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NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

(OP)
Hi there
Thought I might bother you all with some more reference-set whining.

I'm making drawings of a dam, and this dam contains certain pipes and gates surrounded by concrete. Now, for the recess-plan-drawings of this dam, I need to show the dam as it looks like when it's under construction, since the bars holding pipes and gates in place in the concrete won't be visible in the final product. To make them visible, I can cut away the concrete around these pipes and their bars in MODELING to show how they are placed in the first stages of concreting (before the dam is finished). This is fine and dandy and looks badass in the drawing.

Moving on, I'm making drawings of the assembly of the entire dam. Here, the main components (gates, pipes, ladders etc) themselves are in focus, and the dam needs to look like it does when it's completed.
In SolidWorks (which I'm the most used to), I could easily make sure that the feature that cut away concrete for the recess-plan-drawing would be supressed in that drawing, and I did this with "configurations".
In NX6, however, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make/control reference sets with "finished dam" and "partially-finished-dam-for-easier-placement-of-bars".

tl;dr
All I want to do is to have the exact same concrete-part in both the recess-plan-drawing and the arrangement-drawing but to have a specific feature or features of the concrete-part supressed in the recess-plan one. I don't know if reference sets can do that for me.
I think what I want is an "arrangement" but in a single part, and that instead of it controlling the presense of components, controlling whether features are there or not.
I hope I made myself clear.

Best regards

Nougatti

Tom you can't knit at these speeds! Nobody can! DON'T BE A GODDAMNED HERO TOM!

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

If you were to model each of the differnt types of pipe etc as components, the you can hide component/s within a view so that it/they don't show.

If you are wanting to model the whole thing in one go, then you can put each type of part on to different layers, then in drafting you can select format --> Layer visible in view and select which layers you want to see and which you don't.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Si

Best regards

Simon NX7.5.4.4 MP8 - TC 8 www.jcb.com

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

(OP)
Well, yes. I do model each component as a separate component. I'm just wondering if there is a way to control the state of individual features within a component with reference sets or something similar. I'd like the concrete to look "unfinished" with some of the features supressed in one of my drawings (not just a specific view). In other drawings (separate .prt-files), I want the concrete to look "finished" with all features unsupressed.

-Nougatti

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Tom you can't knit at these speeds! Nobody can! DON'T BE A GODDAMNED HERO TOM!

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

I think that WAVE linking at time stamo would work here, however your model would need to constructed in similay way to that it would be done in real life as getting the features in order is critical to this working. You could have one model that caould be used in many different drawing and by choosing different features for the time stamp, it would show your concrete for example in various states of completeness.

Cheers

Si.

Best regards

Simon NX7.5.4.4 MP8 - TC 8 www.jcb.com

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

Did you mention what version of NX is being used for this dam project ?

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

He mentioned NX6 but I somehow doubt that's why you asked.

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

I see now where he specified, it took a bit to find it. But I could not pass on the oppurtunity to say what I said.

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

You mean right at the start of the thread title?

RE: NX6: Reference Sets - Got myself some SolidWorks-baggage and it won't let go :(

(OP)
I see we are making progress here:) Yes, I am running NX6, version 6.0.5.3 to be exact. How can one click the link to this thread without reading the thread title first?

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Tom you can't knit at these speeds! Nobody can! DON'T BE A GODDAMNED HERO TOM!

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