WAVE geometry to a part family template
WAVE geometry to a part family template
(OP)
In NX 6 I have an assembly that has a component which is a member of a part family, and therefore this component is read only. What I need to do however is WAVE some of the geometry from other parts in the assembly into the part family template to drive some feature locations in the part family. What I have tried initially is replacing the read only component in the assembly with its parent template part, then Waving the geometry, saving the template, and then replacing the component back to the original read only family member. Next I have to go into the template part and fix the broken wave link to reference the geometry that I need which is now in a non displayed part. This seems to work OK as long as you are careful about your part origins and how they relate to the assembly. Is anybody aware of a cleaner (easier and more robust) way to accomplish this task?





RE: WAVE geometry to a part family template
There are probably a number of ways to set up a possible solution, but I'm only really interested in typing the answer once for the most appropriate one. Thus far I've never heard of anyone needing to do such a thing.
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Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: WAVE geometry to a part family template
RE: WAVE geometry to a part family template
If on the other hand the geometry of the connectors moves relative to the backplane then you probably want to either link or promote some of those part family members to have different openings for the connectors shown in a variety of configurations too numerous to manage any other way.
Either way I'd avoid live linked geometry in part families for reason of convenience since as you mentioned it is created as read only. When and if you have updates to perform I'd go in and recreate all the part family members at once as your means to publishing the updates.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum