×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

(OP)
Hi guys,

I am using NX 10 and I need to create a top down assembly.
I have created skeleton in my assembly file. (This contains hundreds of connected curves )
What I want is, when I select one curve, I should be able to add parts (beams/extrusions) of the same length as of selected curve.
Each curve is of different length.
Can this be done using Macro/Journal available under tools option.

Thanks,
Vishal

RE: NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

Have you looked at the NX Routing Mechanical application?

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: NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

(OP)
Hi John,
I have not looked into NX Routing Mechanical application.
I will have a look and if that do not work, I will come back for alternate solution.

Thanks,
Vishal

RE: NX 10 Macro/Journal to create assembly parts

(OP)
Hi John,

I tried Mechanical Routing, seems pretty good. But I am facing following problems,
1. Actually I want to do a Top Down design of structural building. This consist of plates and columns at diff. angle and diff. location.

2. In Mech_Routing when I place parts, it creates stock not the assembled part. (edited - well somehow looking at standard library components, I think I can bring my parts as fittings rather than stock. But still I will have to figure out.)

3. The placed stock is aligned/placed according to the path. But I want it to constraint with surrounding plates.

I am also not sure if Macros can do this.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Vishal

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources