NX8 Broken View

[Xwheelguy]

How can one create broken views of pipes at different angles? I'm wanting to trim the ends off of the views rather than breaking them in pieces.

Imagine a Y-shaped pipe and you want to detail the intersection areas but cut off the three ends. Here's what I've found to be the showstopper: I need the breaks to be perpendicular to the tube centerlines (different vectors in the dialog) - how can that be accomplished using this new broken view command? I feel like I'm missing something here.....

Thanks!

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 7.5.4.4 MP8
WinXP Pro x64 SP2
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

 

[JohnRBaker]

Attached is one solution (edit the extension from .zipper to .zip before extracting the files and then open the Drawing file). Note that there are actually THREE views superimposed over another, with each one containing a single-ended Broken Section. The trick is to edit the boundaries of the THREE views so that each one excludes the that part of other views where the Broken Section begins (you can see what I mean by looking the view boundaries in my example). Now the REAL trick is that you HAVE to edit the boundaries BEFORE you add the Broken Sections so you'll need to plan ahead as to exactly where you want those Broken Sections to start. But it can be done and as long as you're NOT going use a PEN PLOTTER to create your final document, no will notice the fact that there are actually THREE separate views on the Drawing.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[Xwheelguy]

Thanks for the time and effort but unfortunately, that's not a viable option for us. Any chance there is an evironment variable that would reactivate the old Broken View dialog (like Transform had for a long time)?

I'll try not to be too overbearing, but this appears to be a step backwards compared to the old broken view command. Is this a work in progress? If not, then is there any chance someone within Siemens might back an ER to allow for more than one vector per view or an evironment variable to activate the old broken view command? Maybe allow for a list of vectors and breaks like Edge Blend radius values?

We use broken views quite a bit and we don't necessarily have the time to create triple the number of views. While I do appreciate the speed when working with a straight, unbent tubular shape - this command has pretty much been rendered useless to us at this point in time. We are also noticing dimensions losing their origins when the new broken view are moved around - sometimes angular dimensions are completely changing values without losing association to the entities.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

 

[JohnRBaker]

Contact GTAC and open an ER but be prepared to make a strong case for this because as you said, it works really well for single direction views and anything which adds excessive complexity will not be seen as an 'enhancement'. It also helps if you can reference a Drafting standard which supports your request.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.