junfanbl
Marine/Ocean
- Jun 10, 2015
- 90
Hello, I am hoping somebody can give me some advice on how to continue with my project.
I have set up an Excel Workbook that remotely connects to NX. I have include some functionality that when the Workbook opens it populates certain attribute data from the model that is currently loaded into the spreadsheet. One of those data attributes is the tag number of each part. When a user clicks on a part name in the spreadsheet, it will send the corresponding tag number into NX and will cycle through the components tag numbers until it finds the part in question. After finding the part, it highlights it. Essentially all I wanted to do was create this functionality that would help a user map there part(s) list to the model interactively. Sometimes when you are working with large assemblies this can be useful. I am sure some of you can attest to how useful this feature would be.
I am having an issue though. The tag numbers are often unique to each part, except for occurrence data. Any parts that are the same in the assembly not only share the same name, but the same tag number as well. So when selecting one occurrence of a part, you end up highlighting all of them.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it can be useful but I would like to be able to single out a part without selecting all of the occurrences. Is there any other criteria I can use to try and accomplish this? I thought of possibly using a combination of tag numbers and centers, which very well may work, but it seems error prone.
Any other ideas?
I have set up an Excel Workbook that remotely connects to NX. I have include some functionality that when the Workbook opens it populates certain attribute data from the model that is currently loaded into the spreadsheet. One of those data attributes is the tag number of each part. When a user clicks on a part name in the spreadsheet, it will send the corresponding tag number into NX and will cycle through the components tag numbers until it finds the part in question. After finding the part, it highlights it. Essentially all I wanted to do was create this functionality that would help a user map there part(s) list to the model interactively. Sometimes when you are working with large assemblies this can be useful. I am sure some of you can attest to how useful this feature would be.
I am having an issue though. The tag numbers are often unique to each part, except for occurrence data. Any parts that are the same in the assembly not only share the same name, but the same tag number as well. So when selecting one occurrence of a part, you end up highlighting all of them.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it can be useful but I would like to be able to single out a part without selecting all of the occurrences. Is there any other criteria I can use to try and accomplish this? I thought of possibly using a combination of tag numbers and centers, which very well may work, but it seems error prone.
Any other ideas?