NX 8.0 drawing linked to several parts

[bavvool]

Hello,

I have a part that has several variants. Each variant is stored in a separate file . I need to create one drawing which would consist of several views, each view should be of a different variant of the part. Is there any function in NX that would allow me to do this without creating an assembly file?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, after first creating a Drawing based on one of the Part files, select the Drawing border, press MB3 and select the 'Add Base View...' option. When the dialog opens, at bottom the section of the dialog labeled 'Part', you will see an 'Open' icon. Select it and you can then browse to where you can select any one of your other Part files that you want to include a view of on your drawing. You can repeat this as many times as needed. Once these additional 'Base' views are placed, you can then create projected views from any one of them if you need to. NX will continue to consider this as being a Drawing of that initial Part file but the other Parts will remain linked and their views will update just like the main Drawing views, whenever any model changes occur in any of the referenced Part files.

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[bavvool]

Thanks a lot