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  1. godpaul

    about drawing automation question

    my ULTIMATE goal is to create drawings in which EVERYTHING can be updated by defining some values from Database like Excel and then use single-mouse click and GO... through 2 months of work, most of my time is spent on doing drawing automation process. For example, in the Excel, i change some...
  2. godpaul

    render set puzzle in drafting

    nx 8.5 i created a simple assembly, a rod is inserted in the base in the picture, the right side view is my final goal, i just want to show these dot line only. i follow the tutorial of NX cast and tried reference set, but still no luck did i miss any procedure in terms of the reder set...
  3. godpaul

    how to use section view in drafting to hide the remaining geometry

    NX 8.5 the attached picture is an example. real geometry has lots of features i want to give a top view of the cap, HOWEVER, I do not want to show the remaining geometry which is the big disc. I sort of learn that section view option has "Foreground", "beckground" option, I follow the help...
  4. godpaul

    is this a good practice to use boundary option in drawing

    suppose i have a long rod, but i am only interested in the sharp tip , so i use boundary option to hide the remaining body of the rod i know that detail view can give similar result, but since i want to have the base view and projected view aligned together, that's why i use boundary option to...
  5. godpaul

    line weight choices in NX drafting

    nx 8.5 in NX drafting, why there are not many line weight options? we only have 0.13, 0.18, 0.25, 0.5, 0.7 1.00, 1.4 and 2.0 today i printed out the drawing and compare it with the standard template drawing developed by Autodesk people and found out the line weight in NX drawing is much...
  6. godpaul

    there are some anchor point on some drafting view, how to remove

    my drawing view has some sketches on it, and you can there is a blue anchor point on the tip and after the drawing is exported to PDF, the anchor point is exaggerated!! what's the cause of it and how to remove it ? thank you...
  7. godpaul

    weird thing after creating template in NX

    here is what i did 1. new model--> blanik model 2. click NX start switch to drafting 3. Preference > annotation, then started to change font size from 3 to 2 4. mark as template and create a new PAX file testing 1. new model 2. new drawing, selcet the template i created weir thing: the font...
  8. godpaul

    VB code to export drawing file to PDF even through there are multiple drawing files are open

    here is the original code by cowski: http://nxjournaling.com/?q=content/exporting-drawings-pdf-files-using-nx-journal i first played around the code but found that it worked only for the currently displayed part darwing. however, i have multiple part drawing open so i need to update those part...
  9. godpaul

    simple sample code for looping through all open part and update them

    based on cowski suggestion yesterday, here is the simple code for updating all model, for simplicity, i didnt link to Excel but just ask the cdeo to find a specific parameter and replace the value, after that, update the model 'loop through all models and update Option Strict Off Imports System...
  10. godpaul

    i try to run the code from GTAC, but gives me error message

    i am studying the code from GTAC. the code is to update all parts and all drawing. but when i run, it gives error: Nxopen.Nxexception. part or occurence is not a descendant of the root part at NXopen.parCollection.Setwork(Basepart.part) what does this error mean? what i did is create 4...
  11. godpaul

    in assembly how to align XY, YZ or ZX plane of a component with the XY, YZ, or ZX of the global axis

    i add the first component and make it FIX (IS IT GOOD), so that later on all components will be assembled based on that component, but when the 2nd component is added in assembly, how to align the global plane XY of the 2nd component TO the global plane XY of the assembly environment? thanks
  12. godpaul

    is this a good practice to create drawing file for assembly?

    here is what i plan to do: complete model 1.prt complete model 2.prt complete assembly for model 1 and 2, get assembly.prt then finally, create a STANDALONE DRAWING insert blank sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3 on sheet 1, insert base view, when prompted for prt file, pick model 1.prt on sheet 2...
  13. godpaul

    idea of smart assmebly

    please take a look at the picture,. suppose i have a component called rod and since it is circular, it will be assembled with a knob whose center cavity is also circular if the shape of the rod changes to rectangular, then another corresponding component which is a knob with center cavity of...
  14. godpaul

    i created the border using sketch, how to hide the sketch procedure in the part navigator

    the border option in nx8.5 is not the format we want, so i sketched the border myself i saw some people's customed border and they dont have "sketch" procedure in the part navigator... how to get rid of the sketch procedure? thank you...
  15. godpaul

    how to link a cell in a titleblock to part attribute?

    in the drawing, i created a simple tabular notes and then i made it as titleblock. in file > property, attribute tab, i create a string attribute called "CUTTINGSPEED0" now my goal is whenever i modify the string value of the CUTTINGSPEED, the cell2 in titleblock is updated. is it possible...
  16. godpaul

    i try to find get the title of a attribute for a tabular note, but failed

    i first recorded the journal to see what code it will give to you if i try to modify the title of attribute. then i get the code and modify it with my understanding Option Strict Off Imports System Imports NXOpen Imports NXOpen.Annotations Imports NXOpen.UI Imports NXOpen.UF Imports...
  17. godpaul

    what's the correct syntax to loop through Excel codename uisng NX Journal?

    the following code is from nxjournaling.com Option Strict Off Imports System Imports NXOpen Imports NXOpen.Annotations Imports NXOpen.UI Imports NXOpen.UF Imports NXOpen.Utilities Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Environment Module...
  18. godpaul

    what's the correct synax to loop through each tabular notes on drawing

    i try to identify the name of each tabular note table on drawing, so i find the following and try to add the last two lines: 'edit tab note cell text revised by me Imports System Imports NXOpen Imports NXOpen.Annotations Imports NXOpen.UI Imports NXOpen.UF Imports NXOpen.Utilities Imports...
  19. godpaul

    question about debuging in NX

    I found two posts here: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=290183 http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=364048 Quotes: 1. Start NX 2. Start VS with the project you want to debug 3. Create one or more break points in the project 4. In VS choose Debug->Attach to Process... 5. Choose...
  20. godpaul

    I run this code, but got some error

    nx 8.5 + office 2013 pro 32bit as you mentioned ms access 32bit cannot talk to NX 8.5, so i want to try excel and i found a post where you posted some code to write excel file using journal: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=311938 after i run the code, the following error occurs...

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