×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Share expressions between parts ??

Share expressions between parts ??

Share expressions between parts ??

(OP)
Hi

What is the best way to share variables or expressions between parts in an assembly? (besides wave linking)
Maybe some kind of global variables?
I have also thought of promoting a sketch with all the expressions.


regards

RE: Share expressions between parts ??

Interpart Expressions ?

NX 6.0.5.3 (NX 8 Testing)
Windows 7 64

RE: Share expressions between parts ??

(OP)
But interpart expressions have two drawbacks:
They cannot be modified or be viewed directly from the assembly, I need to change the working part every time (to the part that contain the expressions)
I think is less comfortable to write component1::x1 instead of just x1 (or to browse for it).

RE: Share expressions between parts ??

You could create the expressions in the Assembly file and link the components to those expressions. Then they will be accessible from the assembly.

RE: Share expressions between parts ??

(OP)
Hello

If we are working in a part we cannot directly list that assembly expressions.

We first need to set the assembly as the working part or use interpart expressions.

RE: Share expressions between parts ??

You could always have different part files point to a common spreadsheet where you could make your expressions changes in and then when you open any of the individual part files, simply force an update and you're good to go.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources