Is it possible to add more scale ratios to the base view dialog?

[Tingsryd]

Is it possible to add more scale ratios to the base view dialog? I use a lot ratios that fall between the standard ratios and it would be nice to have them defined in the ratio pulldown in the base view dialog.

NX9
Waiting for 10.2

 

[jerry1423]

I think you know that you can make the base view any scale you want.
If you are looking for more scales in the pull-down ~ I doubt if you can do that without extra programming

 

[Tingsryd]

The reason I am asking is because manufacturing has many dialogs which are customizable and I'm always looking for reduced user input to complete a given task. Some menus have ascii text files and some can even be customized graphically; almost like a html wysiwyg editor.

NX9
Waiting for 10.2

 

[JohnRBaker]

As an alternative, you could create a series of Drawing templates with predefined views already set to your most frequently used non-standard view scales.

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

As an alternative, you could create a series of Drawing templates with predefined views already set to your most frequently used non-standard view scales.

Is there a way to set the template view scale and enforce it? I've been working with a drawing template recently; I added a dummy component slightly larger than the parts I plan to detail and set the view scale to 1:1. When I use the template on my actual part, the views get changed to 1:2 scale. I created an expression in the drawing template and tied the scale of the views to the expression value just so the drawings would stay at 1:1 scale.

Creating templates with predefined views sounds like a good idea, but in my experience they don't work. What did I do wrong? Nevermind, don't answer here; I don't want to hijack this thread. I'll start a new thread on the topic.

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[Tingsryd]

Nah, keep it going ; )

NX9
Waiting for 10.2

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yea cowski, you may be right :-(

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.

 

[jerry1423]

you can have the view scales on the drawing driven by an expression, and then you can figure out how to work from there, for now that's the best that I can do for you

Jerry J.
Milwaukee Electric Tool

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