Bookmarks

[DLH81]

I am looking into using bookmarks, but I have some questions about how they work.

1. I'm using NX8 and TC8. When I save a bookmark, it looks like the only option is to save a .plmxml file to my local drive. Is there an option to save the bookmark within teamcenter?

2. What happens in the case where I save a bookmark of an assembly, and after saving the bookmark, someone goes in and makes modifications to a sub assembly within that assembly. Do the modifications show up when opening the bookmark? What if components have been added/deleted?

 

[jpetach]

DLH81,

1) The plmxml file is written to the local file system for Teamcenter NX sessions too. There is no Out-of-the-box option to save the bookmark file in Teamcenter directly. But there is no reason that one could not import the bookmark file to Teamcenter and define a TC tool that passes the file to %UGII_BASE_DIR%\ugii\ugs_router.exe -ugm <file_name> to open the bookmark in NX.

It is designed to be able to be used from windows explorer to drag/drop on the running NX session, double click in windows explorer, e-mail to another user etc.

2) The bookmark file will not load files that had been deleted from the modified assembly. The added components may be immediately displayed in some cases (first tier components) (depending on load options) or may require the update structure (MB3) operation on the sub assembly or expanding the sub assembly in the Assembly Navigator (depending on the update structure on expand preference) or loading the sub assembly. Sorry for the long winded "yes" (but not necessarily immediately) answer.

Hopefully this is helpful,

Joe

 

[DLH81]

Thank you, those answers were helpful.

I have another question about bookmarks. I have saved a few bookmarks to try playing with them and to see how they work. I noticed that the plmxml file that saves to my local drive has a file size of around 6MB (for my assembly). What is the significance of this file size? I saved another bookmark of the same assembly but without any of the fasteners included and it was around 3.5MB. Does this really indicate that fasteners are making up almost half of the assembly? Obviously the real assembly size is much greater than 3.5MB or 6MB so I'm just wondering what, if any significance those numbers have.