How to show in model that parts in assembly are welded? NX7.5 soon will be NX 10 2

[IvanNX]

How to show in assembly model that parts in assembly are welded?
1. make sub-assembly,
1. Make wave link of welded components,
2. Make "Bond" constrain between components,
4. Combination of options above?
5. ?

I am not aware how it works in NX 10 so I would appreciate info for NX 10 too, as I have to plan how to do it in future.

 

[NutAce]

I would suggest to have a look at the weld assistant. It sounds like this is just what you are looking for...

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

 

[sammcc]

special license required for weldments....

 

[IvanNX]

Sorry I did not mention that we do not have licence for weld assistant, that is why I have to use workaround, and why I am asking for help.

 

[NutAce]

[ol 1]
[li]Create Weld assembly[/li]
[li]Wave-link or Promote components to toplevel Weld assembly[/li]
[li]Unite Welded bodies[/li]
[li]Use edge from unite to create 3D (Sweep of Weld section) of weld..( for showing Weldgeometry on Drawing and perhaps weight management)[/li]
[li]Create Weld Reference set to hold Linked bodies[/li]
[li]In context of Weld Assembly set referencesets for components to empty (This will leave you with linked bodies only which imporves loadingspeed of your drawing)[/li]
[li]Create Drawing for Weld Assy using the Weld reference set[/li]
[/ol]

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

 

[IvanNX]

Thank you nutace!