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GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

(OP)
Hello
I need to group a bunch of drawings into one large drawing per a customer's request.
The individual drawings will have three or four views in them with dimensions & notes. They will also have borders & title blocks with most of the info coming from each file's property-attributes.
I need for all this to to show in the large drawing for each individual drawing.
Does anyone know how I can do this in NX6?

Thanks,
James

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

Try exporting as either CGM or PDF and importing them back into the comglomerate drawing?

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

You can try export a jpeg from all the drawings (File - Export - Jpeg...) and then start with a new file, goto drafting and make an A0 for example then insert them (the jpegs) as image (Insert - Image...) in the overview drawing.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX4+TC9 /NX7.5.2 + TC8.3

 

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

An associative solution?  I'd be interested to learn of that myself.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - Robert Hunter
 

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

(OP)
I was hoping to keep it all associative & in UG.
I know there'll be updates to the design in the near future once the tool tweaked in for production. This way all the drawings will update.

James

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

Just curious, - does any drafting standard ( Asme, Iso etc) contain this procedure ?
I would otherwise assume that it would be difficult to do associative, the view dependent objects such as the drawing borders are difficult to show in other parts.
One strange but associative way of doing it would be thru the use of "Patterns".
 Save all the drawing-files having the save option - Pattern data only =on, retrieve the pattern ( Format - pattern - retrieve pattern etc) place on the collector drawing.
Make sure that the system variable UGII_PATDIR ( from the ugii_env.dat) is set to the directory where the drawing files reside. - Else the patterns will not display when opened "tomorrow".
 ( the pattern will only display a small cross-symbol in the lower left corner.)

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

(OP)
Thanks Toost for the input.
I'm off that job for a short time. When I get back on it I'll look into that. The pattern formats is something I haven't used at all. I'd call that thinking out of the box :)

James

RE: GROUP DRAWINGS IN ONE FILE ?

In the next version of NX you will be able to 'Copy & Paste' an entire drawing (and if this is a Master Model Drawing it will include the master part file) from one Drawing file to another.  I just tested this where I created a new drawing file and then 'Copied & Pasted' two drawings from two other parts into the original Drawing file ending up with 3 Drawing sheets, each representing a separate Drawing and able to be displayed and plotted as if it were it's own stand-alone Drawing file.

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