Request from a Colleague - Can he view Sketch Dimensions to the third or fourth decimal place in NX? 1

[MASawtell]

A colleague of mine had an interesting question: Can NX preferences/settings be altered so that Sketch Dimensions can be viewed to the third or fourth decimal place in NX? I took a look at a couple of the usual areas (Preferences and Customer Defaults), but did not find anything to control dimension display (decimal point wise). Any suggestions, or is my colleague out of luck?

 

[cowski]

You can right click on the sketch dimensions and change their style to display the desired number of decimal places. This will change existing dimensions.

You can go to preferences -> annotation to set the desired number of decimal places; this will affect any dimensions created after this change.

Note: the same setting controls sketch and drafting dimensions.

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[MASawtell]

Ah... nice to see there is some control (buried with 'other functionality'. Thanks Cowski, my colleague is satisified for the moment.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Note that it was "buried with 'other functionality'" on purpose.

When we enhanced NX so that sketch 'dimensions' could be retained and reused as PMI, we sort of crossed the line where these 'dimensions' were no different than what was going to used to document the final designs so at that point there was only ONE class of dimension object, be it part of the original sketch or added later just to document the size of some feature/model, and therefore we had NO need for providing multiple sets of preferences (now being referred to as 'Settings') to control the display and content of both Sketch and Drafting 'dimensions', be they PMI or as annotation on a Drawing sheet.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[Trevz87]

The only way I can get this to work is by right clicking on each dimension. I cant find the preferences->annotation menu and I've attached a screenshot so if someone could point me in the right direction that would be great. I have every setting I can find set to more than one decimal place in the customer defaults but still get one decimal place in my sketch dimensions.

NX9.01

 

[cowski]

For NX 9, try All preferences -> Drafting -> Dimension -> Text -> Units -> decimal places.

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