Reference only part
Reference only part
(OP)
Dear all,
I have run into a little problem that is driving me nuts. I created an assembly and added some reference only parts to the drawings. i.e. they only show up in the drafting environment not in modeling. The 'reference only parts' icons show up in the assembly navigator as the yellow cube (part) with a drawing boarder in the background. I took this assembly and added it to another assembly and these part became regular parts somewhere in the process. Can I toggle parts to become 'reference only'. I.e. so that the part goes back to only being visible in the drafting environment and the icon changes back to the part with a white drawing boarder behind it?
Many thanks
I have run into a little problem that is driving me nuts. I created an assembly and added some reference only parts to the drawings. i.e. they only show up in the drafting environment not in modeling. The 'reference only parts' icons show up in the assembly navigator as the yellow cube (part) with a drawing boarder in the background. I took this assembly and added it to another assembly and these part became regular parts somewhere in the process. Can I toggle parts to become 'reference only'. I.e. so that the part goes back to only being visible in the drafting environment and the icon changes back to the part with a white drawing boarder behind it?
Many thanks





RE: Reference only part
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RE: Reference only part
NX6
RE: Reference only part
If you need to add this first assembly (not the Drawing Part file, but the file which contains the original assembly BEFORE you created your first drawing) as a sub-assembly in some other assembly, when you create your drawing of THAT higher-level assembly, if it's still important for you to see these same reference-only components from the first drawing, and for them to remain as reference-only components, in the second drawing, then you will need to re-add them as explicit reference-only components TO the top level Drawing. Perhaps is we had called them 'view-dependent' components, it might have been clearer that they only behave as expected when SEEN in their 'view', i.e. the original drawing.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Reference only part
Thanks again! Your help is greatly appreciated!
Materials Engineer
Rolls-Royce Corp.
UGS - NX6
RE: Reference only part
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.