Advice on using part fimily drawings needed. (NX 7.5)

[RobLN]

Hi Some advice if you could please!


I have created a part family of an assembly.
There are about 50 members of the family. The master assembly has a 2D drawing (Embedded style, no separate drawing)

When I revise the master assembly the 2D drawing updates fine.

The 2D drawings for each member of the family updates as well - no problem. But to create a PDF I need to then do a manual update which I can then not save (Family members cannot be saved error)

So I need to get the drawing for the members Fully Updated so I can PDF export them and save so that the 2D NX file matches the PDF! - Any ideas??

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers.



Solid Edge; I-Deas 7 to 12; NX4, NX5 & currently NX6.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can always do a 'Save-As' with any of the part Family members, which will remove the hard-coded 'Read-Only' status. But it will no longer be able to be automatically updated if you ever make changes to the Part Family master.

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[MickyV007]

At our company we make use of separate codenumbers (assies) with the members of the table as part in it, that way your drawing will be auto updated if you update the member. Only disadvantage is the growth of nested codenumbers (not clearly visable where the members are used).

Best regards,

Michaël.

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[RobLN]

Thank you both for the feedback.

I have to say that overall I'm happy with the results of the part family driven drawings. Just would be nice to make and save a couple of tweeks to child drawings as needed. I can make the change and 'save it' within the PDF but to do that in the .prt drawing as well would be great. (i.e. something like a view dependent edit for the child drawing which can be saved as non associative mods..) any plans on this? Or other plans / ideas for managing 3D /2D drawing families for assemblies?

I know about the 'save as' but I must keep the links to the master for future updates.

Codenumbers sounds like an interesting plan, what happens to weight attributes in your structure? Can you get the assembly part family to substitute a component and still maintain the weight measurements? (I.E. from Analysis -> measure bodies...)

Here is what I get

'' Object Body Measurement in member 002515441 produced an update warning.
This warning has been accepted, and update will continue.
Update warning Body Measurement(15)
In part: 002515442
The measurement is not associative. ''

Best regards

RLN.


Solid Edge; I-Deas 7 to 12; NX4, NX5 & currently NX6.

 

[JurgenKreisel]

Are you running in managed or unmanaged mode?
We run in managed (Teamcenter) mode, so when I need to update a part family member drawing I login as infodba with permissions to modify the data. Granted our drawings are separate data-sets and not embedded into the part file.

Regards
Jurgen
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