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Is there any way using NXOpen to print to file (using an installed plotter, in my case an HPGL. i.e. I don't want to generate a CGM or tiff file, I want to create an HPGL file which I can do manually using an installed plotter and printing to file)? Thanks

Thanks John, that makes sense. Do you know if there's a way with the 'High Quality Image' function to get a white background for the image? Thanks.

Is there a way to open an excel spreadsheet from a VB.net journal without having to specify the executable path for the excel program (i.e. I just want to open a workbook from a journal without knowing where the excel exe is stored)? Thanks.

I'm trying to write a journal that I can run from the command line which will open a part and export an image of the part as a jpg. But I want it to run without having to open a UG window (i.e. run in the background, I don't want to see the parts being processed). I can do this with a journal...

In NXOpen, let's say you have a component 'c' which is part of a multi-level assembly. When using the assembly navigator, you can 'Pack All' and it will group identical components together in each sub-assembly and put a 'x 2', or whatever, indicating how many of those components are in a...

Does anyone know an easy way using NXOpen to get all the components in an assembly (including subassemblies) saved to an array? I like to sort the assembly tree in descending order and then export it to a spreadsheet. I would ideally like to get that same structure/order, but I need it in...

I'm trying to get the extreme X and Y coordinates of an assembly using NXOpen. Essentially, I'm rotating the assembly about the Z axis one degree at a time and each time I need to get the X and Y limits of the assembly (in the absolute CSYS). Right now I'm using UFModl.AskBoundingBox to do...

Is there a quick way in NX7.5 to get the minimum distance between two components (with multiple bodies in each component) in an assembly? Thanks.

Never mind. I found it.

Thanks jpetach. But do you know if there is a function which will take in the value of the expression and output the tag (I want to be able to easily input a value for the clearance zone)?

Hi, I'm using NXOpen to check some assembly clearances. I'd like to set the default clearance zone (say, 5mm) for the assembly clearance using the UFClear.SetDefaultClearanceZone method. The problem is, the clearance zone argumenat this method accepts is a tag object. How do I know what the...

Also along these lines, right now I check to see if something is a body in NXOpen by using: b.issolidbody (where b is type body). Can anyone tell me how to find out if the body is a faceted body

Well I would try with solids and factes and see how each works out, but the problem is figuring out the coding for setting these options and calling the clearance check function.

Does anyone know the NXOpen .NET nomenclature for creating an assembly clearance set which has a facet based analysis and then run the clerance analysis on that set and output whether or not there is interference (no details, just go-no go)? Thanks.

John, Thanks. I toggled that option on but I'm still getting the same result. I guess what I really want to do is create a clearance set and set the properties to make the analysis mode facet based and then run a clearance check on that set using NXOPEN but I don't know the coding.