Feature Sets
Feature Sets
(OP)
I am using NX2 and I am being told to use "feature sets" to group features together in the part navigator but i cant find "feature sets" anywhere in the toolbars or commands. Any help will be appreciated. thanks





RE: Feature Sets
Can I ask, why were you 'told' to use 'feature sets' and what is the anticipated benefit that you're expecting to get?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Feature Sets
RE: Feature Sets
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Feature Sets
RE: Feature Sets
Jetsetter, pending a good reason from John perhaps, it seems like your company may be somewhat errant in their emphasis on things that really aren't that important. I have and do use feature sets from time to time as means to manage the contents of the feature list for convenience sake, nothing more or less for what it is worth. I suspect we're somewhat similarly experienced, and I agree that some companies have their heads in the sand as to the best way to use UG and sometimes come up with restrictive ideas that tend to waste the capacity it has to be used to its best advantage.
Regards
Hudson
RE: Feature Sets
Additionally, and more importantly to all us anal types that like our updates to update correctly, the instance geometry feature in NX5 gives us a means to associatively define the horizontal reference vector in an array. Prior to this, once you define the array the horizontal reference is forever set and doesn't/can't be changed (prolly didn't realize that did you?). Basically what this means is that prior to NX5 if you create an XY pattern w/the horiz ref in the 3:00 position, and rotate the pattern 30 degrees, the horiz ref would stay in the orig direction instead of updating to the 2:00 position as you would expect. NX5 solves this... and is making my job a whole lot easier in the process!
Hope this helps...
Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?
RE: Feature Sets
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Feature Sets
Forever Young