Exporting Part Volume Data

[AnAngryScotsman]

Hello,

I have a part and I am creating a journal to edit it. As part of this process, I want to read the volume of each iteration and have this exported automatically for use in further calculations.

Is there a function in NX 12.0 where I can export data like this?

Thanks

 

[NutAce]

Short answer.
No there isn't. You need to code this yourself.
You can get the information with o.o.t.b functions but there is no function to export.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[cowski]

This article shows how to write information to a text file.

Exporting to Excel is also possible; Yamada posted a guide here:

Siemens Digital Industries Software Community

I think the guide assumes you have a .net author license - even if you do not, writing to Excel is possible, but more difficult.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[Toost]

uncertain on the requirement here, do you want to create a program that steps through a list of values and for each step report the volume -> Excel or similar,
or, as soon as you have done a change see the resulting volume ?
There are Goal seek functions in the integrated spreadsheet in NX, many years ago that i did that though so i do not remember the details.
But I am pretty sure that volume is a possible target.
And, I think NX has optimization functions , but these might require a special license. ( the goal seek is the poor mans version, and should be in the modeling license.)

Regards,
Tomas