NXOpen for Inserting Component into an Assembly

[EngProgrammer]

Dear Forum,

I am looking for the best approach for developing an NXOpen app for inserting a component into an assembly and assigning mating conditions to that component. I journalled the activity and the journal has a lot of stuff in there. I was wondering if someone has something that I could start with rather than modifying the journal.

Thanks

 

[daluigi]

It is true that journaling produces a lot of redundant code but it is worth it going thru the results and refining the code until you get what you need.
Adding components is one easy thing but when you start willing to constraint them into different levels of assemblies it can take a while before you get there. At that point, assigning names to geometry (faces and edges) upfront is the real key to play with.
The perfect illustration can be found here:
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Hang in there...

 

[EngProgrammer]

Hello daluigi,

Did you write that application in the youtube link? Do you know who wrote it? Are they willing to give/sell the source code to the app?

Thank you for the link. It's an awesome example of NX customization. If only people knew the level of automation possible within NX. These custom apps take a lot of effort to build an enterprise custom NX automation application. Depending on the size and the complexity it takes years and $100,000's to create these custom app. I know there are a couple of specialized consulting companies, they will come to your company and work with your designers/engineers, write specs (because they don't know your specific process), then go away and write a custom NX application for your company. These consulting companies may know NXOpen and Knowledge Fusion but they don't know a specific company's IP / design process and they have to learn that before writing any code or specs.