×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

How to create Macro

How to create Macro

How to create Macro

(OP)
Hi

How to create macro for taking cross-section and dumping in layer.

After importing part in UG, it should take lathe cross section and dump the cross section in particular layer.

RE: How to create Macro

Why are you creating a 'lathe' cross-section?  Our NC Turning module allows for the automatice creation of an associative cross-section to be used to provide the profile used to create the toolpaths.  When done as part of a Master Model NC model, there is no need to segregate the profile to a different layer since that profile will only exist in the NC model and not the Part model.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

RE: How to create Macro

What version of NX are you using ?

Like John since NX4 you can use the solid model to "Spin" a lathe profile.  Make sure you have a Workpiece defined, (this is the same "workpiece" object that is in milling) and pick the Solid model as the part geometry.
When you edit the turn_workpiece the boundary should already be there. See the attached image.

John Joyce
Tata Technologies iKS
1675 Larimer St.
Denver, CO
www.myigetit.com

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources