View boundary settings

[eex23]

Hello all,

where I can find setting for the view boundary offset from the part contours (see attached picture)?

Thanks

NX7.0.1.7
win 7 64bit

 

[MickyV007]

If i assume you want to fill in some value than i have no answer? Otherwise RMB on the view in the part navigator - View Boundary - and change the setting from Automatic Rectangle to Manual View, so you can drawn a rectangle around the view. You could also take half the view so you got something like a break out view.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX7.5.4.4 + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit

 

[JohnRBaker]

Why do you even care what the view's "boundary offset" IS around the model? Unless you manually define a view's boundary, it will automatically resize whenever the content of the view changes, be it when something has been added or removed.

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[eex23]

If I place a lot of views in one drawing sheet, I do not like intersecting view boundary "lines". Sometimes it is dificult to pick appropriate view and so on.
If I change view boundary from automatic to manual rectangle, it does not changes according to model.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Of course not!!! That's why it's called a 'Manual' boundary.

BTW, I never implied that 'Manual' boundaries WOULD update automatically.

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[eex23]

But you wrote in your previous post: "...Unless you manually define a view's boundary, it will automatically resize whenever the content of the view changes...", or I missed smth?

By the way: is there any setting to control this or not?

 

[JohnRBaker]

I don't see anything wrong with what I wrote. It says that UNLESS you manually define a view boundary, it will automatically update when its content changes. Sounds clear to me. Perhaps if I say it this way; The DEFAULT is Automatic view bounds, but if you set a manual boundary, it's NO longer automatic. Does that help?

As to where this is set, just select the Drawing view of interest, press MB3 and select 'Boundary...'. The first time you do that you will see that it's set to 'Automatic Retangle', which is the default UNLESS you change it. If you select 'Manual Rectangle' you will be asked to select two diagonal points. If you set it back to 'Automatic Rectangle' and then select OK/Apply the view bounds will snap back to automatically include everything in the view.

I still haven't heard a good reason to be overly concerned about this since in the Automatic mode, the Drawing view bounds will always be close to being as small as possible.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[eex23]

yes, now i understand what you said about manual boundary: you had in head that the view itself updates correctyl, but not view boundary (if it is manual) its clear and not need any discusion at all.

also i do not want to use manual boundary setting.

as you can see in the attached picture in my previous post, the view boundary is not close as possible (in horizontal direction). I believe, that there is a setting (i think I were able to find it some tome ago) to control this (as I remember it was a slider with %). but now I can not find this :/

 

[JohnRBaker]

What you're thinking of is the setting, which is a slider, that determines how much extra space is around the display on the screen of your model after you perform a 'Fit' operation. However, this is not relevant when working in a Drawing view, but rather in a Modeling view only.

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