Display multiple parts at once?
Display multiple parts at once?
(OP)
Hi,
is it possible in NX7 to display more than one file at once in the same nx session?
I expected that opening two files and selecting tile horizontally/vertically from the window menu would show both parts in separate windows inside the main nx window but it does not.
Am I missing something or is this the way it is intended? Are multiple windows inside the mdi window really only supported for displaying different views of ONE part at once?
Thanks
Nebur
is it possible in NX7 to display more than one file at once in the same nx session?
I expected that opening two files and selecting tile horizontally/vertically from the window menu would show both parts in separate windows inside the main nx window but it does not.
Am I missing something or is this the way it is intended? Are multiple windows inside the mdi window really only supported for displaying different views of ONE part at once?
Thanks
Nebur





RE: Display multiple parts at once?
Of course, there is nothing stopping you from running two different sessions of NX on the same workstation.
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RE: Display multiple parts at once?
thanks for the explanations!
Cheers,
Nebur
RE: Display multiple parts at once?
The exception may be if you're running under teamcenter where I have never seen it done.
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RE: Display multiple parts at once?
Perhaps just standard entries to be OS compliant??
RE: Display multiple parts at once?
If you've configured NX to start in the so-called 'managed-mode', where NX automatically connects to TeamCenter when you ask to open a file or create a new one, then there should be no problem at all. If however you're working from within TeamCenter itself and launch NX by 'opening' a part file associated with a TeamCenter record master, if you tried to do that with a second file, it would just assume that you were opening a second part in the NX session that was already running (although there are ways to change that, this would be the default behavior). And if you tried to start two separate TeamCenter sessions on the same workstations, this could be even more difficult to get the desired behavior.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: Display multiple parts at once?
Beware of opening two ug sessions. This is the observation that we did in our department:
There are some 5-6 groups in our dept. We have distributed the license bundles (P1, ADVDES, DESIGNER etc) for each group (RESERVEed or EXCLUDEd in .opt file).
Suppose Group1 has 5 P1 license bundles RESERVED.
If 3 members (of Group1) open Single ug session each, and 4th member opens TWO ug sessions, It happened sometimes (not always) that the 5th member will not get the license.
Once the 4th member closes one ug sesssion, the 5th member got license.
I mean to say, the second ug session sometimes pulls the license which is free (if the license is free).
John can you throw some light on this.
RE: Display multiple parts at once?
So getting back to what happens with floating licenses, if I opened 2 sessions and in one I created a model while in the other I create a drawing, it have checked-out ONE Gateway as well as ONE Modeling and ONE Drafting license. But if I opened 2 sessions and was doing modeling in both I would have checked-out ONE Gateway and ONE Modeling license. That's how it works with floating licenses, but a bundle is a bundle is a bundle.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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.