Automatic mass update

[dzupfrg]

I found the practice, how to add mass information on my drawing. This working, but after change my solid, mass not update, because command "Measure body" is not last command in my part navigator. How to solve without manualy edit (moving command in part navigator)?
Thanks.


NX 11.0.1.11

 

[PSI-CAD]

Hi,
It's logical !!!
What do you expect ?

Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos

http://www.psi-cad.fr

 

[dzupfrg]

Automatic update mass after change solid.

NX 11.0.1.11

 

[ewh]

Logically, the mass will only update to the point it is included in the feature navigator; it can't see any operations after that.
If you don't want to move the command in the navigator, make the preceding feature the current feature before making any changes.
While the feature number of the mass information will change, you wouldn't be doing it manually. ;-)

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[cowski]

In the save options, turn on the "generate weight data" option. The calculated weight will show up in the assembly navigator "weight" column as well as the file -> properties -> weight tab. This may require an "advanced assemblies" license, I'm not sure of the requirements.

If ewh's solution is too much work for you, there is an old trick of creating an associative extracted body with the timestamp option turned off (this keeps the extracted body at the end of the feature list) and using the measure body command on this copy. The downside is that you will need to manually remove it from the model reference set (you only need to do it once, but it is easy to forget) and having a copy of your finished model in the file can have a negative impact on performance. Also, this technique can confuse other users that are not familiar with it. If someone starts adding new features to the copy instead of the "real" model, it can get ugly.

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[cowski]

Of course a custom solution is also possible. One way would be to write a journal that looks for the measurement feature and reorders it to the end of the list. Menuscript could be used to modify the "save" command to run the journal every time the save command is used. This would somewhat mimic the "generate weight data on save" mechanism.

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