Excel error when creating more than 100 parts in family table

[lorenolepi]

Currently I'm creating a ton of standard hardware to add to the machinery/reuse libary. I have found that everytime I try to create 100+ parts at the same time from the family table I recieve an Excel Automation Com Error after it creates a handful of parts. I had this problem back in the NX2/NX4 days as well at a different company. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening? The only thing I found to work is to only grab about 50 parts at a clip.. but this isn't cool when dealing with a table with over 700 parts.
~LB

 

[JohnRBaker]

I would contact GTAC since this is either a problem with Excel or with the Part Family function. If it's an NX problem, GTAC will help you submit a PR so that we can get this limitation removed.

But I have to ask, why are you creating all these parts at the same time? The way Part Families works is that you can create them on the fly when needed and that way you don't fill-up your discks with hundreds of obscure fasteners in sizes which no one may ever use.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[lorenolepi]

John,
Have I ever told you that your my hero? You always make the effort to answer my NX questions and I appreciate it!

There are a couple of reasons why I'm creating these parts but they all relate back to Teamcenter.

1) We run in a group based Teamcenter enviornment and these are standard parts, so we want only the standard libriarian group to own the files. Every group will be using them and if they created them on the fly then they would be owned by different groups

2)Batch release (we don't want anyone messing with the files after they have be used in assemblies)

3) We have also have had some issues with creating parts on the fly with the reuse libary parts. What was happening was that a user would insert a reusable part that hadn't been created into an assembly --> the user would then change the reusable part to a different size prior to saving --> then the user would then save the part. For some reason in Teamcenter the item and item revesion of the first reusable part would be created but no datasets (ugmaster)got created but it did create everything for the actual reusable part being used ... so when trying to use the first reusable part in another assembly a dialog box similar to the File-New dialog box appears and want to know what kind of model template part you would like to use and then it errors out.

One thing I did notice was that after swaping out the reuasable componets that sometimes upon closing the 1st component was listed in the selected parts dialog list of parts to close even though it was swaped out for another part and never truely created.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, Teamcenter can offer (or force you to use) alternative workflows when dealing with family table parts.

Per you last comment; Yes, but that part did exist 'virtually', at least at that instant in time.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

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

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.