NX3 Exploded View

[ewh]

I am able to create and save exploded views in modeling, but when I try to insert them into a drawing, they are unexploded. What step am I missing? TIA!

 

[looslib]

You must import the exploded view, not insert.


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[ewh]

Ben,

Thanks for the suggestion. I may be able to find a work around for now. The problem I have run into is my trying to follow the documentation, which states:

"Create an exploded view of your assembly (For details on how to do this see the Assemblies Online Documentation).

After you create the exploded view, perform a Fit on the view and save the view.

Go to the drawing and use Insert->View -> Base View to import the view of the exploded view you created in the above steps"

Eric

 

[cowski]

I'm still on NX2 but I ran into a similar problem recently. It seems you need to perform the explosion after you save the veiw.

The top view was my work view, I oriented the view to trimetric and did a save as... (name: my_exp), then did the explosion and finally added the my_exp view on the drawing. It worked, doing it the other way around ended up with my top view being exploded and the my_exp view wasn't.

 

[ewh]

cowski,

Thanks for the tip! Didn't work for me, though. I'll try asking on the BBS next, and then a call to GTAC. It gets frustrating trying to figure out how to do simple operations using the documentation provided.

Eric

 

[cowski]

Also, make sure the explosion is activated (ie it doesn't say 'no explosion' in the explosion toolbar).

 

[ewh]

cowski,

The explosion toolbar is grayed out when I am in drafting. How do you make it active?

Eric

 

[cowski]

Sorry, some clarification is necessary.

I meant when you are in the modeling side the explosion should be active.

 

[ewh]

Gotcha. It has been active. I go back into modeling and the view is still exploded.

 

[feadude]

looslib
I am in NX2. I see no difference between importing a view and inserting a view. Am I missing something?
Thank you

 

[ewh]

After going over this problem with GTAC, It seems that this problem is related to this one drawing file on this one computer.
I am starting the drawing over (using the same drawing seed file) and have had no problems yet.