Legacy Delphi Corporate Drawing Format Program


The Legacy Delphi Drawing Format program allows the user to easily add/modify drawing formats in NX. The program is very flexible is defining how a format looks and where user text goes. Almost any format can be defined for use by the program without the need for program modification. A site/division can include their special formats and blocks using the supplied format definition program.

Running the Program

Use the following steps to run the program:

  1. Select Start->Drafting on the NX main menubar, and place a "No Border" drawing from Insert Sheet dialog.
  2. Select Tools-Delphi Tools->Legacy Drawing Format… or press the icon on the toolbar.

Main Interface

The main dialog presents several options. The options on the top relate to the format on the current format. The rest relate to a specific block on the format.

NOTE: All operations refer to the currently displayed drawing.

Options are disabled/enabled according to whether the option can currently be performed.

Program Version Information

The information at the top of the main dialog contain relevant information about the program. The first line specifies the program version. The second line specifies the date that the corporate formats were last modified.

Format Operations

Add/Replace Format

Adds or replaces a format on the current drawing. The operation performed depends on the existance of a format on the current drawing. If no format exists, then an add format is performed. Otherwise, the program will proceed to replace the existing format.

Once Add/Replace Format is selected, the following dialog will be displayed:

The components of the dialog are:

If a format is already on the drawing, the format and size will be selected. Select from the available format categories in the Category option menu. Pick from the available formats and choose the format size. Now press the OK button to accept the selections. If a format is currently on the drawing, a confirmation dialog will appear asking whether to proceed. Any current format will be deleted and the new format will be added to the drawing. The drawing will also be resized to the selected size.

NOTE: If the old format has blocks that are available on the new format, they will be retained

Resize Format

The option allows format size to be changed. A dialog will appear with a menu of the available sizes for the format. The current size will be selected. Choose the new size and the format will be resized.

Delete Format

Deletes the format from the current drawing.

Verify Block Locations

The geometry is sometimes misplaced due to current limitations of NX and/or the program. Verify Block Locations will make sure all blocks and notes are in the correct locations

Recreate Notes

If Verify Block Locations fail to make the corrections, Recreate Notes will recreate all the format notes on the drawing.

Update Format

Updates the format to the latest format definition on disk.

NOTE: This only needs to be done when prompted that there is a new definition for the format available.

Block Operations

Add Block

A selection dialog will appear with the following options:

Choose the wanted category and then the block to add in the block selection dialog. Choose OK to dismiss the dialog and add the selected block. Choose Apply to add the block but keep the dialog active.

Modify Block

Select the block to edit and press the OK button. The block modification dialog will appear allowing the user to modify the information.

Delete Block

Select the block to delete from the dialog and press OK.

Move Block

Select the block to move on the dialog and press the OK button. Select the new lower left location of the block.