×
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

Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

(OP)
What is the difference between "Within Work Part Only" and "Within Work Part and Component" in the Selection Scope of the assembly module?
It seems to do the same thing, and I'm sure there is a difference.
Can anyone also tell me a practical application of this?

Thanks.

RE: Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

Hi,
Assume that your work part is an assembly.

Select scope Work part doesn't allow you to select in any component.

Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.fr

RE: Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

Does DidierPSICAD's answer your question Baratheons? To reiterate, having 'Within Work Part and Component" enabled allows selection of subcomponent geometry within a higher-level assembly vs only being able to select geometry in that high-level assembly (assuming the assembly is made work part).

Felix K. Holloway - Designer - NX 9 & 11

RE: Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

(OP)
When I have "Within Work Part and Component" active, how can I select the actual subcomponent within a subassembly?
Using QuickPick, I can select the faces and the Solid Body, but not the actual component itself.

So if I highlight a SolidBody belonging to a subcomponent using quickpick, and I press "Expand to Selected" (using assembly navigator), it won't actually do anything.

RE: Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

There are a couple ways to do this. Using quickpick, you can select the component itself, it is the one with the yellow cube next to its name.

Or you can use the pre-selection filter to be set to "components" only which will only allow you to grab components and not individual geometry pieces.

See below for images of both scenarios.

Is that what you are looking for?

Selection Filter:


Quick Pick:

Felix K. Holloway - Designer - NX 9 & 11

RE: Selection Scope NX 10 Assembly

(OP)
Hi,

Thank you for the images, but I cannot get the subassembly components to display in the quickpick menu (in this image the head_o_ring, reflector, etc), only the subassembly itself (head). When I activate quickpick, it lumps the subassembly into one component and it does not separate it even with "Within Work Part and Component" active. As shown. When I have the component filter selected, it won't allow me to go to quick pick. One solution would be to set the subassembly as the work part, but in the case of a bigger assembly, how will I know what subassembly an individual component belongs to?

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