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Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

(OP)
Hello All.

We have the following issue..
We have a bunch of parts ( Items in Teamcenter ) coming from a Migration from Ideas to NX.
All the parts have been copied from the "master" item so all expressions are matching.
How can I create a partfamily out of these parts without the need to recreate the datasets from the "master"

All parts have been applied to multiple assemblies.Therefor I would not like to replace the model with newly created geometry.

Ronald van den Broek
Application Expert
Wartsila Switzerland Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B

RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

I think this is impossible. I have not found a solution.

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

Hello All,

I am also having the same problem. I have few parts created individualy in the teamcenter, but now I want to add those to a part family. Can anyone please tell how to add them.

RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

That question has already been asked and answered (sort of). To make it more definitive, there is NO known way to reverse process an existing set of parts files into a Part Family table, or at least nothing that would allow them to act like regular Part Family members.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
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RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

The only way is to import all the parts to same part, then create a feature groups relative to each one.
After you use the part Family to supress or enable the feature groups.

Gelson Z. Nicoletto
Eng. Supervisor
Mould Desing
Brazil

RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

Yes, but my caveat about them not acting like Family Table Parts, or at least not from same master template, is that if they are back-loaded as suggested, they will NOT share the same object ID's. Now it is true that you get around this by going back and adding common user-defined names to all of the edges and faces that might get referenced for Assembly Constraints or when creating Dimensions and Annotation but that can be a lot of work.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Adding existing Parts to existing Part Family

(OP)
We have investigated a workaround using re-usable components with spreadsheet integration.
Attached PDF will show how this is done in NX-Teamcenter environment.

The NX helpfiles are also explaining the procedure with NX native usage.

When applied with re-use library the selection for use in Assemblies is similar to that of using partfamilies...
Keep in mind that the creation of additional "members" is not according Part family behavior.

Ronald van den Broek
Application Specialist
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B

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