Referece picture in NX 3

[cobaltred]

Is there a way to place and size reference photos or .dwgs in NX 7
so that they can be used to draw curves over. Such as TOP,FRONT and
RIGHT profiles of an object.This is easy to do in most cad programs such as Rhino or Solidworks.

Thanks, Buddy.

 

[JohnRBaker]

The command that you're looking for is called 'Raster Image'. This will take an existing TIFF image (photo or line drawing) and create a Planar Surface with the image applied it as a 'texture', which can be referenced as a Sketch plane where you can then 'trace' over the TIFF image with curves.

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[cobaltred]

Thank you that helps out,I could not find any option but TIFF
format. I can do the work around and save as tiff through Photoshop
but why not jpg or png or dxf, dwg, or there are many other
common formats that again is a breeze to setup in say Rhino
or Solidworks? My overall feeling having seen NX and there competitor Catia is that yes they have some powerful surfacing
tools but both seem to make the simplest of common tasks very awkward and cumbersome.Take the title bar creation movies that I
downloaded from this nice forum,all I can say is wow, why
can't these two high end software's work on making the basics simple
and easy to use.

Thanks, I will learn these things and sorry for the spelling error on the topic, my first post.
Buddy.

 

[JohnRBaker]

The 'Raster Image' function was implemented when TIFF was the most common high-resolution image format being used. And since 'Paint' allows you to convert most any format to TIFF, and 'Paint' is included free on all Windows systems, it's not all that much of a hardship.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.