create faceted body

[vitulin]

Hi,

I am using NX 4 and I would like to know, how to automaticaly create a faceted body and put it into reference set automaticaly-using macro or similar..
thanks
V.

 

[JohnRBaker]

It much easier than you think.

Just go to Customer Defaults -> Assemblies -> Site Standards and set the default Reference Set names for BOTH the 'Model' and the 'Lightweight' (i.e. Faceted) Reference Sets.

What will happen is that when you Save your part files, the system will automatically create the 'Model' Reference Set, based on the rules as defined in Customer Defaults. And since you have also defined the name of the 'Lightweight' Reference Set, the system will automatically populate it with the appropriate facetted bodies for each solid/sheet body included in the 'Model' Reference Set.

That's it, you're done.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

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[hudson888]

Also.
You'll need an Advanced Assemblies License to get it to work.

Best regards

Hudson

 

[vitulin]

Thank you,
it works fine. I have tried it and it works also without advanced assemblies licence. The only thing is, that when you set the filter to faceted body, it wont select anything. But the lightweight representation was created.

This leads me to another question. How does UG work with customer defaults settings? For example if we all use UG installed on a server, is it necessary to change customer defaults on every computer separately?

 

[JohnRBaker]

In the context of the part file itself, there is no object that you can select that represents the facetted Body created from the solid/sheet bodies in the part file. They are only accessable when that part file is added to an assembly and the 'Lighweight' Reference Set is used. Only then will you ever actually see and be able to select the Facetted body(s).

As for your customer default file, no you can create one common one and then set-up an environment varible on each stations point to a single file either on one of the workstations or on you server.

The variable for the 'User' version of enviroment vaiable is:

set UGII_USER_DIR=<set to the path to the default file>

You can also set-up 'Group' and 'Site' paths as well which will allow you to set and lock certain Customer Default settings so that indiviual users can't change them.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

 

[vitulin]

Will this affect also the user layouts settings? The icons etc.?

Thanks
V.

 

[hudson888]

V,

There are reams of posts on this subject in this forum. The short version is that what John describes points you at a local user default file, the system reads that file first, and whatever defaults it sees first it sets first and they persist. Therefore if you only need to set a few user specific defaults the remainder will revet to the main system customer defaults, and the answer to your question should be NO.

Best Regards

Hudson

P.S. don't worry I'm sure I'll get corrected by about forty posts if I have any scintilla of the above wrong.