Increasing display size of saved WCS

[raysapp]

I found in customer defaults where you can change the color of saved coordinate systems, but how about display size. They're not showing up very well in set up sheets.
Thanks

Ray S
NX 7.0.1.7

http://www.appliedprecisionproducts.com

 

[JohnRBaker]

The Saved WCS, along with a bunch of other objects such as the Datum CSYS and other fixed screen sized objects are just that, fixed to a certain screen size and as such can only be changed by changing the apparent scale of the screen. The way to do that is to go to...

Preferences -> Visualization -> View/Screen

...and in the section of the dialog titled 'Session Settings', push the button labeled 'Calibrate'. When the 'Calibrate Screen Resolution' dialog comes up you can adjust the apparent scale by using the horizontal and vertical sliders to increase the size of the displayed circle (you can also use this tool to compensate for any aspect ratio issues which you may have with your display set-up). Now remember, this only effects your 'session' and is not saved with the part file so the actual size of the saved WCS hasn't changed as far as the part file is concerned.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

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

 

[JohnRBaker]

The Saved WCS, along with a bunch of other objects such as the Datum CSYS and other fixed screen sized objects are just that, fixed to a certain screen size and as such can only be changed by changing the apparent scale of the screen. The way to do that is to go to...

Preferences -> Visualization -> View/Screen

...and in the section of the dialog titled 'Session Settings', push the button labeled 'Calibrate'. When the 'Calibrate Screen Resolution' dialog comes up you can adjust the apparent scale by using the horizontal and vertical sliders to increase the size of the displayed circle (you can also use this tool to compensate for any aspect ratio issues which you may have with your display set-up). Note that this only effects your 'session' and is not saved with the part so the actual size of the saved WCS hasn't changed as far as the part file is concerned, but it will be remembered by your system.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[JohnRBaker]

Sorry for the double post, although technically the second one it the correct one (check the end of the last sentence).

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[raysapp]

Thanks John, I'll give that a shot.

Ray S
NX 7.0.1.7

http://www.appliedprecisionproducts.com

 

[markrief]

If these are Datum CSYS, they have a size under the settings group when you edit them.

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[raysapp]

No, these are just saved mcs's. I tried using datum CSYS's but the xyz's don't show up in drafting, and the guys on the floor like seeing which axis is which. This isn't a huge deal, it's just mcs's are a little too subtle for the set up sheets and I have to manually label the origin.

Ray S
NX 7.0.1.7

http://www.appliedprecisionproducts.com