trailing zeros in text anotation with expressions

[Tisho]

Hello Community,

I am trying to create a text anotation to dimension a chamfer. I am using a relation to show the chamfer parameters/expressions in the text box.I encounter two problems(ref. to the attached image).
1)I am getting two zeros after the floating point and
2)I want to change the leader as it is shown on the image.

The white fraction of the image is what it should be, the greyed one is illustrating point 1) and 2)

Please, advise.

Greetings

Tish

 

[JohnRBaker]

What version of NX are you using?

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[Tisho]

Ahhh poor me .

NX6.0.0.24

Greets

Tish

 

[JohnRBaker]

Have you tried to just create a Chamfer Dimension straight-away?

Shown below is how you shouls the Annotation Preferences before you create the Chamger dimension:

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[Tisho]

Wonderful. It worked as you said John. Thank you.

I didn't try to create the chamfer because I couldn't find it. I recently moved from CATIA to NX and the interface is pretty new for me. I wonder how I have under seen this tool and went that far with the text/expression options.

Greetings

Tish

 

[JohnRBaker]

BTW, I didn't mention this before, but on that same dialog shown above, the entry box labeled 'Space' controls the relative size of the 'gap' between the numbers and the 'X'. Also note that in later versions of NX you have control over whether the 'X' is upper or lower case as well.

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.

 

[Tisho]

Good to know either. Thumb's up!

Greetings

Tish

 

[looslib]

Why allow an option that violates the standard? ASME Y14.5 shows that the 'X' used for repetitive dimensions is upper case. Also. all lettering on the face of a drawing (unless an accepted abreviation or standard nomenclature) should be in upper case per ASME Y14.2.
Looking at the original JPEG, the OP used the lower case option for the 'x'.


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