PMI model data help.
PMI model data help.
(OP)
Anyone using PMI for GD&T features in NX? We have a customer that's asking if we can work with PMI data exclusively. I'm waiting for an answer from the engineer there about what's required here. I have a file that clearly shows the PMI features on the tree but I can't display the GD&T values on the model. We have the plain-jane NX6 Adavanced Manufacturing. Do I need an additional plugin?
Back in my Catia days, you'd just turn on the attributes of the tree and voila! Not so fast here.
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Bill
Back in my Catia days, you'd just turn on the attributes of the tree and voila! Not so fast here.
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Bill





RE: PMI model data help.
"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - Robert Hunter
RE: PMI model data help.
Aha! I found they created some views pmi_top pmi_side, etc...
I then "Replaced" the view to those and they show up. What threw me was under "Preferences/PMI" I checked "Display in all views" which didn't show them still. But yes, I needed to Replace the view with theirs.
Thanks!
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Bill
RE: PMI model data help.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
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Cypress, CA
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: PMI model data help.
Yes, it now makes sense that the preference check for all views should be for creating new objects.
Personally as an ME/NC programmer, I love having the GD&T embedded in the part model. The down side (if there is one) is getting all that data into man-readable paper for the different processes along the shop floor and outside vendors. Unfortunately that will fall squarely on my shoulders...
It does make a good argument to get folks using the NX viewer but that will take a bit of training (and some licenses) which is hard to do at a small shop.
The PMI is cool stuff though. It brings us a bit closer to the "paperless manufacturing" I was promised back in 1980! <g>
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Bill