NX 8?'s 1

[lorenolepi]

Got a few questions regarding NX 8..

With the boarders/zones features is it recommended to update all drawing templates to utilize them? Is the way of the future with the zone locations etc?

Setting up the drawing wizard/workflows is this included with the drafting license?

How does the new suppression of lower sub-assy components effect arrangments?

SNAP...How limited is it and what is the lic needed for it?

With the new enhancements of the direct sketch is the task environment going to be obsolete in the up coming releases? Also is there a way to associate the newly created datum cycs with absolute upon creating the sketch? It seems strange to me that the sketches now will make them internal because I'm so used to creating most of my sketches from the absolute datums. (I know about the make internal setting within the customer defaults)

 

[JohnRBaker]

It's up to you whether you update your current Drawing templates or not, but of course, you can't take advantage of the new functionality without updating/replacing them.

Yes, all you need is the normal Drafting license.

As for the Component suppression question, if you're referring to the 'Edit Suppression State' enhancement it shouldn't have any effect whatsoever since it doesn't really provide any new behavior other then during selection of Components (allowing you to select from any level of the Assembly). There is nothing special about the 'Suppression' states, just how they were defined.

It's more limited than general NX Open (but it's still a work in progress) and yes, a new license is needed.

I've heard of NO plans to drop the explicit Sketch 'task' environment.

As to the internal Datum CSYS's, you can set-up the system so that it behaves as it did in the past, just that with the new scheme, Sketches, and the features created from them, will support Copy & Paste better as well as when adding the Sketch, or the features created from a Sketch, to the Reuse Library. By including a Datum CSYS with the Sketch, they can exist as a standalone object without having to identify new references when you Paste or download a Sketch, or a feature created from a Sketch, from the Reuse Library. And for the record, this new Sketch CSYS functionality was introduced in NX 7.5.

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[lorenolepi]

Thanks for the info!
Saw a demo the other day at one of the local siemens offices and thought that the drawing workflow with the tittle block and views was cool for out of the box stuff. Its nice to know that it comes with the drafting license. Is it possible to copy that information from one template to the next? Can you set them up as a pattern and still have all of there functionality? Or do you have to perform a save as to the original? The reason I ask is because we have a ton of drawing templates and I wasn't sure if we could just import them in to the existing ones somehow. (we use Teamcenter, so I was hoping of just bumping up the revision of the existing one)
I also really like the new sheet and zone location annotation. Is it possible to append the zone and sheet info automatically to the view call out through the customer defaults? (in the past we have changed the text size by adding the control characters <C1.5> to the view call out and leaving the name of the view at the regular height)
Glad to hear that there is no news of taking away the task environment. I have been so use to the task environment style with the prior releases and because of some of the limitations in NX 7.5 direct sketch I have stayed the away from them all together, but with the improvements and the extra functionality I am second guessing it now.

 

[loki3000]

is 8 available yet or is it still in beta?

 

[uwam2ie]

@lorenolepi
my experience with nx8 sofar:
about drawing- frame and titleblock - works fine only lack is that there is no relation between the titleblock location and the border - when you edited the sheetsize(zone) - I did a call hope they fix it.. Really nice works the reworked attributes. The drawing wizard okay you must like them - some pretty things inside ... more the peters princple.
Snap I testing ... - grip hope ;-)
reg.

 

[JohnRBaker]

NX 8.0 has been available for download from the GTAC support site since September 2nd, and this is the full production release, NOT beta. Note that the first MR (Maintenance Release) is planned for shortly after the first of the year.

As for the question about the new functionality being compatible with the use of 'patterns', sorry but the time has come to stop using them and move over to the officially supported Drawing border scheme, as now provided for in NX 8.0. Of course this also means that there is no easy or simple way to 'update' existing drawings, replacing the current Drawing borders, be they patterns or whatever, with a new 'smart' Drawing border.

As for automatic view labeling you can set a View Preference where the the label for a Detail view will be either the normal 'Letter' callout or you can assign it the Sheet and/or Zone location of the Detail view instead.

As for the Sketch 'task' environment, I personally prefer that myself, although lately I've been experimenting with doing the initial sketch creation using the 'task' mode but doing the editing in the 'direct' mode, which you can control on the 'Edit' tab in Modeling Preferences.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

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http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

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