NX12 doesnt read under score ( _ ), instead shows a box symbol

[bhollehday]

When I create a parts list any underscores that are inside of the parts name show up as square box symbols. Is there any way around this without having the rename the part?

 

[Dave K]

Could be a font issue, have you tried using a different one for the parts list?

-Dave

NX 12, Windchill 11

 

[NutAce]

Definitely a font issue. Select a different font in your Note settings (Drafting preferences).

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[Toost]

as mentioned but not explained.
In NX , if using the "old-style-Unigraphics-fonts" such as "blockfont", that font does NOT contain especially many characters. You will be missing quite a few that are common today.
This is because that when that type of font was initially created ( John Baker can tell more about this.)
it was defined in/for ASCII both input and output, and as all computer users does know, ASCII," Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters"
( from Wikipedia)
Anyhow, due to the that limitation, the Unigraphics fonts did not contain "all known characters" , the European special characters was missing among others.
Later, the input into NX has been expanded to use Unicode ( "any character and any language") and also these "Unigraphics-fonts" have been expanded to include more characters.
but, NX can now also use standard windows fonts such as Truetype.
Try one of these fonts and that underscore should appear.

Another significant aspect of the Unigraphics fonts is that they are defined to be plotted by a pen plotter, there can not be varying line thickness or filled characters as in True Type fonts.

Regards,
Tomas