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Show part's CSYS in assembly

Show part's CSYS in assembly

Show part's CSYS in assembly

(OP)
Hello,

I assembled two parts and I would like to constrain them using their CSYSs. is that possible?

I'm using NX7.5

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

Hi Weinstein.

in your assembly need to set the reference set of your components to entire part. That will show your Csys for the component.

Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.2 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

What nutace mentioned will work,
but what you can do is, in the assembly change the reference set of the components to entire part
then when you are done constraining change it back to model (or what ref set you are using)

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

We have a reference set for the solid part and Coordinate system in our default template. This way you can toggle to this reference and not get all of the other stuff with the models. We like to use reference geometry to constrain to if possible.

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

(OP)
thank you very much for your answers, I'll try it first thing tomorrow!

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

(OP)
Hello nutace, Jerry and sdeters,

your methode does work but I still can't select any element of the datum CSYS to costain the other parts to it.

is it allowed to constrain to datum CSYS in NX7.5?

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

Hi...

Should be no problem to constrain to Csys.

You should check a few settings:
Are the layers where your Csys is located selectable?
Did you check if you don't have any type selection filters active?
Is your selection scope set to entire assembly?

Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.2 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

RE: Show part's CSYS in assembly

(OP)
Hi Nutace,

thank you very much it does work now!!

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