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Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

(OP)
If you could start over... what would you do / not do?

We are starting a new year and a new direction.

Our company is starting from the ground up using NX7.5 and TeamCenter 8 (as a CAD vault only at this point).
 
Long story short:

Looking for step by step tutorials, videos, advice:
•    Creating Title Blocks from scratch
•    How to use the attribute list and automatically update drawings
•    Effectively use seed files and defaults
•    Automatically populate BOM found on the drawings (in a specific order)
•    Importing several NX assemblies into TeamCenter from Native NX using a batch process
•    Effectively managing Datasets
•    Adding new materials to the Material Library and store this Data within TeamCenter
•    Can attributes or expression be pulled out of the Material Library data to auto populate fields in the BOM?  (Engineering Specs, Material name, etc)
•    Effective use of part linking & WAVE within TeamCenter
•    Storing Symbols within TeamCenter instead of on a local drive


Long story condensed:

We would love to hear suggestion, tips, pointers, warnings, and advice.  Tutorial and step-by-step instructions, whether uploaded as Word files or PDF's, illustrated using a video, or written out on this forum would be great !  We all have taken several courses but real world knowledge cannot be beat.   We  also all have subscriptions to the Learning Advantage - Gold Membership so if you know of a particular course to direct us to we're willing to take that advice as well.  

Currently we have a handful of part files made using the Native version of NX.  Now that the users are comfortable using NX, we are designing new title blocks for our drafting department and we are starting to move all this stuff into TeamCenter.  

I know this all sounds like, "Whoa... those guys are in trouble!"  That's how some feel but the reason for the post is we are simply wanting to get it right, the first time through and looking for anything and everything to make this venture as successful and yes and easy as possible.  

For some of us, this is a dream come true, to fix what has been wrong for years.  For others it's living a nightmare.  

Don't feel like you have to answer every point to post.  If one gets your attention... we're all ears!

Thanks guys!!!
 

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

We have done the same thing.  Look on GTAc bullentin board for customizing 7.5.  This has a lot of good starting points and  and custom options.

http://bbs.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42187&highlight=nx+7.5+custom  You will need a webkey account.

Also Look at putting your PAX files into Teamcenter for you part templates.  This works very nice. Put the Aobve link has the PAX files on a network drive.  We use the pax files in teamcenter and it works well.  NX will look in teamcenter for the PAX file before it will go to your network to look for them.

These will be some good places to start.  

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

follow thread for many tutorials

http://nxtutorials.com/

 

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

(OP)
Thanks man!  That thread is good too!  

I'll try no too bother you too much...

Do I just upload the pax file to TeamCenter and it knows what to do from that point?  What if we have more than one group or types of users that need different pax files?

Thanks again!

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

That is what is great about loading pax files into teamcenter.  you can have different groups point at different revision of PAX files that you need.  I am not that strong at this because I am just a user Please follow the below link.  You need to be a member of PLMworld to view this.

http://www.plmworld.org/p/do/sd/topic=189&sid=712

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

(OP)
Nice!  I'm finding a lot of valuable info there!

Thanks man!

RE: Starting from scratch! - NX & TeamCenter -- Advice, Tutorials, etc

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