[Discussion] Is it possible to have a replicate function in NX?

[F. S. Farimani]

Following this post, I am wondering if it is possible to have a "replicate" button in NX?
Sadly UG/NX has been passed over to so many different companies, and SIEMENS PLM deprecates functionalities quite often. As a result we end up with some designs containing deprecated features that are editable, but the UI is not accessible directly. In other words when one double clicks on the feature in the Part Navigator a GUI comes up allowing you to edit the feature's properties. So the function for the GUI panel should be still available. But there is no direct command to create that feature again.
There are plenty of programing interfaces in NX, though I am mostly interested in the NXOpen Python interface. It would be great if we could create a replicate button, where the user could select any feature in the Part Navigator and then the processes and the GUIs that would be used to create that feature would be invoked. For example, in this case, one could click on the SM Flange feature, and the GUI(s) to create a new one would be brought up letting the user to select the edge and the direction and other parameters again to replicate a new SM Flange.

 

[jerry1423]

Many types of features can be simply copied and pasted.
When pasting the feature you will be instructed to pick new references, the size variables can be edited too.

Jerry J.
UGV5-NX1961

 

[F. S. Farimani]

When pasting the feature you will be instructed to pick new references, the size variables can be edited too.

sadly in this case that didn't work properly.

Lead Mechanical Engineer @ VDL ETG T&D / ASML

 

[Toost]

When Siemens replaces features, they are very cautious that the functionality that the old feature had shall exist in the replacement.
There has been and probably will be exceptions to this rule.
when they do this replacement, we can always raise IRs regarding lost functionality, they seem to take those seriously.


Regards,
Tomas

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