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pgress1-Visitor
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September 15, 2010
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WF5 Show/Erase

  • September 15, 2010
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I'm hunting for hours now, googling and all. Where is the Show/Erase
functionality in WF5 now? I can't find in the Annotations Tab.

Paul

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    wfalco16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    September 15, 2010

    They really like to keep moving that around!

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    pgress1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 16, 2010
    I guess I need to explain a little deeper. I'm trying to show dimension
    with the crosshair in holes without doing it manually with using the
    "break" feature or creating datum curves through circles. Show/Erase is
    suppose to let you choose and axis to get the dimension for a hole with
    a crosshair, at least from what I found out from googling. In WF5,
    Annotate doesn't have any references to axises at all, so hence, I'm
    looking for the old "Show/Erase". Unless someone knows the correct way
    to achieve this in WF5, I'd be obliged.


    Paul



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    pgress1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 16, 2010
    OK, I finally found what I'm looking for thanks to the help from Mark
    von Huben.


    To summarize it:



    Click on the Annotate Tab.

    Click on Show Model Annotations

    On the far right in the "Show Model Annotation" Box click on the icon
    representing Datums.

    Click on a hole, the axises will show up. From here it will display a
    crosshair.



    How is this intuitive? Why do normal hole axises show up under datums,
    it's not even a datum axis I created. A lot of lost productivity.

    Thanks everyone for your help.

    Paul







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    BobSchwerdlin1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    September 16, 2010
    For the most part, all users at my company have experienced the same problems with WF 5.0
    1. Slow performance
    2. Ribbon interface makes editing drawings significantly slower
    3. Show/Erase changes are more cumbersome

    Bob
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    BrentDrysdale12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    September 16, 2010
    Hi Bob,
    We have only just converted over and not everybody is there yet. i did the
    testing for our company for WF5. The push was for the increased
    functionality that users had seen at a release presentation.

    So my comments are based on my testing and for the last couple of weeks of
    use (some of which was switching back and forth to WF4 for library parts).

    I have not seen slow performance for the parts and assemblies I am working
    on (though have not run the numbers to get a quantifiable answer).

    Ribbon Interface for drawing. We are not so big on drawings at our company;
    we are much more focussed on god 3D models. Yes I have to relearn stuff for
    the ribbon approach and yes this is initially slower though the drawing tree
    is such a nice feature I am prepared to forgive a lot. I can easily see
    that for people who do a lot of detailed drawings this will be a painful
    transition.

    Show/Erase changes. Have not worked in drawing enough to show this as a
    problem or otherwise.


    Regards, Brent Drysdale
    Senior Mechanical Designer
    Tait Radio Communications
    New Zealand
    DDI +64 3 358 1093
    www.taitradio.com


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