Exported flat pattern bend lines appear solid font

[carlharr]

Hello,

I have an NX part where the bend centre and tangent lines from a flat pattern are appearing as solid font when exported to DXF.

The flat pattern is long and thin, and I do think the problem is something to do with font scaling.

I have tried exporting with various settings in Preferences > Visualization > Line > Dash Size and Space Size, but it's always solid. Also tried de-selecting "software fonts".

To test, I made a change to the model (made one end much wider), and sure enough the lines are actually dashed, they're just appearing to be solid. Picture attached.


Has anyone any suggestions for how to make these lines appear dashed / phantom in the DXF?

Thanks in advance, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

 

[Toost]

What viewer do you use ? It might be in the viewer that the error occurs.
DWGTrueView ?

Regards,
Tomas

 

[carlharr]

Hi Tomas,

In both DWGTrueView and Teamcenter Visualization result is the same.

I think it probably is a setting in either of these two packages (no idea what though!), as I don't think DXF would be able to capture a setting applied in NX. Just a guess.

Since the font is still phantom/dashed (proved by my test) and only appears solid, I've asked our Engineer to check it's ok with manufacturing and go ahead anyway, so it's no major issue.

Would just be nice to understand it.

Regards, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

 

[Dave K]

Is this exported as DXF from a drafting sheet, or exported via the Export flat pattern within sheet metal? There are, or at least were, different settings for the line fonts in modeling, and drafting. Maybe something there?



-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10

 

[carlharr]

Hi Dave,

Exported from Sheet Metal, but using File > Export AutoCAD DXF/DWG

I don't use the Export Flat Pattern command anymore, since I discovered that it embeds the units in imperial even for a metric part (fixed in the next version).


I did mess around with the line fonts in Modelling (Sheet Metal) using Visualisation Preferences, but it didn't have any apparent effect on the exported DXF.

Thanks, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3