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Linked Exterior Error

Linked Exterior Error

Linked Exterior Error

(OP)
Greetings,

I am working with some complex assemblies. I am proficient in SW but not NX quite yet. I know in SW you could just save a complex assy as a part and thus simplify/speed up you assy pocess. I am trying to do that in NX 7.5 via linked exterior or simplify assembly funtions and i get the error:

Module Not Licensed
Unable to obtain an advanced assembly modeling.

I searched and searched for that this error exactly means so any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

Rob

RE: Linked Exterior Error

(OP)
Think I have it figured out... I'm assuming we do not have an 'Advanced Assemblies License'. So, is there any way to make using large assemblies in other assemblies easier?

Thank you in advance.

RE: Linked Exterior Error

When you say "large assembly" how large do you mean?

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RE: Linked Exterior Error

there are some different approaches in nx to handle large assemblys. Linked exterior is one of.
If you haven't got a large assembly license define your own reference set in every part with the same name and only reduced data of the part. In the load options you can define this reference set to load.
Nx will only load this portion of the part into the computers memory.

RE: Linked Exterior Error

(OP)
I appreciate the help. It is an HVAC assembly and I'm just designing a fixture. My main poblem was I was just contraining it wrong.

My new problem is when I create an assembly using my fixture on my C drive and add the HVAC from a server, I cannot load it once closing. Do these need to be on the same drive / in the same folder?

Thank you so much. This place is great!

RE: Linked Exterior Error

Last question, set your load options ( file - options - assembly load options) to either "as saved" or "from Search folders". If the search folders option is selected then specify the directories to be searched and the search order. i.e Top down order.

Regards,
Tomas

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