bring back section lines

[Crocostimpy]

Ok, this one sounds too easy, but I can't find it anywhere. Previously I turned off the section lines in a view. I'm talking about the big arrows and letters you get when you create a section view. Now I want to display those arrows and letters, but I can't figure out how to turn them back on. I've looked in the Style menu for both the section view itself as well as it'a parent view where the arrows should be but can't find any way to bring them back. I got my View Label back, but no arrows. Am I screwed? Do I have to delete my section view and recreate it? This is NX5.

Mike

 

[ewh]

I haven't run into this before, so I just tried it out and I can't get the lines back either.
I can't find the option to make the section lines invisible in NX6 at all.

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[Crocostimpy]

I finally did find a way to bring them back. You go up into the menus and select Edit - View - Section Line. At the top of the box pick Select Section View. You can then either pick the view from the list in the box or just pick the outline of the section view on the drawing. From here the only thing I could get to work was to pick Redefine Hinge Line. The easiest thing to do is pick Reverse Vector, then pick it again so the orientation is the same as it was before. Pick Apply. Tada!

Seems like a roundabout way of doing it but at least it works.

Mike

 

[Crocostimpy]

Addendum: So here's the weird part. Even though I could see the section lines and the letters in the view, they weren't really there. When I went into the Style menu for the lines and shortened the length of the arrows they all disappeared. I did an Undo to get them beck then went into the Style menu again. Oddly enough the setting for the arrows was No Display. So I changed it to the ones that I wanted and all is (knock on wood) ok now.

Mike

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, in NX 5 if you, accidentally or otherwise, set the 'Style' of a section arrow to 'No Display' what you have to do to get it back is to go to:

Preferences -> Section Line...

and when the dialog comes up select the 'Select Section View' button near the bottom of the dialog and then on the screen select the actual 'section view'. You can now go back to the 'Display' option and set it to what you desire.

What you should have probably done is simply 'Hide' the section arrows as that's a lot easier to change.

For NX 6, we appear to have made it easier for you to avoid this situation by removing the 'No Display' option altogether thus forcing you to use 'Hide' instead.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

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[Crocostimpy]

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks John. Yet another reason to get into MX6. It's good to know you guys are looking out for us. : )

Mike