Drawing Sheet Templates

UGS provide several example drawing templates with NX4. These are located in your installation directory [C:\Program Files\UGS\NX 4.0\ugii\html_files].

This directory also contains palette files [.pax] which can be used to create a palette [a tab] on your resource bar in your NX session. The two drawing template files are called english_drawing_templates.pax and metric_drawing_templates.pax.

To read the palette files in NX, select Preferences > Palettes and select the icon for Open Palette File. Browse to the html_files directory and select the desired drawing templates pax file. Note that a new tab appears on the resource bar.

Drafting - Preventing Leaders from Flipping

You've probably noticed that when dragging a dimension or annotation that the leader flips from one side to the other - seemingly uncontrollable. NX is attempting to make an educated guess to what it believes is the most desirable side for the leader based upon the location of the text with respect to the geometry it is attached to.

You can prevent the leader from flipping by holding down the [Ctrl] key while dragging dimensions/annotation, which maintains the current leader side.

-Mav