NX4 Text Into Spread Sheet?
NX4 Text Into Spread Sheet?
(OP)
Yes, we are still using NX4, but my hands are tied by corporate policy so please do not look down upon me.
My question is this, our engineering staff has tasked me with finding out if I can take text from our unparametric parts list (I.E.: Part No., Description, Vendor, and Vendor Part No.) and some how get it into spread sheet form. I realize that NX has the capability to automatically populate the parts list, but again my department does not want to use it. So I manually input all text into the drawing parts list.
Any help on this issue would help and thanks in advance.
My question is this, our engineering staff has tasked me with finding out if I can take text from our unparametric parts list (I.E.: Part No., Description, Vendor, and Vendor Part No.) and some how get it into spread sheet form. I realize that NX has the capability to automatically populate the parts list, but again my department does not want to use it. So I manually input all text into the drawing parts list.
Any help on this issue would help and thanks in advance.





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Thanks for your help though.
I was just checking to see if anyone had any miraculous suggestions...
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Tools -> Spreadsheet...
...and when Excel is launched note the additional menu item on the main menu bar titled 'Add-Ins'. Select the 'cell' where you would like to start the list of Attributes and then expand the 'Add-Ins' menu list and select 'Extract Attr'. This will cause all of the attributes assigned to all of the components to be loaded into the cells of the spreadsheet. You can now edit and/or clean up the entries and when you're happy with the results, you can go to the normal Excel menus and do a Save-As and save the extracted information to an external spreadsheet.
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Thanks again everyone for trying to help me on this.