Assembly from Excel
Assembly from Excel
(OP)
Im trying to find out if it is possible to make an assembly based on information found in a excelfile. For example, i want to add a component multiple times with same constraints by specifying in excelfile how many instances i need.
Is this possible?
NX 6
// JJL
Is this possible?
NX 6
// JJL





RE: Assembly from Excel
That being said, if this is really the sort of workflow you intend to follow, may I suggest that you look seriously into Teamcenter and some of the tools which are available there which promotes this idea of a product structure definition.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Assembly from Excel
// JJL
RE: Assembly from Excel
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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 from Excel
While this is taken care of by our IT-Techs i wonder if i can find more information online?
// JJL
RE: Assembly from Excel
Marc
NX Software Developer
RE: Assembly from Excel
RE: Assembly from Excel
If some of the Component's positions controlled by the spreadsheet and others are dependent on other Components what might be happening is that some of the positions my be getting resolved out-of-order. What I mean is that lets say 'A' is positioned relative to 'B' and 'B' is positioned using the spreadsheet. When you do the update 'A' my get updated first but then 'B' is updated. It looks like 'A' is not correct until you update the second time as 'A' will now move to where 'B' is after the spreadsheet 'update'. Now if this assembly has several Components positioned (constrained) relative to several components, some position using the spreadsheet data and others not, it could be quite possible that multiple updates may be needed since these are not iterative. That is that do NOT continue to update, based on a single command, until ALL possible relationships have been resolved.
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 from Excel
RE: Assembly from Excel
RE: Assembly from Excel
Assemblies components knowledge there is read from an external text file as well as how they should constraint to each others to construct the needed structural steel connection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r57u8hRYeU
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