Drafting NX7.5 Image (company logo) within pattern

[PG541]

Hi,

I have no problems retrieving my patterns and putting them in drawings, however, i recently added our company logo to our prints within the title block. i can save the prt file/pattern just find within UGII/templates and retrievein my dwg file, however, it does not bring the jpg within the pattern file into my dwg.prt file under format>patterns>retrieve pattern.

in my pattern file under file>save options i've got compress part on save, save dwg cgm data, save 3D annotations and pattern data only selected. are there any other settings i should have check?

how do i get the image within my drawing pattern (A1, A2, A3 etc) to populate my sheet like the border, text and title block does?

thanks,

patrick

 

[JohnRBaker]

Go the Drawing Template route (even if you're still using the all but obsolete 'patterns' for the drawing border itself) where you create a part file containing your drawing border, title blocks, logos, etc. Then create your drawings with this PART file.

This is the route that I've gone, where I added the 'Siemens' logo as a jpeg image, placeing it on the face of my Drawing template after I had created my Drawing border and titleblocks, as shown below:

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

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

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

 

[PG541]

Hi John

So you are basically saying instead of using patterns i should just open my part file directly that contains my pattern and use that? if i go that route everything is live and one could change or alter the drawing template other than the fields which are open for text.
so there is no way to save the image in my part file so when i do want to bring in a pattern it comes along?
what happens if you realize your sheet size is wrong midway and you need to go up or down, you would have to redo all wouldn't you rather than just changing the sheet and selecting a new pattern?

thanks,

patrick

 

[beng021228]

If you need to change sheet size, can't you just do file>import>part and import the correct template file?

 

[PG541]

seems like a bandaid, what if you have exploded views and what not all ready? would those go away?

 

[cowski]

At a previous employer we would import the border to our drawing file. When you import there is an option to group the imported objects. If we needed to change sheet size, we would edit the sheet size, delete the border group and import the new size. No drawing views would be affected by the process.

http://www.nxjournaling.com

 

[PG541]

hmm..what do you mean import the border, through the method explained above via File>import>part or using the format>pattern option within drafting?

 

[cowski]

We used: File -> import -> part

http://www.nxjournaling.com

 

[JohnRBaker]

Starting with NX 8.0 we are supplying a set of functions (as part of the NX Drafting module) which which will help you design and implement intelligent Drawing borders and titleblocks as well as giving you tools to convert them into full fledged Drawing Temaplates. The image I posted earlier is of a Drawing template which I created in NX 8.0 using these new tools. Now that we have provided something which has been specifically designed to address the needs of customers creating their own custom designed Drawing Templates, complete with tools for creating the Drawing artwork (borders and titleblocks) we hope to wean people off the use of 'Patterns'. BTW, 'patterns' were NEVER designed to be used for drawing borders and we had hoped to have obsoleted them long before now (don't worry, they're not going away, just that we can now hide them so that new users will not be tempted to misuse them and who knows, maybe after a few more releases...)

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

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

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

 

[PG541]

thank you all for the support, i appreciate the comments/suggestions.

 

[cubalibre000]

John,
I'm testing what you are suggesting, but when I change the sheet from A4 to A3, the title block stay as before.
Solution for this new type of template ?

Thank you...

Using NX 8 and TC8.3