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JohnRBaker
Mechanical
I didn't want to hijack the Sheet Metal thread from earlier today but felt that users might be interested in this 'Tip' so I started a new one.
When you create a Flat Pattern in NX Sheet Metal and then place the special Flat Pattern view on your Drawing, automatic Annotation gets created which shows the manufacturing/forming information for each brake feature.
Normally these Annotations look like this:
But with a little creative editing of the Sheet Metal Customer Defaults, you can combine the three separate notes into a single Annotation which will look like:
This will make you Drawing look less busy and will also allow you more easily manipulate the Drawing objects for appearance sake since you can now more all three related pieces of Info as a single object.
All that you have to do is go to...
Customer Defaults -> Sheet Metal -> Flat Pattern -> Annotations
...simply Copy & Paste the 'Bend Angle' and 'Bend Direction' text from the 'Content' widgets in the 'Custom Callout 2' and Customer Callout 3' sections of the dialog and paste them into the 'Content' widget in the 'Custom Callout 1' section of the dialog so that if you were to list the contents of this widget it would look like:
Bend Radius = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.radius>
Bend Angle = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.angle>
Bend Direction = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.direction "UP" "DOWN">
You'll also notice that I replaced the lowercase "up" and "down" with UPPERCASE entries since I think this looks better on the final Drawing.
One last thing that you will need to do is that once you've update the 'Content' of the 'Custom Callout 1' (BTW, in my set-up I also changed the 'Name' used for 'Custom Callout 1' to 'Bend Properties' since that's more descriptive of what it now represents) you should go the other two 'Custom Callouts' and toggle OFF both the 'Available' and 'Enabled' options. This way ONLY the new 'Bend Properties' callout will be available to be placed on the Drawing.
Anyway, if you think this is helpful, give it a shot.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
When you create a Flat Pattern in NX Sheet Metal and then place the special Flat Pattern view on your Drawing, automatic Annotation gets created which shows the manufacturing/forming information for each brake feature.
Normally these Annotations look like this:
But with a little creative editing of the Sheet Metal Customer Defaults, you can combine the three separate notes into a single Annotation which will look like:
This will make you Drawing look less busy and will also allow you more easily manipulate the Drawing objects for appearance sake since you can now more all three related pieces of Info as a single object.
All that you have to do is go to...
Customer Defaults -> Sheet Metal -> Flat Pattern -> Annotations
...simply Copy & Paste the 'Bend Angle' and 'Bend Direction' text from the 'Content' widgets in the 'Custom Callout 2' and Customer Callout 3' sections of the dialog and paste them into the 'Content' widget in the 'Custom Callout 1' section of the dialog so that if you were to list the contents of this widget it would look like:
Bend Radius = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.radius>
Bend Angle = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.angle>
Bend Direction = <!KEY=0,3.2@UGS.direction "UP" "DOWN">
You'll also notice that I replaced the lowercase "up" and "down" with UPPERCASE entries since I think this looks better on the final Drawing.
One last thing that you will need to do is that once you've update the 'Content' of the 'Custom Callout 1' (BTW, in my set-up I also changed the 'Name' used for 'Custom Callout 1' to 'Bend Properties' since that's more descriptive of what it now represents) you should go the other two 'Custom Callouts' and toggle OFF both the 'Available' and 'Enabled' options. This way ONLY the new 'Bend Properties' callout will be available to be placed on the Drawing.
Anyway, if you think this is helpful, give it a shot.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
