Finding the main assembly file? 1

[skanskan]

Hello.

When you open a folder containing 100 files related with an assembly...
How do you quickly find the main assembly file?
(The one that makes reference to all other).

For example wholecar.prt = chassis.prt + wheels.prt + steeringwheel.prt + engine.prt + seats.prt

 

[JohnRBaker]

Without your use of some sort of well thought-out naming scheme, that might be difficult. However, while this might seem counter intuitive, sort the files by size and the assembly could very well be one of the SMALLER files.

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[NutAce]

Should be possible to write a special tool for that..
Isn't the import assembly tool able to determine the parent from a set of files in a folder?

Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
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[studiotreccani]

I put "_" in the beginnig of the assembly file so,
without change the name of the file
I found the file at the top of the exlorer.
ex ( _wholecar.prt )

 

[JohnRBaker]

While an Assembly knows its 'children', a Component does NOT know its 'parent'. That's why you can create an Assembly of Component parts even if you do not have write access to those parts. There is nothing IN a Component part file which indicates what assembly(s) that it might be part of.

That being said, there is an Assemblies 'Where used report' utility which, given the name of a part file, will report back all of the Assemblies where this part has been used as a Component, but it uses a brute-force approach. It literally 'looks' insides of every file in the folders that you indicate, checking first whether this file is an Assembly, and if it is, it will then check to see if the part file-of-interest is one of the Components of the Assembly. Depending on how many parts are in your folders and how many folders are indicated, this search could take a while before it will return any results, but it does work, if you don't mind waiting. To find this tool, go to...

Information -> Assemblies -> Where Used....

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.

 

[KhimaniMohiki]

open one of the child parts then use Information>Assemblies>Where Used, this will show where the child part is used according to the revision rule in place.

Khimani Mohiki
Design Engineer - Aston Martin
NX8.5

 

[crecore]

You are obviously in Native. We use the master model concept. This is the master document and you can get to the assembly or any sub assembly or part, regardless of location, from within this file. There is however, the added complication that you cannot get the the master model drawing of a child part using this method.

NX 9.0.1.3