What's new (and cool) in7.5

[uwam2ie]

I have looked at 7.5 with the help of the what's new guide.
Really cool is the patter inside the sketch.
I want to try the infinite sketch lines. I haven't found it in my 7.5 is this a licening issue. What's the diffence between power drafting and drafting plus?
tia

 

[PSI-CAD]

Hi,
I found the same things and I have the same questions.
Thanks in advance John
Regards
Didier

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

drafting_plus is a new feature to drafting. at the moment you would have a "drafting" feature in your license to access drafting. to use the new features (they are listed as needing drafting_plus as a requirement in the what's new) you would need to have a drafting_plus feature added to your license.

power drafting is a new bundle that has gateway, drafting, drafting_plus & translators for someone you wants to do only drafting in NX

Anthony Galante
Support Manager/IT Admin
PLM Australasia Pty Ltd
NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32

 

[JohnRBaker]

The concept of an 'infinite' line is only meaningful in the context of creating a sketch on the face of drawing as part of 2D design layout. This is an option of the normal Drawing sketcher tools as enhanced in NX 7.5.

As for 'Drafting Plus', perhaps this description from our Product Management group will help explain how it will be positioned:

NX DraftingPlus extends the NX Drafting toolset by providing additional 2D and 3D drawing productivity tools. The primary focus for NX DraftingPlus is to address 2D design and drawing production requirements. It is fully integrated into NX Drafting and offers a highly productive, robust set of 2Dcentric drawing tools for those customers who require 2D design and layout capability and/or maintain or reuse legacy drawings.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[PSI-CAD]

Hi John
Could you send an avi file to explain how to use infinite line ?
Thanks in advance
Bests Regards

 

[uwam2ie]

@John
Power drafting is a standalone Produktline with Drafting Plus inside? Ok ?? - Does my P1 package include Powerdrafting?
thx John

 

[JohnRBaker]

In order to create an 'Inifinte Line', while in Drafting with a Drawing displayed and the Sketch Tools toolbar displayed, select the 'Line' icon and you will find TWO options for 'Infinite Line', one which will create an 'normal' line which is part of an Infinite Line, and one where only an Infinite Line is created.

As for how you use them, I mentioned that they are generally intended for 2D design layout workflows, well if you were ever taught traditional Drafting (as done on a drawing board) back in High School or College (or learned it on-the-job like I did) you first laid-down a set of reference lines so as to establish the limits, across multiple projected 2D views, of your part model before you actually started to draw the edges of the model itself. Think of these 'Infinite Lines' as these initial 'Reference Lines'. Later, when constructing actual edges of your 2D model views these lines can be referenced and then later removed using the 'Show and Hide' (which now has an 'Inifinte Line' option) to clean up you drawing.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[JohnRBaker]

As for NX Powerdrafting, that's a separate package sold as standalone Drafting-only seat of NX. Please don't confuse this with 'Drafting Plus' which is a 'module' of NX itself.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[SDETERS]

Does any former I-deas user have feedback on the Drafting Plus Package?

Thanks