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Assembly design intent

Assembly design intent

Assembly design intent

(OP)
Hi,
I have two assemblies.
One contains the mechanical parts and the other only the screws that hold it together.
In the screw assembly, how can I place them in the holes of the mechanical parts if such parts are not in the screws assembly ?

My solution was to insert the mechanical parts in the assembly of screws, mate, and then suspend the mechanical parts.

I try to follow the structure of our ERP / MRP, so the NX BOM I transfer directly to our ERP / MRP.

The structure comes from the assembly line.

The problem to suppress the mechanical parts is the mate folder in the assembly navigator show errors.

Exist in NX a command that applied to part or assembly, become as referenced (without weight, invisible in the graphics area and reference 'model' and not counted in the BOM) ?

Thank you for any suggestions....

RE: Assembly design intent

A couple questions first:
Do you have WAVE?
What version of NX are you running?

RE: Assembly design intent

As they say in Vegas, "You're trying to make your point the hard way".

Why are you creating these sorts of assembly structures?  Why a separate assembly just for the fasteners?  It seems like you're creating a situation which is going to be very difficult to manage in the future.

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: Assembly design intent

(OP)
For jerry1423,
I don't have wave license
I'm using NX7.0.1.7

For John,
I know...but this structure came from our assembly line.
In the assembly line...arrive our parts that are completed with fasteners.
Our BOM is so structured very simplified for you :
Big assembly contain :
1) parts
2) fasteners
3) accessories
4) ....
5) .....

If in NX I structure like this, with a batch I insert the NX BOM to our ERP...without errors...
 

RE: Assembly design intent

my two cents worth:

1. What I would do is to put the fasteners in the main assembly, and mate them.
2. Create a new model part "FASTENERS" or whatever else you may call it. Nothing will be in there.
3. Then bring this new (empty) part into the main assembly.
4. You are now in the main assembly. Whatever fasteners are in it select in the ANT and drag and drop them into the new part.
You can select them as a group, or drag and drop them one at a time.
5. I have not tried this to see if the mates will remain, or fall off, but it's worth a try.

RE: Assembly design intent

(OP)
Hi jerry1423,
before to write here, I make your solution.
All mates are deleted, so I thinked to my solution.

RE: Assembly design intent

I was was in your place I would just leave the fasteners unmated. They will not move on their own, and will stay where they placed.

RE: Assembly design intent

If I absolutely HAD to do that then I'd add the assembly of the components to the assembly of fasteners and mate everything, then I'd suppress the assembly of the components so that the mating conditions also become suppressed. At least you can sort of maintain the relationships.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum

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