings. How am I supposed to do this?
I've also been repeatedly frustrated by layers being inconsistent between sub-assemblies during modeling. Although I have added all sketches/curves/datums to layers when creating the part (beginning at the main assembly with the Create New Component command to create a sub-assembly) all of these options are lost when I again make the parent the displayed part. If I want to hide them, I have to re-select each part individually and re-assign each piece of the model history to layers.
There has to be a better way of doing this. What am I missing here? I started using layers after they were presented by a Siemens teaching rep, and also in the tutorials packaged with the software. Is there any point in using layers, or are they just an antiquated/redundant/useless feature?
Thanks for any help.
This seems like an incredibly basic question, and I've found some forum answers which partially answer my question, but I'm still having difficulties with this.
This is my first time using NX to create drawings. I have a ~150 part assembly, and am just attempting to put together some basic drawings of it and selected sub-assemblies at this stage. I have been using layers during modeling to selectively hide sketches, datums, points, curves, etc. However, when I try to create drawings of these models, everything shows back up again. I get datums showing up all over the drawings for each individual sub-part, sketches showing through everything else, etc. I have successfully used Edit > Show and Hide in some cases, and checking off View Style > Hidden Lines > Edges Hidden by Edges has sometimes worked for sketches, but not always. In the most recent drawing I attempted to create, datums don't even show up in the Show and Hide list. Layers don't appear to carry over at all in terms of providing the ability to selectively hide items in drawings. How am I supposed to do this?
I've also been repeatedly frustrated by layers being inconsistent between sub-assemblies during modeling. Although I have added all sketches/curves/datums to layers when creating the part (beginning at the main assembly with the Create New Component command to create a sub-assembly) all of these options are lost when I again make the parent the displayed part. If I want to hide them, I have to re-select each part individually and re-assign each piece of the model history to layers.
There has to be a better way of doing this. What am I missing here? I started using layers after they were presented by a Siemens teaching rep, and also in the tutorials packaged with the software. Is there any point in using layers, or are they just an antiquated/redundant/useless feature?
Thanks for any help.