conditional material assignment
conditional material assignment
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Dealing with material assignments for the first time, is it possible to change material assigned to a body based on and expression or attribute? Probably just not looking in the right place in the docs but I'm not coming up with anything. We have many components who's design is the same but materials vary depending on the application, and this is something that automation would help with in avoiding incorrect material assignment.....if possible. Any help would be appreciated.





RE: conditional material assignment
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: conditional material assignment
We are on 8.5 right now, has this changed in 9.0?
RE: conditional material assignment
Tools -> Material -> Assign Materials...
...functionality. However, it's linking it to an expression or attribute, with the exception of the Part Family scheme, that would require some sort of user-developed application.
Note that while you can set a model's density using GRIP, if you wanted this to be fully automatic, you'd need to do something like launching a program every time you saved a part to update the density based on a change made to an expression/attribute during the current modeling session.
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: conditional material assignment
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: conditional material assignment
OOTB i am not sure if this is feasible but it certainly is achievable using Knowledge fusion. I am furnishing one movie herewith. You will notice that depending on the expression value (test=1/2/3) the material will change.
I checked it in NX8 only.
Best Regards
Kapil