create faceted body
create faceted body
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Hi,
I am using NX 4 and I would like to know, how to automaticaly create a faceted body and put it into reference set automaticaly-using macro or similar..
thanks
V.
I am using NX 4 and I would like to know, how to automaticaly create a faceted body and put it into reference set automaticaly-using macro or similar..
thanks
V.





RE: create faceted body
Just go to Customer Defaults -> Assemblies -> Site Standards and set the default Reference Set names for BOTH the 'Model' and the 'Lightweight' (i.e. Faceted) Reference Sets.
What will happen is that when you Save your part files, the system will automatically create the 'Model' Reference Set, based on the rules as defined in Customer Defaults. And since you have also defined the name of the 'Lightweight' Reference Set, the system will automatically populate it with the appropriate facetted bodies for each solid/sheet body included in the 'Model' Reference Set.
That's it, you're done.
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: create faceted body
You'll need an Advanced Assemblies License to get it to work.
Best regards
Hudson
RE: create faceted body
it works fine. I have tried it and it works also without advanced assemblies licence. The only thing is, that when you set the filter to faceted body, it wont select anything. But the lightweight representation was created.
This leads me to another question. How does UG work with customer defaults settings? For example if we all use UG installed on a server, is it necessary to change customer defaults on every computer separately?
RE: create faceted body
As for your customer default file, no you can create one common one and then set-up an environment varible on each stations point to a single file either on one of the workstations or on you server.
The variable for the 'User' version of enviroment vaiable is:
set UGII_USER_DIR=<set to the path to the default file>
You can also set-up 'Group' and 'Site' paths as well which will allow you to set and lock certain Customer Default settings so that indiviual users can't change them.
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: create faceted body
Thanks
V.
RE: create faceted body
There are reams of posts on this subject in this forum. The short version is that what John describes points you at a local user default file, the system reads that file first, and whatever defaults it sees first it sets first and they persist. Therefore if you only need to set a few user specific defaults the remainder will revet to the main system customer defaults, and the answer to your question should be NO.
Best Regards
Hudson
P.S. don't worry I'm sure I'll get corrected by about forty posts if I have any scintilla of the above wrong.