NX Attributes - multiple components 1

[JT Smitty]

Hello,

I've been looking around and trying to watch videos and doing all sorts of research about attributes for parts designed in NX. My colleagues that use Catia have an automated template that will pull mass from their part bodies automatically, I have been looking to adopt this into NX. The issue that I am running into is that in NX, when I try to setup attributes the MassPropMass is looking at the mass of both bodies combined.

Quick background, I work for an automotive supplier that creates baffles for cars. The baffles are two components, a nylon carrier, and an expandable foam sealer. The nylon and sealer are two different materials that have two different densities.

I have been trying to automate part of the drawing where we reference the individual components masses. The only way I can think of right now to do this, would be to after the design work is done, breaking out the components, into their own part files/STP, creating and assembly file and using that assembly file to create the drawing. I was hoping that someone might know a little bit more than me about expressions/attributes and how to pull a single bodies mass attribute, not the whole part's mass.

Cheers,

-JT

 

[cowski]

Assign the appropriate material/density to each body then use the measure command (or measure body, depending on your NX version) with the associative option turned on. This will create expressions with the body weight that you can use to drive attribute values or reference directly (depending on your needs).

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[JT Smitty]

Thanks Cowski. Worked perfectly.