ASME 14NOT.5 1

[bruwel]

What is the accepted work around for the lack of break line fonts? Spline give really lousy results. There is not a real zig zag line for long breaks, that I have been able to find. The special symbol is not viable.
NX6

 

[JohnRBaker]

I'm not familiar with this standard. Could you provide some clarification as to what sort of situations one would expect to encounter this standard? For example, what sort of industry(s) would this relate to? And based on your question I guess we can assume that this is a 2D Drafting/Drawing standard, correct? Anything that you provide to clarify this, including perhaps some images and visuals would also be useful.

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[bruwel]

ACME Y14.2M-1992 p.5 is the specific one. Also Y14.3 2003 pictorial representation p.14. Thanks for requesting clarification. My title was to differentiate this from all the Y14.5 questions.

 

[JohnRBaker]

I don't have a copy of the spec handy (I'm working from home today, but even if I was in the office I'd have to track down a copy). Could you provide some images or examples?

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[bruwel]

John, I hope I loaded the files right. Thanks

 

[bruwel]

I didn't. Here is the primary one.

 

[JohnRBaker]

I believe that there's some work being done to add to the number of line fonts which NX will support. When I'm in the office on Monday I'll check it out and report back.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You seem to be suggesting that you're attempting to create a 'Broken View' and that you're attempting to use normal line/curve fonts for the breaklines.

To that end, have you tried to create this view using an actual 'Broken View' where we provide you with the option of several different 'Curve Types' for the actual 'Breakline'? To access the this function, go to...

Insert -> View -> Broken View...

...and after selecting the view to be 'Borken' you will be able to select 'Long Break' as one of the curve types, as shown below (taken from an NX 6.0 session):

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

Thanks John. I knew Broken view was there but I did not know that it could be used as a "one sided" broken view. It has been a while since I have done much detailing.

 

[JohnRBaker]

And for the record, so that people are not confused, there actually is a project underway concerning the rendering of 'lines', but it's not to increase the number of 'line fonts', but rather to increase the number of 'line widths'.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.com/museum/

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