ingallspw
Mechanical
- Mar 17, 2009
- 178
To the Quick:
1. I want to be able to shut off the metric tolerancing and simply put the metric numeric value for reference but leave the English tolerance.
2. Is there anyway to have NX convert the rounded value directly to Metric instead of using the more accurate value it took from the model?
3. I'm also open to suggestions and best practices.
Background Info:
This past week I've been getting hit up by our German counterparts. In NX we are using Dual Dimensioning where English is primary.
I'll start with the secondary issue. They've noticed that the English and metric are not rounding to be the clean 25.4" as they expect. eg: 1.35 = [34.2] as apposed to in NX 1.35 = [34.3] by using a calculator. I understand NX is taking the actual value and rounding that (as it should). I really don't know what to tell them about this other than we may start using 3 decimal places on both... i don't know. So... To make people happy... Is there anyway to have NX convert the rounded value directly to Metric instead of using the more accurate value it took from the model?
The issue that bothers me the most is that our plant still uses English (Please don't shoot me... its not something that is going to change soon and I don't want to argue that point.) So everything we have is tooled in English and gets bought off using English. However, in certain cases, the metric value actually comes out tighter. eg: +/- 0.06" = [1.5] reversed however [1.5] = 0.591. Splitting hairs? Yeah. But people love to split hairs. Can't change that either. I want to be able to shut off the metric tolerancing and simply put the metric numeric value for reference. (probably violates ANSI Y1484.536ZZZ 2055)
I'm also open to suggestions and best practices.
1. I want to be able to shut off the metric tolerancing and simply put the metric numeric value for reference but leave the English tolerance.
2. Is there anyway to have NX convert the rounded value directly to Metric instead of using the more accurate value it took from the model?
3. I'm also open to suggestions and best practices.
Background Info:
This past week I've been getting hit up by our German counterparts. In NX we are using Dual Dimensioning where English is primary.
I'll start with the secondary issue. They've noticed that the English and metric are not rounding to be the clean 25.4" as they expect. eg: 1.35 = [34.2] as apposed to in NX 1.35 = [34.3] by using a calculator. I understand NX is taking the actual value and rounding that (as it should). I really don't know what to tell them about this other than we may start using 3 decimal places on both... i don't know. So... To make people happy... Is there anyway to have NX convert the rounded value directly to Metric instead of using the more accurate value it took from the model?
The issue that bothers me the most is that our plant still uses English (Please don't shoot me... its not something that is going to change soon and I don't want to argue that point.) So everything we have is tooled in English and gets bought off using English. However, in certain cases, the metric value actually comes out tighter. eg: +/- 0.06" = [1.5] reversed however [1.5] = 0.591. Splitting hairs? Yeah. But people love to split hairs. Can't change that either. I want to be able to shut off the metric tolerancing and simply put the metric numeric value for reference. (probably violates ANSI Y1484.536ZZZ 2055)
I'm also open to suggestions and best practices.
