How to tell if parts have been refiled?
How to tell if parts have been refiled?
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Is there a way to tell if parts have been refiled during previous upgrades? Should there be a clue in the part history?
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How to tell if parts have been refiled?
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RE: How to tell if parts have been refiled?
When you run...
Information -> Part -> Part History...
...you will see:
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RE: How to tell if parts have been refiled?
RE: How to tell if parts have been refiled?
Open a NX command prompt ( then all env variables are in place)
Cd into the NX install directory , ( i.e C:\siemens\NX7.5\ugii\)
type "refile_part.exe" and press enter, then the options will be listed.
RE: How to tell if parts have been refiled?
The part is converted to the current release and saved.
Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM
RE: How to tell if parts have been refiled?
In this case, there are some additional options with respect to how the lightweight faceted representations are updated. If you simply open an existing legacy part and save it, if there already was a lightweight representation it will be recomputed using the tolerances referenced in the model. However, by pre-setting the Customer Default to what you would like the global lightweight tolerance to be and then running 'refile_part' using the correct option, this will force a complete recreation of the lightweight representations taking into account whatever lightweight options you has set in Customer Defaults. In fact, if you ARE indeed upgrading legacy parts from before NX 7.5 YOU MUST USE ONE OF THE LIGHTWEIGHT OPTIONS in order to get part files which can take full advantage of the new lightweight behavior was well as getting the best results when creating Drawings of Assemblies.
And while, as Toost suggested, you can get the listing of the options by just running 'refile_part' with no options set, it might be easier to just go to your NX Help files and search on "Running refile_part". Here you will find a complete list of all of the option codes as well as explanations as to what each one does. Based on what I stated above and what you will see if you do this documentation search, we recommend that use the -regen_lw_def_tol option, in combination with setting the proper options in Customer Defaults, to get the best results.
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.