Customer Defaults - drawings 1

[eng426]

I am new to U/G and am having difficulty in finding "customer defaults" for drawings. I would like my drawings to open up with a white background instead of black. Also I want dimensioned angles to decimal and 2 places. I know how to set the preferences but can't seem to find it in customer defaults. I am using NX3.
Thank you,

Vince Smith

 

[ewh]

For a white drawing background, go to Preferences -> Visualzation ->Color Settings. There is a section for Drawing Part Settings where you can toggle on monochrome.

To change your angular dimension settings, go to Preferences -> Anotation -> Units.

 

[PennKoff]

Hi

You can try this:
file/utilities/customer defaults
then go to gateway/visualization click on the color settings tab and toggle on monochrome drawing display.
4 rows down you can see background and you can set it by clicking on color rectangle and selecting the desired color.

while in customer defaults go to drafting/annotation click on the units tab and play again with decimal point character and angular dimensions

hope this helped

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"...standards are great because they give nonconformists something to not conform to..."
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Penkov, Peter I.
Non-standard Equipment Designer

 

[kukelyk]

i set my defaults with the file/utilities/customer defaults, but when i want to place a dimension, i have to use the load all defaults button in the style window every time i select dimension command..why NX doesnt load them automatically?

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kukelyk

 

[PennKoff]

Hi

It will work for the newly created part files.
NX has to be restarted for to aplly the changes in customer defaults also.

When I'm working with older files I have to hit the load all defaults button too. But you can do this in the beginning- when open such a file go to preferences/annotation (view) (view label) (or whatever you need) and load the defaults.
In this case you will not have to load the defaults for every new dimension/annotation/view or whatever you want to create.

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"...standards are great because they give nonconformists something to not conform to..."
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Penkov, Peter I.
Non-standard Equipment Designer

 

[mjcole]

Vince,

You may want to try using a Seed File for your drawings. Create an empty drawing and set all your dimension and annotation preferences for dim placement arrow types and all others and save the part. Then you can create a macro called A_new_drawing that opens this part and saves it as new_draw.prt.

If you run this macro in the future the macro will stop when it does the save because new_draw.prt exists and then you can enter the new drawing name.

I'm not sure how defaults file editing works with NX3 but The method I described works fine with NX.

Michael

 

[ewh]

Michael's suggestion is a good one, and isn't just for customer defaults. It is good for establishing a layering sceme, primary datums and more.

 

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I NEED OPEN DRAWING WITH TEMPLATE OR MARGE

 

[demco]

Another way to perform what Micheal is to use technology built into UG already, called templates. In the Resource bar area you can have a template "master model" or non-Master model drawing template set up. You would need to edit the template drawing as Micheal sugested (colors, line weights, dimension preferences, etc), but instead of running the macro, you just click on the appropriate icon in the resource bar. A new file is created, with no file name. Then when you go to do a normal save, it will automatically pop up a window to specify the new name.
If you use master model (as you really should be doing in almost all cases), then you will need to use the non-master drawing template, also edited as above. You need to have a model open already, and it will be added as a component of the new drawing. Again, re-naming is done automatically at save time. I hope that helps a bit.

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