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Sheet Name color 1
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I don't see a way to turn it off completely...
Preferences -> Visualization -> Color/font
If you are using the monochrome option, it appears to be controlled by the 'foreground' color; otherwise it appears to be controlled by the 'selection' color.
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Preferences -> Visualization -> Color/font
If you are using the monochrome option, it appears to be controlled by the 'foreground' color; otherwise it appears to be controlled by the 'selection' color.
www.nxjournaling.com
JohnRBaker
Mechanical
Are you talking about one of the standard 'drawing templates'? If so, I think that you will find that the Drawing Sheet information (such as annotation) has been placed on a visible but nonselectable layer. Simply make that layer selectable and either edit or delete the unwanted notation.
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.
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.
I assumed we were talking about the sheet name that appears in the bottom left corner of the graphics area; if not, ignore my previous post.
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JohnRBaker
Mechanical
I'm sorry but I'm forced to ask; Why do you care? What is it about this string of text that you find so objectionable?
Now if you do have a good reason to want it removed or at least unseen, I guess you could do as cowski has suggested and change the 'Selection' color. However that will only prove effective if you're NOT using the Monochrome display option for your drawings. I say this since you originally asked how can you set the color to 'white' which suggests that you are using a Monochrome Drawing display since that is generally the only place where the Drawing background is 'white' and I assume that you were going to use this color change to effectively 'turn-off' the display of the text. Unfortunately, if you ARE using Monochrome display, changing the 'Selection' color will NO effect on this string of text. You'd have to change the 'Foreground' color to 'White' which is NOT going to get you anywhere, trust me ;-)
Now if you're running NX 8.0 or newer, there is something that you can do to at lesat mitigate (make it less offensive) the presence of this string of text. Just go that same place that cowski suggested...
Preferences -> Visualization -> Color/Font
...and at the bottom of the page you can change the size and the font used for any on-screen text, including this note in the bottom left corner of the screen. Just set the size to the smallest available, make sure you keep it set to 'Regular' and then change the font to one of the smaller, lightweight typefaces, such as 'Cordia New' or one of the so-called 'UPC' fonts, such as 'IrisUPC' or 'FreeiaUPC'. Now this won't actually remove the text, but it will make it as small and unobtrusive as possible.
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.
Now if you do have a good reason to want it removed or at least unseen, I guess you could do as cowski has suggested and change the 'Selection' color. However that will only prove effective if you're NOT using the Monochrome display option for your drawings. I say this since you originally asked how can you set the color to 'white' which suggests that you are using a Monochrome Drawing display since that is generally the only place where the Drawing background is 'white' and I assume that you were going to use this color change to effectively 'turn-off' the display of the text. Unfortunately, if you ARE using Monochrome display, changing the 'Selection' color will NO effect on this string of text. You'd have to change the 'Foreground' color to 'White' which is NOT going to get you anywhere, trust me ;-)
Now if you're running NX 8.0 or newer, there is something that you can do to at lesat mitigate (make it less offensive) the presence of this string of text. Just go that same place that cowski suggested...
Preferences -> Visualization -> Color/Font
...and at the bottom of the page you can change the size and the font used for any on-screen text, including this note in the bottom left corner of the screen. Just set the size to the smallest available, make sure you keep it set to 'Regular' and then change the font to one of the smaller, lightweight typefaces, such as 'Cordia New' or one of the so-called 'UPC' fonts, such as 'IrisUPC' or 'FreeiaUPC'. Now this won't actually remove the text, but it will make it as small and unobtrusive as possible.
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.
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- #7
The only reason that I care is because I need to create a pdf of a drawing sheet that has a single view on it (no border) of a shaded 3D view that will be put into a users manual.
The nice thing about utilizing a drawing view (instead of something from a model view) is because i can view dependent edit out things (mostly hard and very small edges)that I don't want.
The reason I mentioned "white" is because I was able to changed the dashed drawing outline to white, which blended in with the sheet background color, and appeared invisible.
If I had a way to edit pdf's then i could just cut out the drawing name, but I can't do that.
I really don't know why the person is insisting that I send him a pdf of it, but that's the way it is.
Thanks for all the help
The nice thing about utilizing a drawing view (instead of something from a model view) is because i can view dependent edit out things (mostly hard and very small edges)that I don't want.
The reason I mentioned "white" is because I was able to changed the dashed drawing outline to white, which blended in with the sheet background color, and appeared invisible.
If I had a way to edit pdf's then i could just cut out the drawing name, but I can't do that.
I really don't know why the person is insisting that I send him a pdf of it, but that's the way it is.
Thanks for all the help
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I feel like I'm missing something...
When I export a pdf, the view borders and sheet name don't show up in the pdf file. Do they show up in yours?
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When I export a pdf, the view borders and sheet name don't show up in the pdf file. Do they show up in yours?
www.nxjournaling.com
JohnRBaker
Mechanical
Cowski is correct, if you're using the internal...
File -> Export -> PDF...
...function to create your PDF files, NONE of the on-screen objects, such as the sheet name or even the view 'triad' is you were in modeling, is included in the PDF document file. The export PDF function is using the same NX code as does plotting and printng, both of which also does NOT include anything except the actual content of the Drawing or the current view on the screen.
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.
File -> Export -> PDF...
...function to create your PDF files, NONE of the on-screen objects, such as the sheet name or even the view 'triad' is you were in modeling, is included in the PDF document file. The export PDF function is using the same NX code as does plotting and printng, both of which also does NOT include anything except the actual content of the Drawing or the current view on the screen.
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.
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