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excel to tell NX to input templates?

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tryingthis

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Hello,

I have figured out how to use an internal spreadsheet to update my models/drawings. Now I need something a little more complicated.

1). I have a spreadsheet that gives the user a number of very important dimensions. My goal is to make our drafting process more automated. The excel sheet can give NX the length and locations of everything. I have a cylinder with given number grooves defined by the excel sheet. I want NX to read the number of grooves and the groove types (both are drop downs in my sheet) then choose the correct template that the company has already created for each groove type and place it in the right spot based on the dimensions my excel sheet has found. Any way that is possible? I need groove type, number of grooves, and location dimensions to be read from the sheet, then NX needs to insert the correct groove from the template.

Thanks for any help, just trying to automate our drafting process!
 
Something like this, it might be better just to do the entire thing using NX Open and try and get the system to somehow respond to the values of cells in an internal spreadsheet, which could be done but which would still require something written in NX Open, so why not just do it straight away.

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I'm sorry I'm still new to NX and the whole system. What exactly is NX Open? From what I can tell it's a way to program inside NX to do things. How do I access that? Also, I don't know code very well. Any chance I could do this without NX Open and writing C++?

Thanks again!
 
'NX Open' is a catch-all phrase covering the suite of API, or programming tools, which you can be use to create custom applications or utilities for use with NX. As for 'NX Open for non programmers' there are tools for capturing journals of interactive workflows which can be run as is, as a sort of macro, or modified to form the basis of a program with logic and additional calls added to provide functionality not able to be journalized since there is no equivalent interactive workflow to accomplish the task.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
So no way around using NX open huh?
 
Not that I'm aware of.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
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