Adding "History Free" to the Part Navigator time line

[ingallspw]

Is there anyway to place the "History Free Mode" in the actual time line of the part navigator?

Ok... If you said "HUH???" then take a look at the image I modified.

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...9-4b24-b265-fecbc8655920&file=historyfree.jpg

(I PhotoShopped it in there to illustrate).

Basically I have a complicated part that is "set in stone" but every time I make an update it has to process and update the whole time line. I would like to keep the history in the actual file I am working on but if I could just put a "History-Free" point in the time line that creates a B-Rep of all it's parents I think the processing time would be a whole lot less... in fact if I go to history free mode and make updates it does run faster.

(My thought process came from seeing how the I-deas Content Migration Manager works with B-reps when it has trouble processing certain steps.)

Just curious...

Thanks!

Keegan

 

[cowski]

No, at least not in NX6.

Can you wave link a copy of your solid body into a new file and work on it in history free mode there?

 

[JohnRBaker]

But you can, in NX 6.0, perform a...

Insert -> Associative Copy -> Extract...

...with the Type set to 'Body' and the Setting 'Fix at Current Timestamp' toggled ON as well as 'Hide Original', and selecting your original model and hitting OK.

You can now proceed to add features and make changes to the 'Extracted Body' and the original model will no longer need to update, yet you could still go back to the original so-called "set in stone" model and make changes to it which would be inherited by the extracted copy.

Now as Cowski suggested, this could also be done using a WAVE-linked copy extracted into another part file for the ULTIMATE in a 'history-free' example, but what I suggested will also give you what you're looking for, but using only a single part model, albeit somewhat larger since it will now contain TWO bodies, one with all the original features and the associative 'copy' one with only those features created AFTER the 'Extraction'.

Anyway, give either of these approaches a try and see if they give you the behavior that you're looking for.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[uwam2ie]

... I have read it more than one time -
You can remove the parameters on the set in stone geometry and work in the history mode ---

 

[ingallspw]

Thanks guys! I'll give it a go! Sounds like what I was looking for though!

THANKS!!!

Keegan