shaded drawing view

Is the shaded view the only view on the drawing? Does the drawing include any views with 'thick outlines' that you have had trouble with a while back?

What sort of 'lines' are you using View Dependent Edit to remove from the view? Are these edges from a solid or separate curves that you no longer wish to see?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Cowski, no it's not the only view on the drawing. All the other views are wireframe views. They have the thick outlines. If the view that I change to shaded had the thick outlines I have tried changing them back to the default thickness. All i got was thinner lines in addition to the shading.

John, basically what I get is the shaded view, like you see in Modeling, AND the wireframe in the same view. I can remove the wireframe by going in View Dependent Edit. I've found it's easiest by setting the filter to Edge and dragging a box around the entire view. The wireframe goes away on the drawing but shows up in the PDF.

I should note here that I have had a couple of drawings that have turned out just fine, PDF and all.

Mike

I have to ask, WHY do you wish to see the Shaded drawing view without the edges being visible?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I'll answer you're question with another. : ) Why would you NOT want to see it that way? When you shade your part in Modeling you don't see the wireframe. I would think a person would expect to see the same thing in a shaded drawing view.

I know it can be done because I've had a couple of drawings turn out 'correct', with all of the wireframe invisible. I've also had a couple have only some of the wireframe invisible. Maybe it has something to do with the order in which things are done. Or maybe because some were originally created in an older version of NX they're getting screwed up.

Just as an FYI, the reason we're doing this is because some of our competitors are doing it too. We want to be seen as having the same capabilities as they do. The few drawings we've seen have a shaded view without any wireframe lines. And besides, personally I think it looks better that way.

Mike

Mike,

Can you attach an image of what you're seeing?

And NX version?

Cheers

Hudson

Here's a couple pics. They're not as great as I would have liked but they should show what I'm talking about.

The 'dwg_view' pic shows the shaded view from the drawing. It may not be the easiest to tell, but the wireframe lines are all gone. I turned them off or whatever through View Dependent Edit.

The 'pdf_view' pic is from the PDF file that was made from the drawing. In this particular case most of the wireframe lines are gone except for the ones around what we call the finish, the threaded portion at the top of the bottle.

I have had one or two drawings that had the wireframe lines gone in both the drawing and the PDF, and one or two where all of the lines show up in the PDF, not just the finish.

Mike

Oops. Apparently you can only link one file. Here's the 'dwg_view' file.


Mike

At the moment, the best that you can do in a shaded drawing view, under the View Style, is turn OFF 'Smooth Edges' and 'Silhouettes'. The 'Hard Edges' will always be displayed. The only way to get a shaded view on your drawing to look exactly like the modeling view with no edges displayed is to capture a .tif file of the modeling view and add it as an image file to the drawing.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.