CAD files other than NX
CAD files other than NX
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Just curious, does anyone else get CAD files they can’t open very much because customers will send Catia, Creo, Inventor, or any other CAD file?
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RE: CAD files other than NX
But we either 1) request neutral format files, or 2) buy the software needed to open it.
RE: CAD files other than NX
RE: CAD files other than NX
RE: CAD files other than NX
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I often have to request neutral formats, but fortunately our largest customers use NX and CATIA and those are the two CAD softwares we run.
Biggest headache in the cad world.. model exchange!
For drawings, usually always have to request them exported separately preferably as PDF. 3D PMI is only used by some customers and STEP doesn't seem to always capture it all correctly.
RE: CAD files other than NX
RE: CAD files other than NX
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RE: CAD files other than NX
NX 10
RE: CAD files other than NX
Can you elaborate? If you have right-clicked on the .prt file, Open with->Choose default program->Selecting your desired version of NX, that should work all the time. If you have two versions of NX (for example I have NX 9 and 10) you need to manually select one or the other, NX can figure it out most of the time but you need to be sure.
What is happening when it doesn't work? Setting the default association is about all you can do in Windows for when you double-click on a file.
Also, you can drag the .prt file onto the blank NX window after NX is open if you want to do that. Be careful not to drag onto an open part window though as that will add the component to the other as an assembly. You need to minimize existing windows within NX to continue to drag n' drop method.
Felix K. Holloway
www.nxprotips.com
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NX 10
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Your better off with drag and drop anyways. If you click on a new .prt file after NX is already open, it will create a new instance of NX instead of opening the file in the current session. What you want is to open new files in the existing session, in which you are limited to drag and drop or opening and navigating from within NX.
This kind of makes sense, because Windows is actually controlling what happens when you double click a file, not NX, so I don't see any way to work around that short of some crazy hacking of your computer (probably not advised
Maybe your computer is set to not open a new session of a program once it is already running, hence NX not opening again nothing happening when you double click another .prt file. That would be my best guess.
Felix K. Holloway
www.nxprotips.com
RE: CAD files other than NX
NX 10
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NX 10
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NX 10
RE: CAD files other than NX
NX 10
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Sorry! Best of luck.
Felix K. Holloway
www.nxprotips.com
RE: CAD files other than NX
Many thanks.
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Re-run the NX install of NX10 . That will fix this problem for you. It's either the registry-something or the local Windows system variables, either way the install cures it.
pnavy.
These symbols, are they custom symbols or images ? Images ( .jpg / .png etc) do not convert to dwg/dxf. Custom symbols does / should convert.
Regards,
Tomas