Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
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In NX 7.5 Native or in conjunction with Teamcenter, I can't edit my part family. The Family part is created, spreadsheet data set, parts created, and family saved - All OK although extremely slow at creating parts and saving even the smallest of families. The problem is that I cannot edit the same part family to enter additional data. The spreadsheet opens and tells me that it is "initializing the part family" - but never fully opens so that I can edit the file. I've attached a very simple Block part with 5 family members in the spreadsheet. Is this a known bug or something wrong with my settings. Anyone else having this problem. John B., if you're out there, please help. Our Teamcenter is going live in a few weeks and I need this fixed ASAP. -Thanks





RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
What OS and is it 32 or 64 bit?
If 64 bit OS, are you running 64 bit NX?
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
From what I can see, there was nothing amiss. Your best bet is to contact GTAC and have them look at your files as there is nothing that I can see from here.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
Windows XP 32bit
NX 7.5.0.32
Excel 2000
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
The sample block with 5 family members takes about 8 minutes to create the 5 parts and about the same amount of time to save the part family. Does anyone else see this type of poor performance? My real part families have 100's of parts and I'm not looking forward to creating them until I get these issues resolved.
Thanks again!
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
Thanks!
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
Don - Fermilab
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
As for the "Failed to set Excel running" error, we just encountered that today. A co-worker killed Excel yesterday during a part family update as it was taking over 20 minutes. Now her machine won't launch Excel when editing a part family. She gets the "Failed to set Excel running" error.
UPDATE - We just tried a Part Cleanup with all options checked and now it opens Excel properly. Go figure.
Win Windows 7-64 / NX7.5.4.4 MP4 / 24GB RAM / Quadro FX3800 / Algor 23.1 / ANSYS 14.0
RE: Editing Part Family in NX 7.5 - Won't Initialize Family
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.