Hi All,
I haven't been around for a while since I retired to sunny Puerto Rico.
I live in rural PR and the power quality is pretty poor, lots of outages, varying voltages and switching transients from the POCO. The volts are typically too high (right now 130s each leg) and it jumps up and down a...
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I'm working on repairing one of our cutting presses. It has an 7" hydraulic cylinder (about 80 KIP max force) that the original manufacturer attached the rod end to a 3/4" thick x 6" square CRS plate that is supported on the outside edges. Over about 20 years it indented about .060"...
I'm sure this is one those really obvious things that I just can't see, but I have a drawing that I've created from my model file and I have all of the lines that I want. Now I want to pick some of the lines and change their format (dotted, color, something) so my customer can easily tell which...
Hi all,
We're upgrading from NX10 to NX110 and of course there're some challenges. When I open Sketch(Direct or Task) the new window doesn't have the same kinds of options as before. In NX10 we could choose a plane and then choose direction and origin options. In NX11 it's just pick a plane...
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I'm new to the AD Click PLC. I'm using their software to program in ladder logic. I want to have a byte that I modify in code (using their math functions) and then output the bits as individual coils, but I can't find a way to access individual bits in a byte. Does anyone know if there's...
Hi Guys,
Does anyone know if there's a direct way to measure from the MCS in Machining to places on the model? The only way I've seen is to create some king of other geometry at the MCS and then measure to that. This is both a PITA and an occasional point of failure for us. You'd think...
Hi Guys,
I probably should call GTAC, but I thought maybe someone could answer this for me. We've just moved to 8.5 in the last month and we're having a problem with the Blend command. As you can see on the jpeg, the blend isn't making it all the way to the end. The little triangular area would...
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I have a machine that seems to occasionally lose its active code to run the chip conveyor and then coolant overflows onto the floor. I'd like to inject a line with M31 every hundred lines or so. I can't get a handle on how to do this in postbuilder. In the past I've added code to the...
Can anyone help me figure out how to machine the undercut areas of this part in 7.0 or 7.5 with a 3-axis machine? In I-deas I would have used a T-slot cutter with a profile cut but in NX I can't get anything to hit the undercut regions.
Thanks, JohnK
Hi Guys,
I'm working in 7.0 (7.5 as soon as I find the time to install). I have a part that needs lots of individual blended radii that are variable. I can do them one at a time but it's going to take a long time and is quite tedious. This seems like a place for a macro. Before I reinvent the...
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This is probably really simple but, when I hide a sketch, coordinate system, etc of a component in an assembly, the hidden items keep reverting back to shown. In a similar vein, when I pack an array, every time I open the assembly I have to go back and pack everything again. What am I...
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Does anyone know a way to machine along a sketch curve in NX? In I-deas we use manual mill to engrave line art logos, part numbers and such by choosing the curves and entering how far to machine into the part. I've looked at Contour_text but that only works with text, not sketch curves...
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Coming to NX7.0.0.9 from Ideas. I'm recreating some parameter-based family designs. All went well, but now I'ld like to set limits to the variables I've created. I see a column titled Checks in the Expression window but can't find any info in the Help. Can I use this, or something else...
