Cocreate drawings to NX drafting

[jonnyra]

We have a critical need to translate a large number of drawings created in PTC's Cocreate software into NX drafting. The output DXF files from Cocreate do not come into NX drafting...only in model mode can you see the file contents. this does not do us much good for the requirements.

Does anyone have experience with this? Has anyone had success importing/opening Cocreate DXF output files into NX 6.0.3 and getting it to be recognized by NX drafting?

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[hudson888]

You'll probably have to write a script of some kind to get this to batch process.

Step by step there are a few possibilities of which I'll describe a couple. One is to leave the data in model space and just add it as a view to a drawing after you have imported the DXF. It is a manual process but then if the drawings are of different sheet sizes somebody probably needs to manage to view them in order to know the appropriate sheet size to create within NX.

Another way that seems closer to what you described requires that you convert all the files into NX then creating a drawing in either another part or indeed the same part so that once you're in the drafting environment you can import the file (including into itself) and all entities will then live on the drawing sheet. If you import a file into itself then be sure to go back into modelling and delete the original data to avoid confusion. This second method is a little peculiar and reflects a workflow that is non standard to NX granted that the results you want are not well supported by any CAD system that I know of.

CAD systems seem to concede that model data can and should be somewhat interchangeable but that drawings are created in a manor that always degrades the data when moving between systems. You won't find associative dimensions or easily maintainable views coming across from DXF for example. It is after all a fairly basic translation format.

Best Regards

Hudson

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