Nougatti
Mechanical
- Jun 29, 2012
- 36
Hi there
Thought I might bother you all with some more reference-set whining.
I'm making drawings of a dam, and this dam contains certain pipes and gates surrounded by concrete. Now, for the recess-plan-drawings of this dam, I need to show the dam as it looks like when it's under construction, since the bars holding pipes and gates in place in the concrete won't be visible in the final product. To make them visible, I can cut away the concrete around these pipes and their bars in MODELING to show how they are placed in the first stages of concreting (before the dam is finished). This is fine and dandy and looks badass in the drawing.
Moving on, I'm making drawings of the assembly of the entire dam. Here, the main components (gates, pipes, ladders etc) themselves are in focus, and the dam needs to look like it does when it's completed.
In SolidWorks (which I'm the most used to), I could easily make sure that the feature that cut away concrete for the recess-plan-drawing would be supressed in that drawing, and I did this with "configurations".
In NX6, however, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make/control reference sets with "finished dam" and "partially-finished-dam-for-easier-placement-of-bars".
tl;dr
All I want to do is to have the exact same concrete-part in both the recess-plan-drawing and the arrangement-drawing but to have a specific feature or features of the concrete-part supressed in the recess-plan one. I don't know if reference sets can do that for me.
I think what I want is an "arrangement" but in a single part, and that instead of it controlling the presense of components, controlling whether features are there or not.
I hope I made myself clear.
Best regards
Nougatti
Tom you can't knit at these speeds! Nobody can! DON'T BE A GODDAMNED HERO TOM!
Thought I might bother you all with some more reference-set whining.
I'm making drawings of a dam, and this dam contains certain pipes and gates surrounded by concrete. Now, for the recess-plan-drawings of this dam, I need to show the dam as it looks like when it's under construction, since the bars holding pipes and gates in place in the concrete won't be visible in the final product. To make them visible, I can cut away the concrete around these pipes and their bars in MODELING to show how they are placed in the first stages of concreting (before the dam is finished). This is fine and dandy and looks badass in the drawing.
Moving on, I'm making drawings of the assembly of the entire dam. Here, the main components (gates, pipes, ladders etc) themselves are in focus, and the dam needs to look like it does when it's completed.
In SolidWorks (which I'm the most used to), I could easily make sure that the feature that cut away concrete for the recess-plan-drawing would be supressed in that drawing, and I did this with "configurations".
In NX6, however, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make/control reference sets with "finished dam" and "partially-finished-dam-for-easier-placement-of-bars".
tl;dr
All I want to do is to have the exact same concrete-part in both the recess-plan-drawing and the arrangement-drawing but to have a specific feature or features of the concrete-part supressed in the recess-plan one. I don't know if reference sets can do that for me.
I think what I want is an "arrangement" but in a single part, and that instead of it controlling the presense of components, controlling whether features are there or not.
I hope I made myself clear.
Best regards
Nougatti
Tom you can't knit at these speeds! Nobody can! DON'T BE A GODDAMNED HERO TOM!
Yes, I am running NX6, version 6.0.5.3 to be exact. How can one click the link to this thread without reading the thread title first?