Updating to Boders and Zones from drawing templates with patterns

[lorenolepi]

Been working on updating my templates with the new NX 8 borders and zones. The new documentation is really good but created this doc a supplement for when I go back and finish the rest of my templates and figured I would share for those of you going to update your templates. This is in no way complete or gospel. Just some notes as I was going through it. Hope it helps!

 

[JohnRBaker]

In your document, the last entry seemed to indicate that you will need an 'NX Drafting Plus' license to use these border and title-block features in NX 8.0. Where and why did you come to that conclusion? I just tested NX 8.0 and created a new drawing border master, including a title block, and marked it as a Drawing Template and the only license I needed, in addition to Gateway, was the normal NX Drafting license.

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[lorenolepi]

Sorry if that was misleading, I was trying to indicate the regions and drawing automation features needed a drafting plus license, in which case my machine does not have, so I received an error msg.
I couldn't see any reason to mark the file as a template without having the extra license except for it creating the pax file automatically for you.
I ended up just staying with a copy of my NX 7.5 pax's, that were already completed and looked cleaner (multi-line). I went on without marking the part files as templates and they seemed to work (I havn't done full testing yet...). Does marking the part file as a template do anything else that I'm not seeing?

 

[JohnRBaker]

May I suggest that you contact GTAC and have them look at the 'error' that you got. I checked my license log and I never had a single moment where the NX Drafting Plus license was being checked-out. Exactly what were you doing when you got this 'error msg' indicating that a Drafting Plus license was needed?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[lorenolepi]

Once I marked the file as a template, the region and drawing automation options became available...when I tried to use them the error appeared stating that I needed the drafting plus license.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You don't have to use the functions on the 'Drawing Automation' dialog to leverage the new Sheet and Zone information on a drawing. For example, you can create a Note which references the Sheet and/or Zone location by using the 'Relationships' option when creating a note and this will not require a NX Drafting Plus license.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[lorenolepi]

Yeah I realize that. All I was trying to get across with the last statement in the file I shared was that the users can't access the region or drawing automation with out a drawing plus license.
Is there any harm if you don't mark the file as a template if you already have the pax file created?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Not sure. Never tried it.

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.