Well that has sorted out one issue but raises more questions.
I never heard of any of the GB193 standard, or of any of those listed below it. A quick search on NX help & the internet doesn't give any great help except GB193 might be a Chinese standard.
Could anyone help with what all these...
For some reason the standard under Threaded Hole in Customer Defaults had been set to 'Metric Coarse'. Changing this to ISO suddenly revealed a whole load of other thread forms.
However it doesn't address the fact that I wish to have a thread that is M100x4, not M100x6 that is coarse and M100x2...
I'm sure that this must have been covered before but my searching isn't being helpful so:
I am trying to create a tapped hole with the thread M100x4 unfortunately the hole feature only gives the option for M100x6 and I can't find a way to change this. On the same sort of line, how would I put...
The assembly structure isn't critical and associativity isn't relevant since we are exporting the files to be used in ANSYS outside of the controlled CAD/PDM environment.
We have tried using derived parts in Inventor to reduce the number of parts being used by making fabrications into single...
Currently in Inventor, we export assemblies, mostly for analysis, in 2 ways.
Firstly by Pack and Go which basically is a refined Save As, creating a duplicate assembly
Secondly by creating a derived part. For analysis, this is typically done by deriving a fabrication assembly into a single part...
All good stuff.
I was having a confused time until I remembered that greys don't work if the drawing is set to monochrome!
A way I have found for selecting whole parts or sub-assemblies in the View Dependant Edit process is to hide all other components and then use Select All in the Class...
Erasing objects isn't what I am trying to do, though it is a useful tool.
What I don't seem to be able to do in the View Dependent Edit is to be able to select an entire component rather than having to select every line.
So I right click on the view border and select View Dependent Edit. In...
Nice ideas, obviously 2 is just hide so not a solution...
Is there a way to be able to select a whole component for 1 & 3 rather than just faces & edges? It seems a very laborious way to do this.
Nick Green
Lead Design Engineer
IHC Engineering Business Ltd.
UK
Another query coming from my evaluation of NX as a replacement for Inventor.
We regularly change the colour of components in drawings from black to grey to give clarity to drawings. So for a fabrication, the first sheet would have isometric views with the BOM table and balloons, sheet 2 would...
That is exactly what I am trying to do, I had already tried Arrangements for positional variations but hadn't worked out how to suppress components as well.
Nick Green
Lead Design Engineer
IHC Engineering Business Ltd.
UK
The arrangement is fine on a single level but I don't seem to be able to call up an arrangement to be used in an arrangement at a higher level.
I am trying to find a suitable solution for top level models that are likely to be in the order of 250k components which are parts of assemblies that...
So how, using your example, do I define refset xx to call up refset yy which in turn calls up refset zz?
Also, when in an assembly, how do I know what has is going to be displayed in a Reference Set?
Nick Green
Lead Design Engineer
IHC Engineering Business Ltd.
UK
How do you define visibility of components in arrangements? I can control position that way but not visibility.
Nick Green
Lead Design Engineer
IHC Engineering Business Ltd.
UK
I can call up a reference set in a 2 tier assembly but I can't see how you can call up a reference set of a sub-assembly with a reference set in the layer above.
So, as an example, I've got a 3 tier assembly and the bottom level has a step made with steel grating and also a simplified block...
I am investigating whether it is possible in NX to get the same functionality that we currently get in Inventor from the use of Levels of Detail (LoD).
So each assembly can have a number of LoDs assigned to it which control what components or sub-assemblies are active or suppressed.
As a basic...
