Text in modeling/drafting

[eex23]

Hello,

please look at the attached picture. What option should be switched on/of to have correct view in drafting?

Thanks

NX7.0.1.7 mp2
win xp 32bit

 

[Jaydenn]

I can think of a few options...

1. Put the modelling text onto a seperate layer and use the "VISIBLE IN VIEW" drafting command.

2. Use the "VIEW DEPENDENT EDIT" option and simply delete the text from the drafting view.

I personally use the "VISIBLE IN VIEW" command all the time to control what shows on my drawings.

J

NX 6.0.5.3

 

[eex23]

The problem is not to make this text visible/not visible, but text must be hidden normaly (in drafting mode) by solid bodys geometry, like in model view.

 

[Xwheelguy]

The issue is that the text appears to be just that.....text and NOT geometry. Therefore, the software cannot depict the view correctly since there are no EDGES to hide, only text.

Model the text into the solid body and you won't have this issue.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

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[wecurb]

Suggestion, change your pardigm. Don't plunk an annotation on it but use the Insert-Curve-Text option. Then extrude it in or out.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You don't even have to make a 'solid' using the letters. Simply Extrude the 'Text' object a 'zero' distance which will produce a sheet body. Then just make sure that the sheet bodies (there will be one created for each letter in the 'note') are included in the Model Reference Set and that the 'Text' curves are NOT, and you should be good to go.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[Toost]

Have you tried:
RMB the View ( or double click) Style... - Hidden Lines - Include Model Curves ???

It should not need any Solid / Surface type data to work.
It might take a little extra time to process if the model is large / complex but apart from that it should do the trick.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[eex23]

TO Toost: yes, i tried, but this trick did not work for me.

I use method mr. J.Baker offered : extrude text with 0 length and place text curves in other layer.

 

[Toost]

I just tried my own method.
If the text is created as a "Note" in Drafting it doesn't work.
If the text is created as "Insert - Curve - text" in Modeling, it does work.
The text in the image looks like a Note.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[eex23]

No, it is not a note.
Look at the attached. It seems that system hides only whole symbol, and cannot hide part of it (red circles in the picture)

 

[Toost]

I think you are right. I happened to have the characters placed such that the entire character became hidden.
But when i move the text such that only part of the character should be visibe NX either keeps the entire character or erases the entire character.