How can I make standard holes easier?
How can I make standard holes easier?
(OP)
Hello!
I’m a Mold Designer from Hungary.
I’m using NX4 and NX5.
I have to make a lot of holes every day (Simple, Counterbore, Countersink) ... I stay a lot of time to complete all fields every time.
So, I would like to make these standard holes easier, with drop-down menus or anything. (For example: I can drop down the “normal metric menu” and I can choose the Counterhole of the M8 screw.).
I made it with macros, but they don’t work well every time …it’s terrible. :(
Has anybody a good idea?
If I write the standard sizes in a spreadsheet, can I call them in easily? How?
Thank you the answers!
I’m a Mold Designer from Hungary.
I’m using NX4 and NX5.
I have to make a lot of holes every day (Simple, Counterbore, Countersink) ... I stay a lot of time to complete all fields every time.
So, I would like to make these standard holes easier, with drop-down menus or anything. (For example: I can drop down the “normal metric menu” and I can choose the Counterhole of the M8 screw.).
I made it with macros, but they don’t work well every time …it’s terrible. :(
Has anybody a good idea?
If I write the standard sizes in a spreadsheet, can I call them in easily? How?
Thank you the answers!
Róbert Boros
Mechanical Engineer
Injection Mold Designer
Hungary
www.bausch.hu





RE: How can I make standard holes easier?
Gary Ashby
Designer
RE: How can I make standard holes easier?
John R. Baker, P.E.
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UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
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RE: How can I make standard holes easier?
Thank you very much for your help!
I didn't know the UDF, but I tried it.
I think it is very helpful.
I will use it in NX4 and I'm waiting the UGS NX 5.0.2.x.
Have a nice day!
Róbert Boros
Mechanical Engineer
Injection Mold Designer
Hungary
www.bausch.hu
RE: How can I make standard holes easier?
I like solidworks' hole wizard. I hope this will be similar
I haven't used this but it looks good.
http://www.sea4ug.com/HPE.htm
RE: How can I make standard holes easier?
For creation of Hole Features , in an structured way , we have developed an utility : make_standart_hole
It is a freeware program and available in
http://www.ugsoftstore.com/download.asp
Please , sign in as a member and download from Applications section ...
Current version runs under NX4 ... Although we did not test it for NX2 and NX3 , you should be able to run the utility with previous versions (NX2,NX3) also ...
basically , the utility uses dialogs for allowing user to select hole type , followed by selection of a face where the holes will be created and lastly the point selection dialog to set the center of holes...
Please readme.txt for installation guides ... and *.dat files for customizing the utility for your own requirements.
Regards ,
Karl Oppenheimer
www.ugsoftstore.com