"Save as" question
"Save as" question
(OP)
NX 7.5.5.4
TC 2007
Hello,
Just wondering to ease some things:
I'm creating some concepts where i have several parts, at the beginning they were the same. Through time they got minor changer to eachother, in other words: they became different parts.
My question: is there a way, when i make a save as of a part in an pretty big assembly, to keep the original part instead of all parts being replaced by the new one?
example:
4 same parts in assembly, one changes. When i make a save as, all parts are replaced by new part.
4 parts are also used in other concept assemblies and i want it to keep it the same.
The path i follow at this moment:
save assembly.
edit part
"save as" on part
go back to assembly
replace part with the original one (3x) (My mind goes like this: 3x ? i just want to change 1 part!)
save assembly.
What i miss here is the command : save copy as. <- this is the action i want to do. To get there i have to do a lot more....
That would result in:
Nothing being replaced in assemblies. So i have to replace only one part. The other parts stay the same and the structure remains unchanged. Less chance to create mistakes by forgetting to replace one part with the original one.
The unchanged parts are the same as previous concepts.
I don't know if this function is available in NX8 or later?
TC 2007
Hello,
Just wondering to ease some things:
I'm creating some concepts where i have several parts, at the beginning they were the same. Through time they got minor changer to eachother, in other words: they became different parts.
My question: is there a way, when i make a save as of a part in an pretty big assembly, to keep the original part instead of all parts being replaced by the new one?
example:
4 same parts in assembly, one changes. When i make a save as, all parts are replaced by new part.
4 parts are also used in other concept assemblies and i want it to keep it the same.
The path i follow at this moment:
save assembly.
edit part
"save as" on part
go back to assembly
replace part with the original one (3x) (My mind goes like this: 3x ? i just want to change 1 part!)
save assembly.
What i miss here is the command : save copy as. <- this is the action i want to do. To get there i have to do a lot more....
That would result in:
Nothing being replaced in assemblies. So i have to replace only one part. The other parts stay the same and the structure remains unchanged. Less chance to create mistakes by forgetting to replace one part with the original one.
The unchanged parts are the same as previous concepts.
I don't know if this function is available in NX8 or later?





RE: "Save as" question
Not sure if cloning can help in this case.Go for save as for all the changed compoennts and then use clone to replace all those from a single window.
I am attaching a image.
Best REgards
Kapil
RE: "Save as" question
This function is available in NX8. The acces is Assemnlies Component Make Unike
Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.com
RE: "Save as" question
If you only need to replace the new component in one location of your assembly, I would use a different work flow.
Close all assemblies and open only the part you need to change.
Do your Save As and make any changes.
Open your assembly that uses the changed part and replace the original component with your new component.
This should only replace the one instance of the component in your assembly, leaving the other 3 alone.
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Ben Loosli
RE: "Save as" question
RE: "Save as" question
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: "Save as" question
Does anyone know why NX replaces a component in all open assemblies when you do a save-as on the component?
Personally, I'd much prefer if it only replaced the component inside the work assembly.
And didn't do any replacing at all if the component was made work part.
I'd be interested to know anyone elses thoughts on this.
Regards, Carl
www.jcb.com
NX 7.5 with TC 8.3
RE: "Save as" question
Personally, I'd much prefer if it only replaced the component inside the work assembly.
And didn't do any replacing at all if the component was made
workdisplayed part.www.jcb.com
NX 7.5 with TC 8.3
RE: "Save as" question
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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RE: "Save as" question
Yes, I learned that lesson the hard way once, and had to go through all my schemes replacing components back with the original part (except in the one assembly I'd intended to change). The same thing happened last week to one of our users, and I wondered why NX behaves like this.
When working with many large assemblies open in a session, it's not practical to close all assemblies that you don't want a part to change in, either before the save-as (large time penalty) or after the save-as (likelihood of losing other changes made).
As a workaround, I began carrying out my "save-as" operations in Teamcenter, and then using replace component. This is the only way I found to change a part number in only the assemblies (and instances) that I wanted.
Perhaps in a future version it might be possible to include an option during "save-as" for which instances should be replaced.
Something like - this instance only / all in displayed assembly / all in loaded assemblies.
Regards,
Carl
www.jcb.com
NX 7.5 with TC 8.3
RE: "Save as" question
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.
RE: "Save as" question
Thanks very much for the info.
Carl
www.jcb.com
NX 7.5 with TC 8.3