NX6 from drafting to modeling

[jerry1423]

When I go from drafting and into modeling my application stays in "drafting". I then have to toggle the modeling application to get into it.

Is there a way to go immediately into the modeling application, without manually toggling it, when I go out of the drawing and into the model?

 

[hudson888]

If by going into modelling you mean toggling the display sheet function which switches between the modelling and the drawing display and uses an icon that looks like a flashlight then that may explain you question.

The 3d environment that you access using that function allows you to manipulate certain elements of the model in 3d workspace for setting up drawing views and the like without consuming a modelling licence.

You can at any time simply swap between drafting and modelling by toggling the applications without first changing to the 3d workspace as described above. Maybe all you need to work on is setting up your icons or toolbars so that the right functions are accessible to you whenever you need them.

Either that or I'm making sense of your question where there otherwise is none unless you've happened upon a hitherto unseen bug.

Best Regards

Hudson

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[MickyV007]

I think i know what you mean Jerry. When working master model principe you want to keep your part in modelling app. and if you switch to the other window (the specification) you want it to directly go to drafting. Now you stay in the app. drafting or modeling each time you switch window. Our system admin has told me he could wright something for it but he never had time for it.
It's still in NX6 so maybey i'm going to make him do so if we switched to NX6 in a couple of months.

Best regards,

Michäël.

NX4.0.4.2 MP10 / TCE 9.1.3.8_build_0711 / NX6.0.2.8 / NX7.0.0.9

Belgium

 

[jerry1423]

Thanks for the reply Hudson, I am sorry that it seemed confusing, but I think you interpreted it correctly.
I am working in master model, and when I go to the model file I tend to do it thru the ANT, by clicking on the file, and making it the displayed part. When I get to the part I am still in "drafting".
I just thought of something as I am writing this ... I think my problem is that I have "display sheet" toggled off in the model file. If I did not have it toggled off the sheet would be displayed while I am still in drafting.
I guess it would be a nice NX enhancement to have the application switch to "modeling" when the "display sheet" is toggled off.

 

[cowski]

I think you will find that it doesn't matter if the "display sheet" is toggled on or off. Simply changing the displayed part doesn't tell NX to switch to a different application. While switching from drafing to modeling sounds logical, how would NX know you wanted modeling and not sheet metal or advanced simulation or shape studio?

 

[ewh]

Perhaps if it would default to the application the chosen part was last viewed in?

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

 

[cowski]

ewh,
Seems like that could be the next step since on opening a part NX6 can change to the application the file was saved in.

 

[jerry1423]

Yes cowski, that is a good idea.
I think I remember doing it that way in pre-V10 parts, but I could be wrong about that.

 

[hudson888]

What you're talking around somewhat confuses changing parts with changing applications although I realise that some users would like to have both occur simulataneously. On the upside the idea that certain parts require drafting only and others require modelling only doesn't really occur with NX. It is more flexible that that. On the downside there are a number of ways that applications can be licensed as well and in many cases when a modelling licence is released there isn't any guarantee that a drafting licence will be available. So whatever anyone writes to simulate the behaviour of other CAD systems might need to take on board some error handling for situations when this could prossible occur. It also probably explains why PLMS don't presume to do this for you.

Now in order to simulate that behaviour my best guess would be that you add to your templates attributes for the preferred application that you could use with a custom written program to change parts. It sounds like a fairly complex thing to want to do to me, and there may not even be any guarantee that it will work from one release to the next. Even knowing as I do that it can be inconvenient to have to manually change applications I would have to say that the time savings which such a customisation would yeild are moderate at best.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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