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Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

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Hello All,

I've been wondering if it's possible to import a part family table in drafting that is linked to the Family Table in the Part Model. I know it's possible to do this in drafting but so far I've only seen it work where the part and drawing are in the same file, which goes against the Master Model Concept. I'm wondering why UG suggests using the Master Model Technique but makes it nearly impossible to use it with the new Drafting Functionality in NX.

Someone I work with said you have to use visual basic to link the spreadsheets in UG. Is there any way to get the part file to show up in the box that appears in the Import Spreadsheet -> Family Table Dialog?

I'd appreciate your input.

Thank you,
Michael

RE: Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

I am interested in this also. I was trying to use the tabular note function in a drawing to add a part family table but could not link to the part family model to import the table info from the part family spreadsheet.

RE: Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

Hi Mike,

  It's been quite a while, but I believe you can use interpart expressions.  If I recall correctly, you have to open the UG spreadsheet & link the cell to whatever expression desired from the other CAD file.  

  If I recall correctly to, this or can be a very time consuming process because you will need to switch back & forth between the two CAD files & kee verifying that you are linking the right expressions.  In addition, you may also have format issues - For example, How many '0's' do you want to see after your decimal point?  I've done this for small tables, but even for small tables, it ends up being more trouble than it's worth....

  Hope this helps.....

Jason Misztal
Power Tool CAD Designer
Marquardt Switches Inc.
www.switches.com
Syracuse, NY

RE: Showing Part Family Table in Master Model Drawing

To get the job done i just created the table and linked expressions and attributes in each cell. It was just a small table this time. I don't think that I'm doing anything wrong,  just think the tabular note function is broken. I'm using NX2 maybe it is something that was fixed in NX3.

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