2D INSERT VIEW TIME REDUCE 1

[JBIM]

Hi,

I have a question regarding the time that unigraphics takes to insert a view of an assembly in 2D.

I draw mold with 1000 to 2500 part in it, and when it come to do the assembly drawing it take me more than 10min to insert a single view.

I believe there is something that can be done to improve the time it takes.

For an example we also have pro-e user and it only take a minute top to insert the view.

I have a pentium 4 3.2Ghz with 3GB Ram

Thanks

 

[Xwheelguy]

Do you have Extracted Edges turned ON or OFF? What are your View Style settings? That might impact performance.

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[JBIM]

I do have extracted edges associatives: I believe it turn 2d exange faster.

Is it also faster to insert view ?

Regarding my view style settings I don´t see exactly where i could make changes so I might need a help on that one.

Thank a lot

 

[JohnRBaker]

Generally it's not advised to have extracted edges ON when placing a view as this is ultimately the slowest method available. For large assemblies, I would first set Hidden Lines to visible and make sure that drawing update is set to manual (auto-update set to OFF). Then place the views and when the drawing layout is complete with all the desired projected views and any non-orthographic illustation-type views (if desired), I would then go back and edit all the views setting the desired hidden-line status. After editing each view I would then do a single update for ALL views. Now you can place any dimensions, annotation as well as add any detailed and section views, again making sure that you've edited them and updated them to the desired display.

Now if this truly is a large assembly, as it sounds, I would THEN, after all of this layout work was completed and you are happy with the results, go to each of the views and turn ON extracted edges and do one more complete drawing update. Now this could take awhile bit once it's done, then save the drawing.

Now one advantage of using extracted edges is that if in the furture you need to open the drawing for plotting are to add additional annotations and such, you can do so WITHOUT having to have to actually open the assembly since all of the edges from the model have been copied as extracted eddges to the drawing sheet. This will improve performance for managing the drawing and if change have been made, you can open the drawing AND the assembly and perform an update all views manually. And note that once these extracted edge drawings have been created and if you do need to do a lot of periodic updating, but not actually have to add anything new to the drawings, there are ways using either NX Open or othe utilities to update your drawings off-line so as to not tie up workstation or user's time. This is generally the most efficient approach when working with the documenting of large assemblies.



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

John, This is a lot of unnecessary hassle that you have to go through to improve drawing update performance. Even the mid range CAD programs update much faster then what I am experiencing in NX 5. Are there any plans to address this in future releases?

 

[hudson888]

Purely for illustration views using earlier versions of UG we used to extract curves for the view using...

View>Visualization>Assembly Hidden Line

You need an advanced assemblies license to run it. You cannot get item number callout balloons to work properly. And it is manual to maintain at best.

We have resorted to this in the past for truly enormous assemblies because it can be run off representations without fully loading the geometry. Occasionally we strike an assembly gets so big that you just can't load the model/part/solid reference sets, (whatever you call the reference set containing solids rather than reps).

I think the extracted edges option is supposed to do something similar, but you'd have to test the performance and decide for yourself about the relative benefits. It seems that you can at least add callout balloons for item numbers if you use a conventional view placement with extracted edges.

You can also snap a jpeg image and add that to your drawing for illustrative purposes.

Good Luck

Regards

Hudson

 

[man2007]

Hi JBIM,

u may also go through this link

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=196694&page=7

that was posted few days back.

Regards
-man2007