Part family new member doesn't include assembly components

[carlharr]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone could help.

I've got an assembly part family and I'm having some trouble whereby when I create a new family member, it doesn't have any assembly components.

On the attached powerpoint sheet 1 is the family master and it's excel sheet.

I am trying to create the component highlighted on the excel sheet first, as it is effectively the same BOM as the master - so should be easiest to do.


So, I have taken out the new item number in Teamcenter 128/H3859, and then in the master in Excel go to "create part", and the new member (NX dataset) is created and pulled into the family members folder.

But, the new member's assembly tree is empty - see second sheet of powerpoint attached.


There's a long story behind this and I've tried a few times to create the new part, but it won't create with the assembly.

As I've never used part families to create "assemblies" before, I wondered, is there something obvious that I'm missing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

 

[carlharr]

OK, I managed to create the new family members by...

- creating the structure in teamcenter structure manager first, for a new family member assembly
- editing the master CAD file so it matched the required structure for the new assembly
- creating the new assembly CAD file from family master template

This was the only way I could find to create the new assemblies (and them to have an assembly structure), afterwards they update fine.

But it can't be the correct way to create a new family member assembly in the NX-TC environment I'm sure.

So if anyone knows the correct way, I'd be happy to hear.

Thanks, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

 

[Kenja824]

I cant see all of your spread sheet, so I am taking a guess here. When you open family parts but before you open the spread sheet, you need to add the components into the list. At the top of the dialog box, there is a drop down for Available Columns, and you can switch that to "Components". Then in the spread sheet, for each family member, you need to put "YES" or "NO" below the components to tell it if each particular component is in each particular family member.

I hope that made sense. lol

 

[carlharr]

Hi Kenja,

It did make sense, and has sort of worked but not quite...

NX defaulted to putting actual part numbers in the columns, so I left them like that.
For the reason that two of the parts are "changed" per family member, and those two columns were already in the spreadsheet.

See attached - yellow = pre-existing columns, green = new columns I added.

So first I created the family member that is same as the master, 2nd from last member on the sheet.
"Create Part" created an empty part, but then "Update Part" populated it with the components.

But unfortunately for the other part(s), "Update Part" gave an "error processing menu callback", and wouldn't populate the assemblies.

I repeated this all twice to make sure.


So one last question - are the "change component" columns (in yellow) correct?

There might be something else wrong with this family, hard to say as I didn't create it.
Would just like to be sure I've got the process right.

Thanks in advance, Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3