×
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

Add component

Add component

Add component

(OP)
Hi All,

When I'm inserting a new component with the preview window I'd like the component visible in the main view. To do this I checked both check-marks in the assembly constrains window.
I looks like it works fine but...... the component preview in the main window is sort of on the other side of the world. I have to zoom out pretty far to see the component.

The first pic beneath is the view when I inserted the component.
The second pic is the view zoomend out which shows the inserted rectangular bar bar on the top right side.





How can i fix this behavior?

Lars



Lars
NX11.0.2.7 native
Solid Edge
Inventor

RE: Add component

It has to do with the location of the Absolute Origin in the relative Part files. Open the Component part file and see where the Absolute Origin is located relative to the geometric model.

John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without

RE: Add component

Bear in mind that if you are using the "by constraints" positioning option when adding the component, you can select geometry from the preview window and/or the main window to specify the constraints. For example, if you want to create a face/face touch constraint, you can select one face from the component in the preview window and the other face from another component in the main graphics window. This way, you always have the assembly and the new component in view. You can completely constrain the component with the preview window open, or you can apply enough constraints to get it close to the main assembly then finish the constraints in the main window.

www.nxjournaling.com

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