NX6 DATUM PLANE SHADE

[TomMtz]

Hi friends

I have a problem with NX6, when I create a new model, I need to create many datum planes too. The problems is when I "turn on" many of them, the visibility of the principal part is to poor (see attch. photo).
Some of you knows how to eliminate the "shade" in datum plane?.
Probably user of NX3 to NX6 understand this situation.

Thanks for your attention and help.

Tom

 

[phillpd]

Go to Preferences-Visualization Performance, the General Graphics tab and toggle off Disable Plane Translucency.

 

[TomMtz]

Phill

Thank a lot for your help, your comment was correct.

Best regards.

Tom

 

[hudson888]

You may want to change this in templates and customer defaults for good measure. Most of the time we've become used to it but it is a little alien coming from earlier to later versions. I hate to put the cat among the pigeons but I do also tend to distribute entities across layers once the numbers become so as to be difficult to manage. I would never for example have what appears to be dozens of datum planes on a single layer.

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Hudson

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[JohnRBaker]

Another thing that we have done starting in NX 7.0 to mitigate the need to move Datums to other layers is to automatically 'internalize' them when used to position a Sketch. Once you leave the Sketch task the Datum will be made internal to the Sketch (just like Sketches are made internal to the feature being created) thus removing them both visually from the display as well as physically from the Part Navigator. Note that this behavior is user controlable.

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[hudson888]

Good idea. Can you toggle it on and off in case you later decide to use the datum for something external to the sketch in the same way that sketches may be internal or external from hole patterns and extrudes etc? If and when you do so so have some pity for us poor users who are beset by people who think that the only good feature tree is a short one. I suspect people will reuse objects and then try to internalise them is such a way as to make analysing their models practically impossible. Thank goodness for synchronous modelling tools is all that I can say to that!

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Hudson

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