Make an edge stand out to the user in drafting!!!

[NXJockey]

I have come to this from many directions, initially i wanted to create a custom line font (not dots or dashes)to make a an edge of a model in a drafting view really stand out to the user.... not possible

I cant use line thickness's due to another downstream process being dependent upon them.....


so........

I thought, i'll use grip, to put a row of points along the edge, in the drafting view.

I can select the edge, but then get an error, when trying to insert the points.

i'm at the stage of trying anything now to make a selected edge in a drawing view stand out.

any ideas?

Cheers,

NXj

 

[jerry1423]

You can view dependent edit them and change the font, width, or color, of them only in the particular drawing view if desired.

edit > view > view dependent edit

 

[JohnRBaker]

You want to highlight EDGES, as opposed to WHAT?

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[pracslipkerm]

Another idea might be to add a datum to the edge...


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Cheers
Steve Griffiths

 

[NXJockey]

I got there in the end, here's how.....

There is a section in the online doc about line fonts, at the very bottom, there is a couple of lines about creating a new font using a symbol.

So i created a symbol using a couple of very short lines which are offset from each other by a very small amount, and used this symbol for the line font.......

So for specific edges of the model, in any view on my drawing, i can make make the edge appear extra thick, (the rest of the edges are thick already) by using the a view dependent edit.

If you zoom in (a lot) you can see that it is 2 lines, but as NX thinks this is just the font of a single line, dimensioning etc works just fine.

So i now have thin, normal, thick and a 'fake' extra thick line which plot etc. without up-setting any down stream process...

i like days like today.

Cheers,

NXj

 

[hudson888]

NXJockey,

If you happen to come back to this it might be interesting to see what you've achieved and why? Perhaps just in some images or something with a brief explanation. Like John I was at odds to imagine what you really expected with this question.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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