Kenja824
Automotive
- Nov 5, 2014
- 950
I know this is not necessarily an NX problem, but I am hoping someone has dealt with this or would know a trick in NX to get around it.
General Motors has their KBTD Tool kits and one of their buttons is a Hole Chart. It allows us to select holes and number them and it will create a chart with all the holes, their attributes and locations. It will also add centerlines to all holes selected with the hole chart.
The problem is if we have a large weldment with multiple solid bodies that have holes in it and you create a sub-detail view of just one plate. When the hole chart is ran or updated, it throws all the centrlines for every hole for the entire weldent on the sheet. Sometimes we can have 20 sub detail views and the hole chart will create centerlines for every hole and do this for each view. So we will have hundreds of centerlines covering all the views. Which is nearly impossible to delete them all without deleting centerlines you actually want to show up.
Currently the only way we know to get around this is to make the drawing sheet a lot larger, move the views outside of where our drawing borders are and run the hole chart. Then move the views back inside our borders and delete all the centerlines left behind and finally change the drawing sheet back to the right size. A real pain in the butt.
Ideas I would like to know if it is possible to do in NX.....
1) CHange a setting so centerlines are created in a different color than anything else? (Currently these centerlines are just lines and arcs. I dont want to make all lines and arcs a certain color. I need only the lines and arcs that are created as part of centerlines to be a certain color.) This would allow us to just delete them all by color selection.
Well that is my only idea. I had another but realized it was a stupid idea. lol
General Motors has their KBTD Tool kits and one of their buttons is a Hole Chart. It allows us to select holes and number them and it will create a chart with all the holes, their attributes and locations. It will also add centerlines to all holes selected with the hole chart.
The problem is if we have a large weldment with multiple solid bodies that have holes in it and you create a sub-detail view of just one plate. When the hole chart is ran or updated, it throws all the centrlines for every hole for the entire weldent on the sheet. Sometimes we can have 20 sub detail views and the hole chart will create centerlines for every hole and do this for each view. So we will have hundreds of centerlines covering all the views. Which is nearly impossible to delete them all without deleting centerlines you actually want to show up.
Currently the only way we know to get around this is to make the drawing sheet a lot larger, move the views outside of where our drawing borders are and run the hole chart. Then move the views back inside our borders and delete all the centerlines left behind and finally change the drawing sheet back to the right size. A real pain in the butt.
Ideas I would like to know if it is possible to do in NX.....
1) CHange a setting so centerlines are created in a different color than anything else? (Currently these centerlines are just lines and arcs. I dont want to make all lines and arcs a certain color. I need only the lines and arcs that are created as part of centerlines to be a certain color.) This would allow us to just delete them all by color selection.
Well that is my only idea. I had another but realized it was a stupid idea. lol