NX6 Add Leader

[jerry1423]

I cannot figure out how to add a leader to a label in NX6.

The label currently has a leader with it and I want to add another one, but when I try to select the location for the new leader the existing leader moves to that point.

I checked the doc, but it wasn't much help.

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, select you current label, press MB3, select 'Edit', when the dialog comes-up expand the Leader section and then expand the 'List' sub-section. You should see in the ID column of the list a '1' followed by a 'New'. Select the 'New' and then select ANOTHER 'Terminating Object'. You can continue to add or remove Leaders as needed using this 'List' mechanism.

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[jerry1423]

It does not look like I have a "List" subsection under the "Leader" section.
Under "Leader" I have:
Select Terminating Object
Specify Jog Position
Type
Add New Set (greyed out)

 

[JohnRBaker]

Your dialog should look like this:

If it doesn't, try going to the header tool of the dialog, and toggling the 3rd item from the left.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[uwam2ie]

Second leader works, ok
but can I add one leader from the left and the second leader from the right of the text in the edit dialog?
thx in ad

 

[JohnRBaker]

Can you show me a Drafting standard which supports that?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[uwam2ie]

John, you right but what do you say,
when Inventor or... offer this option (the solution to replace)? The other thing is that standards in companies are not common standard they're only orientating at common standards.
thx

 

[Xwheelguy]

uwam2ie,

Make two annotations with leaders (one right side, one left side) and align them on top of each other.

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[JohnRBaker]

Why have standards if we're not going to use them?

When we all worked on the board (well some of us can remember when we did), Standards could only be 'encouraged', but now that we can 'enforce' them, why would we not want to?

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[cowski]

Too bad no one has written a 'modeling' standard yet.

 

[looslib]

I have some company specific Best Practices for Modeling.

The problem with a standrad for modeling is that each software vendor would need some minor corrections/changes to fit their own modeling design guidelines that the software is designed to produce.


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[cowski]

That was a definite tongue-in-cheek comment on my part. I just find it humorous that drafting won't let you do something as simple as attach a leader to both sides of a single note, yet modeling lets you do some crazy things that are almost guaranteed to fail on the next model edit.

I'm aware there are company standards for that sort of thing and an across the board industry standard for modeling practices is impractical if not downright impossible.

I've enjoyed the 'sharing well constructed CAD models' thread, but I have often thought about adding a 'poorly constructed' model to illustrate the dark side of associativity (I've not had the time to construct a spectacularly convoluted part to share publicly, though I have seen many in circulation).

 

[JohnRBaker]

Perhaps then you'd be interested in an 'amazingly constructed' model (I didn't create this, it was done by someone in the UK several years ago who obviously had way too much time on their hands). If you think the outside is impressive make sure that you look at the INSIDE (peek through the 'window', but if you're skilled with the 'navigate' function, 'flying' around the inside can be truly impressive ;-)

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.