annotation preferences

[msledden]

I am wondering if anyone has seen this situation. I had one of our designers working in an inch assembly. While in the assembly he started creating a new part. He then went to make this part a new component for the assembly. When he then made the part his displayed part and went into drafting, the annotation preferences values were that of metric numbers. The part is showing it as an inch part but when you look like at any of the annotation values, the number in the value is what you would see in a metric file. I try to say load all defaults, but it does not seem to get our customer defaults for the preferences. Is there anything that can be done with the file to get it to see our actual customer defaults?

 

[MickyV007]

This could be happening because the template part for the new part is a metric file. Then the settings in this template will overrule you customer defaults. Search for template parts and change it to inches, save it. But keep in mind that all new models now will be in inches.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native

 

[msledden]

All of our things for starting a new part are set to inch.

 

[Toost]

To see the "units" of an existing part , File - Properties - Diplayed part : Units=...
If , the assembly is metric, and one uses the "Create New Component", then the new component will be metric. (There is no choice.)

In case the part is in the wrong units, you need to run the UG_convert_part.exe ( from a command prompt)
It is located in the install directory of NX.
run it the first time by
c:\dire\dir\ugii\ug_convert_part.exe <enter>
and it will list the possible options.

Regards,
Tomas