How to mate two planes together in NX4
How to mate two planes together in NX4
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Does anyone know how to mate a plane in a part with a plane in the assembly level. The problem is that the plane on the part is not visible when I go to select it in the assembly, unless I make that part the work part, then I cannot make an assembly mate. Any ideas from anyone????
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RE: How to mate two planes together in NX4
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
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RE: How to mate two planes together in NX4
Thank you much
RE: How to mate two planes together in NX4
Note that if you set your system up properly, in addition to the two default Reference Sets, 'Entire Part' and 'Empty', both of which should be self-explanatory, the system will also create 2 additional ones automatically. Those are called 'Model' and 'Facet'. The 'Model' Reference Set, as I mentioned above, will automatically contain the solid bodies of your model while the 'Facet' will contain a lightwieght faceted representation of whatever bodies are in the 'Model' Reference Set. Also, anytime you make changes in the future to your model, these 2 auto-Reference Sets will be updated.
Now one precaution, since you've just learned about Reference Sets, please let the system work the way it's set up to work. That means DON'T create Reference Sets in part file which are Assemblies, that is they contain only Components and no bodies. While it can be done, we don't recommend it since Reference Sets also act af 'filters' (and in a way that's the way they are intended to work, which you look at how they do what they do for you), but in the case of an Assembly, if you filter-out a component, that can be problematic, particularly if that component was an assembly (sub-assembly) itself.
Anyway, use them as I've described and you should be very happy with them.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: How to mate two planes together in NX4
Thanks again for this explanation, I am a new user and this helps out alot.
RE: How to mate two planes together in NX4
I didn't get that 'precaution' in mind
but I'll surely investigate on it.
Thanks.