Pattern Text With Increment

[pcalonzi2]

Hi Everyone,

Hope everyone had a nice holiday and Happy New Year!! I am working on a fixture in NX8.5.2 and am stumped... I have a pattern of dowel pin positions for where an operator can drop a fixture and would like to add some text to each setup position something like this:

02 04 06 08 10 12 14
| | | | | | |
O O O O O O O

Legend:
Dowel Hole: 0
Scribe Mark: |

The is it possible to control the reference text value using the "Use Spreadsheet" Button inside of the pattern command or somehow control it via pattern increment?

I tried making a dummy sketch with a line in it, patterned it, and set the line length dimension to increment by 2 in the pattern increment window and was able to get the length of the line to grow. Can i get each instance of the text to then call back that value? It seems like a work around but got stuck on getting the text feature to reference. Any other ideas? I know I could write some code but I'm trying to avoid that.


Thank you,
-Patrick


Thank you,
-Pat

 

[pcalonzi2]

All,

My ASCII Art image didn't quite work out as well as expected, The "|" and the text should line up with the O's but you get the concept the main thing is getting the text to increment the formatting is easy.

Thanks,
-Pat

Thank you,
-Pat

 

[kukelyk]

take a look at here:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=337116

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kukelyk