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Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

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Hello All,

Is there any command or Option for Alternate Position View/Limit Distance Mate kind of things in NX, like the way we have in Solidworks? I have attached jpeg for similar kind of example.

Chetak
Engineering Design / Knowledge Based Engineering
NX8.5, TC8.5.3.3, Win 7 Pro SP1

RE: Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

Have you looked at Assembly Arrangements? These allow you to define multiple 'arrangements' of Components in the same Assembly, as shown in the example below where you see two view of the same Safety Hand-wheel Assembly, one with the handle stored and one with it deployed.

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: Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

In NX something closer could be done with a collection of many commands; Assemblies, Arrangements, move components, Suppression by expressions, master model drawings etc. Too complicated and time consuming and I don’t think that anyone will attempt such.

Comparatively NX mates or constrains are very vague and limited and I find users are trying not to use them. Hence NX assemblies are more of in a static form.

Michael Fernando (CSWE)
www.solidCADworks.com
Tool and Die Designer
Siemens NX V9.0 + PDW
SWX 2013 SP3.0 X64
PDMWorks 2013
Logopress3
FastForm Advance
FormatWorks


RE: Limit Distance Mate And Alternate Position View .

Starting with NX 11.0, we are adding a new concept of a 'Driven' constraint, where for Distance and Angular constraints (the only ones where this makes sense) you will now be able to define an 'Upper' and/or 'Lower' limit to the 'value' of the constraint, thus allowing the movement of the Components-of-interest through what would now be a limited range of motion.

Attached is a video showing how I used this feature to limit the angular motion of my 'famous' Butterfly Valve to only 90°, from fully closed to fully open, as well as anywhere in-between, but that's all.

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.

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