NX5: Can you display all external references?
NX5: Can you display all external references?
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Hi,
Is it possible to display all references to a .prt file in NX5?
For example, if I open a part file, is there an easy way to show all assemblies, sub-assemblies and drawings that reference it?
Cheers,
Simon
Is it possible to display all references to a .prt file in NX5?
For example, if I open a part file, is there an easy way to show all assemblies, sub-assemblies and drawings that reference it?
Cheers,
Simon





RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
I know of no way to do so in Native, but if you have Teamcenter then it will displayed under references.
Cheers
Hudson
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
Now Simon was using a term "external references" That if I'm guessing right refers to a lot more that just what ugpc.exe does and he probably picked it up elsewhere. One of the things ugpc won't do is look up the tree using a component to discover what drawing or other downstream use is made of it in other assemblies. That is a pretty big task by the way if you think of it in terms of knowing what files are related right throughout the entire file system of your machine or even and organization's network.
The other task one step beyond that would be to know which files all the linked geometry and expressions are drawn from. Again it isn't something for which I'm aware of any such function in native. I suppose that two or more versions of the same file may exist on a system to further complicate things as well.
Anyway that's what I can tell you.
Cheers
Hudson
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
However, this is the sort of thing that PDM systems, like TeamCenter can do in seconds if properly set up.
So the bottom line, if you expect to perform these types of searches, you should seriously consider the longterm benefit of moving to TeamCenter, noting that there are many more reasons to use a PDM system, but certainly fast searches is one of really useful ones.
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RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
S
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
S
RE: NX5: Can you display all external references?
We will getting Teamcenter sometime soon, so hopefully that'll help things!
Cheers,
Simon