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REUSE LIBRARY

REUSE LIBRARY

REUSE LIBRARY

(OP)
Where are the folders and files located that populate the Reuse Library? Currently there are folders that I can see but no part files within those folders.

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

Are you working in Teamcenter or NAtive?
You set the folders under File-Utilities-Customer Defaults - Gateway - Reuseable Library

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

(OP)
We are using SAP PLM.

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

Have you actually downloaded the Reuse libraries from the GTAC download area?

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: REUSE LIBRARY

The problem with downloading the Reuse Libraries is that what do you do with all the exsiting hardware that you have. Now you have 2 sets of Hardware.

We actually converted all of our old hardware that we download 5 years ago into Reuse. It isn't htat hard if anyone wants to know how.

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

If you got those 5 year old hardware libraries from us (as in Siemens) then they were probably my old 'fastener library' which I used to give away prior to the development of our 'reuse' strategy.

I know this won't really help you any since the file names have all been changed, but I 'donated' my entire fastener library to the reuse team and they used most of my work as the foundation for the current libraries when and where there was a match.  If nothing else, my files acted as a prototype for what we have now with many of the original ideas preserved in the new content.  

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: REUSE LIBRARY

They work great John but I did see the sense of importing a whole new set of fasteners and having 2 set of fasteners in our system. I worked with Stewart Bresler and we converted all of our exsisting fasteners to Reuse.

The Library is great for new users of NX and need fastner but for all the long time exsisting customer that had fasteners from years ago it doesn't help down loading the new ones.

Thanks for the original fasteners.

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

I believe there are some enhancements to the new fasteners that might make them worth switching to.  The detailed threads are controlled by an expression instead of a seperate reference set for a solid body.  The new fasteners should take up less memory.  I have a question about how the NX integration to SAP PLM is working out for you.  Does SAP PLM have a library that you can manage the unique fastener parts that you instantiate from Reuse Library?  Or are you managing your fastener library entirely on a native network folder?

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

Actually controlling the detailed threads using an Expression was one of the things that the reuse group learned from MY original fastener library as that's the way I had always done it.  The only thing which was obsoleted was the fact that I supplied an alternative simplified body (with its own Reference Set) whereas now since NX 5.0 with the level-of-details in the JT representations there is little need something like that. And now with the advent of NX 7.5 and the use of 'full-time' lightweight representations, we no longer even need a separate lightweight (faceted) Reference Set.

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: REUSE LIBRARY

We are using Teamcenter and We have everything in teamcenter fother the fastener library.

RE: REUSE LIBRARY

Original post user indicated they are using SAP PLM.

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