Creating a Visual Editor cartoon from the drafting program. 1

[BSM1487]

I'm trying to create a cartoon for visual editor in the drafting application that has expressions associated with it. According to the NX documentation I need to set the environment variable UGII_DRAFT_EXPRESSIONS_OK=1. I did just that, but the VE is still not accessible in the drafting application. I ran help>NX Log File to make sure I made the change in the proper directory, and ugii_env.dat file. I'm using NX6.

Does anyone have suggestions, or a possible work around?

Thanks.

 

[jerry1423]

So what happens when to you try to get into the visual editor?

 

[JohnRBaker]

The 'Visual Editor' is not available from within the Drafting Module.

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[JohnRBaker]

Sorry, I spoke too soon.

I had no problem, using NX 6.0, creating a Sketch on the face of a Drawing, adding Dimensions and then using the Visual Editor tool, capturing an image of the Sketch and then adding the relevant Expressions to the Editor's list of active expressions.

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[BSM1487]

I can create a sketch and grab the cartoon. However, I wanted use the drafting application, because I could have a both the top view and side view in the cartoon. Also my company doesn't really model off of sketches except to make a basic rectangle that we extrude up at a given height.

At some point I'd like to adapt the Visual Editor to create a template for a die-set, or something similar in nature.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Not sure what you're attempting to do here, but the Visual Editor can only access the Expressions which are associated with models and sketches contained within the CURRENT Work Part.

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[BSM1487]

I just want to be able to grab the graphical area in the drafting application and use it as the cartoon.

 

[JohnRBaker]

I've not had any problems doing exactly that. Are you saying that you can't?

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

 

[BSM1487]

Yeah. I go to tools > Visual Editor, but Visual Editor is grayed out.

Originally I had the environment variable UGII_DRAFT_EXPRESSIONS_OK set to nothing. I then set the variable to 1 thinking that would fix it. I tried restarting NX, as well as my machine.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Where did you set this variable? It works for me.

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[BSM1487]

in the ugii_env.dat file

 

[JohnRBaker]

Did you check your syslog to see if this variable is actually being set or not? If you don't find it there (search on '_DRAFT_' as that's unique to that variable) then your system is getting it's settings from some other source than the 'ugii_env.dat' file.

BTW, when you set the UGII_DRAFT_EXPRESSIONS_OK variable in the ugii_env.dat file, make sure that you've also removed the '#' sign from in front of it as this the 'comment' symbol.

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

 

[BSM1487]

Removing the '#' did the trick.

Thank you for the help.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yea, ya gotta watch that ;-)

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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA

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http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

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