JNieman
Aerospace
- Mar 26, 2014
- 1,128
New member here. 'Engineer' at a Precision Manufacturing Job Shop focusing on tool&die, aerospace, defense, medical, and a whole lot of stuff that are either too hard or too much of a pain for other manufacturers to handle.
I'm a bit green at NX, we're using NX8.0, soon to upgrade to NX9, I hear. I have a pretty wide background in different CAD software, 'traditional' and parametric, and reached a pretty extensive 'mastery' level in some packages. However, I'm self-teaching NX on-the-fly.
I'm trying to continue getting better, faster, smarter, more automated with my die design assemblies, and I'm finding the "top-down" assembly approach difficult. It's what's most intuitive to me, as well, unfortunately. It makes sense to start with a die set, start placing die blocks and punches and not the other way around. I usually have a die design in mind before I start modeling.
Anyways, a lot of the guides/tutorials/lessons I am able to search up via google-fu are for older versions of UG/NX, I believe, as I cannot find "ug_english.def" anywhere, and it seems imperative to ensure "Assemblies_AllowInterpart" is set to "yes" in UG_english.def.... as it is, I don't believe I can create new component parts referencing existing geometry of OTHER component parts in an assembly. It's possible I'm going about this incorrectly so I'm open to correction.
Also, if there's a decent "rule of thumb" or "reference" for which parameters are in which .def file, and where (using default installation directories obviously) I'd love to know. It's teach me to fish for myself, instead of giving me a fish, and I've spent the last half hour scouring my hard drive for the appropriate file, already, to no avail.
Thank you very much.
I'm a bit green at NX, we're using NX8.0, soon to upgrade to NX9, I hear. I have a pretty wide background in different CAD software, 'traditional' and parametric, and reached a pretty extensive 'mastery' level in some packages. However, I'm self-teaching NX on-the-fly.
I'm trying to continue getting better, faster, smarter, more automated with my die design assemblies, and I'm finding the "top-down" assembly approach difficult. It's what's most intuitive to me, as well, unfortunately. It makes sense to start with a die set, start placing die blocks and punches and not the other way around. I usually have a die design in mind before I start modeling.
Anyways, a lot of the guides/tutorials/lessons I am able to search up via google-fu are for older versions of UG/NX, I believe, as I cannot find "ug_english.def" anywhere, and it seems imperative to ensure "Assemblies_AllowInterpart" is set to "yes" in UG_english.def.... as it is, I don't believe I can create new component parts referencing existing geometry of OTHER component parts in an assembly. It's possible I'm going about this incorrectly so I'm open to correction.
Also, if there's a decent "rule of thumb" or "reference" for which parameters are in which .def file, and where (using default installation directories obviously) I'd love to know. It's teach me to fish for myself, instead of giving me a fish, and I've spent the last half hour scouring my hard drive for the appropriate file, already, to no avail.
Thank you very much.