Drafting questions in NX4

[acciardi]

Hello all... I have a few drafting questions...

1. How does one make a datum designator use the ASME 1994 standard suction cup type of attachment?

2. How can you print all sheets in a drawing at once?

Thanks,

Ed Acciardi
Seagate Technology

 

[J-C]

When you activate the Annotation Editor, there should be a toolbar activated called "Annotation Placement". If you don't see it, you may need to right click a toolbar and activate it.

There's a button on this toobar to change the leader type.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[Xwheelguy]

To answer your second question, printing is nothing more than a screen dump, or at least it used to be. Set up your printer as a plotter in Print Admin, then use the plot command. In one of the plethora of dialogs that come up when you execute the Plot command, you'll be able to highlight all drawings in that part file (they'll be in a list).

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[JohnRBaker]

In NX 5 you will also have the option to create a PDF from directly in NX and like with Plotting, you will have the option to select all of the drawing sheets and have them be exported one sheet per 'page' of the PDF document.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product "Evangelist"
NX Product Line
UGS Corp
Cypress, CA

http://www.ugs.com

 

[acciardi]

OK, thanks for the replies.

Re: placing a suction-cup style datum, I am able to change the leader type from the Annotation Editor, but a suction cup is not one of the choices.

I have a datum -A- box annotation pointing to a circular feature. When I right-click on the annotation and select "style" a requestor comes up that lets you edit everything about the leader, but there is no suction cup option. What am I missing here?

Re: printing - I found the printer/plotter setup notes and will go through these.

Ed Acciardi

 

[J-C]

You're talking about the triangular backwards leader head for Datums?

I don't think you control from the Style dialogue (I'm on NX2). Did you see the toolbar I was talking about?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[DieMan44]

What you need to do is this:

(1)Pick "Annotation Editor"
(2)Pick "Annotation Editor" again from the pop-up tool bar
(3)Enter Text
(4)There sould be another toolbar near the "Annotation Editor" named "Annotation Placement". The first button the this toolbar has a pull-down, the bottom of that pull-down has the "Datum Leader"
(5)You can make that triangle solid by going to style and choosing the solid arrow in the upper left under Line/Arrow.

Hope I explained it well.

Jeff
Tool/Gage Designer

 

[acciardi]

Re: DieMan44

I am on NX4, and the toolbar next to the Annotation Editor is Annotation Stle. There's no icon for Annotation Placement.

Here's what I am doing:

1. I select the "Annotation Editor" from the drafting toolbar.

2. I then select the first icon on the left of the toolbar, which brings up the annotation editor.

3. I pick the datum -A- icon, which inserts the text to create the datum callout.

4. I pick on the entity I want to attach this callout to. It defaults to a hollow arrowhead.

The icon to the left of the annotation editor icon in my toolbar is called Annotation Style. I hav eno button for Annotation Placement.

When I right-click on the datum A note, I can select the Style menu. As I mentioned, there are umpteen variations on the leader line arrow, but no suction cup.

Aren't people out there using the 1994 standard for attaching datums? It's an inverted filled triangle, about 3X the size of a dimension leader arrow.

Ed

 

[Xwheelguy]

Ed,

You might have to look at your Roles in order for the proper toolbar to appear. I'm NOT saying this is the final solution since I don't have NX4 installed, but there should be some sort of Leader/Annotation Placement Toolbar that pops up with the Annotation Editor.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[JohnRBaker]

Annotation Placement is NOT an Icon, it's a complete toolbar, but it only appears when you are in the Annotation Editor.

First select the Annotation Editor icon. Now look to see if a new toolbar has appeared with several options for placing Annotation and defining leaders? If not, while the Annotiation Editor is still open, place your cursor over the toolbar area of the screen (at the top) and press MB3 and when the list of toolbars comes up, look a little over half-way down the list and you should see an item named "Annotation Placement". Toggle it ON. Now select the 3rd icon from the left, "Leader Tool", and when the dialog comes up, under "Leader Type" you will find what you're looking for.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product "Evangelist"
NX Product Line
UGS Corp
Cypress, CA

http://www.ugs.com

 

[Vikingbro]

Ed,

Does this help?

1) Go to File > Utilities > Customer Defaults
2) Click on "Drafting"
3) Go down and click on 'Annotation Editor'
4) Click on the 'Geometric Tolerance Symbols'
5) Make sure that the "ASME Y14.5M-1994" selection is toggled on.

I hope that this, plus the other suggestions, can get you what you want!

Let us know if this solves at least this question!

Chris Cooper
Senior CAD Specialist
Cleveland Golf / Never Compromise

http://www.clevelandgolf.com

http://www.nevercompromise.com

 

[acciardi]

Ah, thanks guys - I had to enable the Annotation Placement toolbar.

Tim, I also was able to build a plotter definition, so thanks to you too for the suggestion.

Regards,

Ed Acciardi

 

[Xwheelguy]

No problem at all Ed. Glad you got everything straightened out.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com