Assembly display issues of Light Weight Reps Linked Bodies
Assembly display issues of Light Weight Reps Linked Bodies
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1.
We have an assembly that contains many parts and sub assemblies. I have been encouraging our users to use Lightweight Reps when working with large assemblies, however one of the sites reported that when they open the assembly with light weight reps on, it does not display all the parts. However when we change a component that is not displaying to exact, it suddenly appears and then disapears when it is changed back to lightweight. I have looked at a number of offending components and all have perfectly good JT's attached to the relevant revisions so I know that isn't the problem, is there a setting somwhere?
2.
In the same assembly, there are some componets that contain linked bodies if we make that part the work part and look in the PNT, the 4 linked bodies are there, however you cannot see them on the screen until you suppress and then un supress them which has to be done every time the assembly is loaded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We have an assembly that contains many parts and sub assemblies. I have been encouraging our users to use Lightweight Reps when working with large assemblies, however one of the sites reported that when they open the assembly with light weight reps on, it does not display all the parts. However when we change a component that is not displaying to exact, it suddenly appears and then disapears when it is changed back to lightweight. I have looked at a number of offending components and all have perfectly good JT's attached to the relevant revisions so I know that isn't the problem, is there a setting somwhere?
2.
In the same assembly, there are some componets that contain linked bodies if we make that part the work part and look in the PNT, the 4 linked bodies are there, however you cannot see them on the screen until you suppress and then un supress them which has to be done every time the assembly is loaded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Simon NX7.5.3 - TC 8 www.jcb.com





RE: Assembly display issues of Light Weight Reps Linked Bodies
RE: Assembly display issues of Light Weight Reps Linked Bodies
Best regards
Simon NX7.5.3 - TC 8 www.jcb.com
RE: Assembly display issues of Light Weight Reps Linked Bodies
Now as for your not running refile, in the case of moving legacy data into NX 7.5, due in many respects to the changes made in lightweight representations, it's highly recommended that you perform a full refile on ALL of your parts including any reuse library parts or family table members which might be included in any of your assemblies. If you don't, besides the impact on file opening times (as all of the schema updating is being done on-the-fly every time), there are some special issues with respect to how lightweight representations are displayed, particularly when it comes to creating drawings of assemblies which include lightweight representations (note that this has nothing to do with using facets while in a Drawing but rather how the lightweight representations are interpreted as exact representations in the Drawing views so that things like Hidden Line Removal gives the results that you expect). If you look at the refile options for NX 7.5 you will see a couple of additional ones related to lightweight issues and we recommend that you set at least one of them during refile. These update issues CANNOT be handled during an on-the-fly update alone. It requires that the part file actually be SAVED before the lightweight representation can be fully usable everywhere they're relevant during a session of NX, hence the recommendation to do a full refile.
Anyway, I hope this explains why it would be in your best interests to perform a full refile, even if this has not been a normal part of your past version-up procedures.
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