Question "Present Sheet Templates in our Enviroment"

[designnewz]

I want to add a 2 notes to ALL our Sheet Templates, They are "A", "B", "C", "D", AND "E" size. The question is once I Save the Sheet Template, will the changes occur in present and old files automatic. I am hoping I do not have to replace sheets on OLD DRAWINGS. I am hoping also that's why they call this a Sheet Template. I do Hope this is a easy question.

I do work in the Master Model Concept.

 

[JohnRBaker]

NO, the templates are not 'referenced' files. That is they are all new files and are what they are when the Drawing is initially created.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[designnewz]

That's To Bad. I thought I would save myself some work on old files. But anything new going forward will have the Changes. Some files have 47 sheets So Here we go with another Snap Program for the Old.

What I was thinking since these sheet templates are recorded in a pax file is when I call an old Drawing up that the pax file would call for the new Sheet Template as saved in the Perfect World.

So At Creation The Sheet Template is only used once.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Years ago there was a "Pattern" function that many people used for Drawing Boarders (not 'templates') which could be ADDED to a Drawing file and which was a 'referenced' file that would update existing files if it was edited. Technically, you might be able to do something today using an Assembly structure but I'm not sure that the final behavior would be easy to control and maintain.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[Toost]

a tip which might be helpful, or not.
Is that the note you add on the 47 sheets read the content of an attribute; Should somebody later want to change the text it's done from the attribute in one step rather than cycling through 47 sheets.
We have such labels which is to be visible on all sheets showing a customer reference number. The Cust-ref-no is an attribute which the label reads / shows.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[NutAce]

Actually there is an option to create Associative symbols which UPDATE when the "Master Symbol" is changed.

When placing such an associative symbol you also have the possibility to lock the update.

Available when the Drafting customer default Create Associative Symbols is set.

Creates an associative custom symbol instance that will not update when the master custom symbol changes.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[designnewz]

John, and Toost In The Drawing Space I see 3 parts making up the Drawing sheet. When I highlight lets say in the lower left hand corner I see the name Pattern: and a part number of that file boarder with that said I feel the drawing space is acting like an assembly, and even when I click on the boarder it lights up and if I wanted to delete I could leaving the other 2 so called patterns. The File Name of this Boarder I found out is in Teamcenter and feel if I add a note to this file I would then see the note in all old and new files. That's My Perfect World. I will test this soon on a size we hardly use.