Re-Order Reference Sets
Re-Order Reference Sets
(OP)
Is there any way of re-ordering the list of reference sets in a part other than removing them all and re-creating them in the order you want them displayed?
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer





RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
The reference sets contain very basic solids and sheets. The geometry is all driven by a few key dimensions. The only alternative I can think of is to split each ref set into a part however that would require controlling 50 parts instead of one and the employment of some overlly complex wavelinking for the task.
As you can imagine, with a list of 50+ ref sets and the possibility that new ref sets may need to be added to the part at a later date the need to sort this list becomes obvious.
Especially as this part will be used by up to a hundred people on a day to day basis.
Is there any manual "hack" to the part that could be done?
In other words are the ref sets stored as a text list somwhere in the .prt that a hex editor could tweak?
Cheers,
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer
To a Designer, the glass was right on CAD.
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
Are you using a master assembly with reference sets to turn parts of it on and off?
If that is the case then I wonder whether you should define zones or filters in the part instead?
Cheers
Hudson
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Re-Order Reference Sets
Folding a widget can get complicated and rather difficult using various files. Having reference sets in a single file is only a click-change away. The pain is figuring out what order they keep in. We have a layer of text that shows the cheat sheet method, but that too is only a work around since the reference set menu is really lame at best.
Yes, having a re-order ability in the reference set menu would be greatly useful.