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NX export to STEP or any other format: custom material attributes

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kuliyev

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Jun 18, 2016
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Hello everyone,
I am new to the whole NX pipeline, I apologize in advance for any wrong naming of NX functions.

My goal is to establish a working pipeline for material definition export from NX to any type of an export format (STEP, IGES etc.). The exported files are then passed to the visualization department, which is working with Autodesk 3dsMax and a rendering engine of their choice. Material definition is a huge problem in our current NX > STEP > Autodesk pipeline, since no named materials are being exported into the STEP format.

As stated at [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cax-if.org/[/url] there is a way to store materials inside of a STEP file. For example, the following file contains a material defininion for "AMS 4928; Titanium 6-4":

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cax-if.org/library/dm1-id-214.zip[/url]

My questions are:
1) How do I assign / export material definition from NX to STEP to achieve a result like in the ZIP file above?
2)The Material assignment for Viz may vary, e.g. "Steel" can have anisotropic or isotropic reflective parameters.
One can assign custom attributes, where a descriptive material name could be given to a part. This would be enough to parse the exported STEP file in Viz. for material assignment.
Is there a generic way to export custom attributes (assigned through part properties in NX) to STEP, or any other export format?
3) In general: is there a way to export "DB_PART_NAME", "DB_PART_DESC" etc. to STEP,or any other export format?

We have both NX 8.5 and 10 at our disposal.

I have searched the forums here for possible answers, but found only this thread:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=398294[/url]

Thanks a lot for your help!
 
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