NX1872 TEXT & FILL

[Kenja824]

I'm trying to create a color code key in drafting on NX. I create a rectangle and fill it with red. However to make it look like the original, I need to have text that says "RED" in the middle. Only when I do this, the fill automatically hides the text.

Is there a way to have the text show up on top of the file?

 

[Toost]

There is no option as far as i know that can "make the text be above the other object " .
What you can do is make the fill "Exclude" the annotation. This option is in the Area fill / crosshatch dialog.
- NX will then avoid a small area around the annotation .

Regards,
Tomas

 

[Kenja824]

Thanks Toost

I sure wish there was a way to show text without a square box cut out of the fill, but this may still be the best option we have.

 

[Toost]

This is a tip of a poor workaround.
I have had a few cases where we had images on the drawing, and these images where slightly overlapping each other.
In NX this is no issue since "whitespace" in an image in NX is transparent, but when printed/plotted/exported to pdf the whitespace becomes opaque and white.
and then the overlapping images obscures each other.
Then , I found the workaround to load/edit the pdf in inkscape software and there set the image to transparent and / or re-order the images.
The same happens if one combines wireframe ( regular NX drawing views) on top of an image in NX drawing. IN the PDF the wireframe might be behind the image.
Inkscape is a superb freeware:

https://inkscape.org/

Regards,
Tomas

 

[jerry1423]

If you are talking about text being above something else on the drawing if you simply move text text in the +z axis a few little amount then that should work.
When you move the text in the +z axis you will not see a difference on the drawing.

Jerry J.
UGV5-NX1884

 

[Toost]

images and views. Notice the overlapping areas.
this is a illustration image :

Regards,
Tomas

 

[jerry1423]

Ok, thanks for that, but I think the images are movable in the z-axis

Jerry J.
UGV5-NX1884

 

[Kenja824]

The problem is we already use images we import for this color key code we need in the bottom corner. I have another thread trying to figure out a problem where in Team Center our image becomes completely transparent so you cant see it is even there.

I was trying to create this same color code just using lines and text and different color fills. But have run into the problem of placing text on a filled area.

Jerry
I have tried what you said but it doesnt seem to work. At least as far as I can tell. My problem is I cannot fully test it out either as I cannot print because I am working from home for another week. When I had someone try and use what I created and print it, they said all of the colors just came out black. Which sounds like a setting in their printing to me but I cant look into it until next Monday at the soonest.

However, from what I can see on NX, the color seems to still cover the text.