Hole centerline in Modeling 1

[IBC]

I hope someone can give me a tip on this:
Using NX5, if I created on sketch level a rectangle with a circle in it, finish and extrude to create a block with a hole through all, done.
My question: will the program automatically create centerline for the hole (like construction line as some other programs do), or I have to create an axis for this hole on my own?

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you were to create a Drawing, the Drafting module would automatically add centerline symbols to the 'hole', but there is nothing equivalent to that in modeling itself and certainly not anything which gets created in an automatic fashion Now if you have the PMI module you can add an explicit 3D centerline to the 'hole', but you still have to perform this operation manually (but you can select all of the 'hole' in a single gesture so it's not very tedious an operation to perform, just a couple of button clicks and screen picks).

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