layers reuse library items using grip/journal
layers reuse library items using grip/journal
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Could we use a grip or journal program to automatically adjust the master files of family parts (nuts and bolts) in the reuse library to adjust to curves/sketches to layer 101 and csys to layer 200? This is our company standard and currently the sketches are on layer 22 and csys are on layer 62. I'd do this manually but there are about 100,000 parts to be corrected. How would you batch run this?
We are running NX6.0 some of us are 32 bit on windows xp and some of us are on 64 bit windows 7 pcs.
We are running NX6.0 some of us are 32 bit on windows xp and some of us are on 64 bit windows 7 pcs.





RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
Reference sets are a great help if you learn how to use them. They are not difficult. The best practice recommendation is to only use them in part files to filter geometry, do not use them in assembly files to filter components (use arrangements for that instead).
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
Even better - in the assembly file, simply change the component's reference set from "entire part" to "model" and you are done.
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
Here's another, longer thread with the same basic info but contains some more explanation and questions from other users: thread561-282506: Reference sets in NX6
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
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RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
NX 6.0.5.3 in Windows 7
Mechanical designer
RE: layers reuse library items using grip/journal
If your sister company (in Europe) has been using UG/NX for 10 years or so then it's quite possible that they were using it BEFORE we had implemented Arrangements, which BTW were modeled after 'Configurations' in I-deas and were implemented as part of the effort to provide equivalent functionality in NX both in terms of providing common functions as well as supporting the conversion of, in this case, I-deas assemblies which had utilized 'Configurations'. Prior to Arrangements, which were first introduced with NX 2.0 (2003) but not fully implemented until NX 3.0 (2004), many people attempted to use Reference Sets to control the content and positioning of components in sub-assemblies, but this was never what Reference Sets were intended for, so when the opportunity came along to implement Arrangements we didn't hesitate. Note that we had a similar solution under consideration at the time of the SDRC acquisition, but once we looked at Configurations in I-deas we decided to scrape our yet-to-be-developed approach and instead concentrated on implementing a 'Configuration' equivalent in NX and thus was born 'Arrangements' (the name change was due to TeamCenter having already coopted the term 'Configurations' for something else, so as to avoid confusion...).
Anyway, Arrangements are a key capabilities when it comes to defining alternative positioning and content of sub-assemblies which are used in multiple higher level assemblies.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
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