How can I make standard holes easier?

[borosr]

Hello!

I’m a Mold Designer from Hungary.
I’m using NX4 and NX5.

I have to make a lot of holes every day (Simple, Counterbore, Countersink) ... I stay a lot of time to complete all fields every time.
So, I would like to make these standard holes easier, with drop-down menus or anything. (For example: I can drop down the “normal metric menu” and I can choose the Counterhole of the M8 screw.).

I made it with macros, but they don’t work well every time …it’s terrible.

Has anybody a good idea?
If I write the standard sizes in a spreadsheet, can I call them in easily? How?

Thank you the answers!


Róbert Boros
Mechanical Engineer
Injection Mold Designer
Hungary

http://www.bausch.hu

 

[4mranch1]

You could try using User Defined Features and set up a library of your standard holes.

Gary Ashby
Designer

 

[JohnRBaker]

Also you may wish to wait until UGS NX 5.0.2.x (October, 2007) before you put a lot of effort into UDF's or other customizations since there will be a new 'Hole Wizard' introduced with that release (this will be part of the normal Feature Modeling module and will eventually replace the current 'simple' hole feature function now in NX).


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/ugs

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

 

[borosr]

Gary Ashby and John R. Baker!

Thank you very much for your help!
I didn't know the UDF, but I tried it.
I think it is very helpful.
I will use it in NX4 and I'm waiting the UGS NX 5.0.2.x.

Have a nice day!



Róbert Boros
Mechanical Engineer
Injection Mold Designer
Hungary

http://www.bausch.hu

 

[cperry61]

Hummm. NX 5.0.2.x sounds good.

I like solidworks' hole wizard. I hope this will be similar

I haven't used this but it looks good.

http://www.sea4ug.com/HPE.htm

 

[ugsoft]

To eng-tips UG users community ,

For creation of Hole Features , in an structured way , we have developed an utility : make_standart_hole

It is a freeware program and available in

http://www.ugsoftstore.com/download.asp

Please , sign in as a member and download from Applications section ...

Current version runs under NX4 ... Although we did not test it for NX2 and NX3 , you should be able to run the utility with previous versions (NX2,NX3) also ...

basically , the utility uses dialogs for allowing user to select hole type , followed by selection of a face where the holes will be created and lastly the point selection dialog to set the center of holes...

Please readme.txt for installation guides ... and *.dat files for customizing the utility for your own requirements.


Regards ,

Karl Oppenheimer

http://www.ugsoftstore.com