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Copy and paste assembly components NX6

Copy and paste assembly components NX6

Copy and paste assembly components NX6

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I am on NX6.
I have a screw, nut, and washer, that are mated together (using assembly constraints).
I can copy and paste them into the same file, but the assembly constraints are lost in the copy.
Can I copy and paste these components and maintain the assembly constraints between them?
 

RE: Copy and paste assembly components NX6

The best that you could do would be to create an assembly of the screw, nut and washer, all constrained, and then copy and past the sub-assembly.  In that way the constraints INSIDE the assembly will be preserved.  Of course you would still have to constrain the individual copies of the sub-assembly.

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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: Copy and paste assembly components NX6

This is a feature that I miss when I have used Solid Works and moves back to NX.

Copy with mates is another one.

Drag and drop between assembly levels and maintain the constraint between the components would also speed things up when you have to rearrange the structure of your product. This could also be done in I-deas.

If i had this functions in NX i would be a lot faster working with assemblies.

NX5, NX6, NX7.5 and NX8
I-deas 12, NX I-deas6.1m1
Solid Works 2009

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