Help Importing Part File without drafting wireframe

[Buckshott00]

Hello,

Running NX 7.5.2 Windows XP Pro 32 bit

I think this is an easy fix, but I'm not sure where it is. I am importing another NX 7.5 part file, but every time I do I get the drafting title block with it. What options do I have to change to import the actual part without the drafting wire frame.

Thanks

 

[cowski]

Rather than importing part A into part B (the display part), try exporting the entities of interest from part A (the display part) to part B.

For example, if you are just interested in getting 1 solid body (with parameters) into a new part go to File -> Export -> Part... choose the part to export to, the solid to export, and make sure the retain internal parameters and copy if referenced options are chosen. After you press OK and the magic happens, your chosen file will contain the desired solid body (along with all the entities used to create it).

 

[Buckshott00]

Thanks Cowski that worked. Any reason why pulling Part A into Part B results in dragging along the wireframe as well?

 

[DaSalo]

When you import a part you import every geometry object in it. The lines in your title block are geometry objects. Something like a drafting note or dimension is not a geometry object. So when you import your part you get all of the lines that are in it, including the lines that were drawn to create your title block.

When you export a part, as Cowski suggested, you have the option to choose which objects you want to export and which you don't. You also have the option of choosing whether or not the geometry that you export will be parametric or "dumb" and to what extent.

So import a part if you want it ALL. Export a part into an existing file if you want the flexibility to choose.

 

[Buckshott00]

Thanks DaSalo! It just seems odd that you don't have the same functionality on import of another NX file

 

[ewh]

No more odd to many than creating the drawing in the same file as the model.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - [small]Robert Hunter[/small]

 

[looslib]

Showing your age, ewh!
Or maybe just your longevity with using UG/NX.

In today's world, the master model approach is best for keeping the various aspects of the total design segregated.


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