Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
(OP)
Has anyone noticed that the Reference Set item count doesn't update correctly when de-selecting components?
For instance, say you had a part with 4 subcomponents; by default the 'Model' Reference Set will show 4 objects. Oftentimes I've noticed that if you try de-selecting (Shift Select) components, the object count doesn't accurately reflect the remaining components. For instance, de-selecting all components should leave 0 members of the Reference Set, but the dialogue box still shows members.
If you exit the dialogue box, then re-enter (Format > Reference Sets), the number updates correctly. Argh.
For instance, say you had a part with 4 subcomponents; by default the 'Model' Reference Set will show 4 objects. Oftentimes I've noticed that if you try de-selecting (Shift Select) components, the object count doesn't accurately reflect the remaining components. For instance, de-selecting all components should leave 0 members of the Reference Set, but the dialogue box still shows members.
If you exit the dialogue box, then re-enter (Format > Reference Sets), the number updates correctly. Argh.





RE: Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
However, I tested this using NX 6.0.2.8 and whether I'm creating Reference Sets in a master part file (non-assembly) where the selected items are bodies or curves, or in an Assembly where the selected items are components, de-selecting an item correctly updates the count as I remove and add items in real time. It's working exactly as one would expect it to.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
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: Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
What I am experiencing is that if you try to de-select the master part from the Model ref set, the count only accurately updates after exiting out of the Reference Set dialogue, then re-opening it.
RE: Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
That being said, I would suggest that you contact GTAC and have them open an IR and see what developments thinks about this behavior, but as I've alluded to, don't hold your breath
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
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: Reference Sets item count doesn't update correctly (NX6.0.1.5)
It seems that what is described is a case where somebody wishes to confuse what is displayed with the structure of the actual assembly tree. In that case I think it would be wrong and even misleading to display some reduced number of components on the basis that some are excluded from certain reference sets.
You can do things otherwise in parts lists but to argue that the ANT should be equivalent to a parts list while possibly quite useful is also possibly quite wrong and deceptive.
A sure way as John mentions to deliver yourself of that conundrum would be to not use assembly reference sets, then we might all sleep a bit better at night for not being confronted with trying to maintain other users occasionally quite Machiavellian schemes to create the assemblies that time forgot!
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum