PMI model data help.

[wmalan]

Anyone using PMI for GD&T features in NX? We have a customer that's asking if we can work with PMI data exclusively. I'm waiting for an answer from the engineer there about what's required here. I have a file that clearly shows the PMI features on the tree but I can't display the GD&T values on the model. We have the plain-jane NX6 Adavanced Manufacturing. Do I need an additional plugin?

Back in my Catia days, you'd just turn on the attributes of the tree and voila! Not so fast here.

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Bill

 

[ewh]

Remember that PMI is view dependent.

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

 

[wmalan]

ewh

Aha! I found they created some views pmi_top pmi_side, etc...
I then "Replaced" the view to those and they show up. What threw me was under "Preferences/PMI" I checked "Display in all views" which didn't show them still. But yes, I needed to Replace the view with theirs.

Thanks!
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Bill

 

[JohnRBaker]

I think that 'preference' only effects any NEW PMI objects created. It has no effect on anything which already exists, and if you think about it a minute, I suspect that is the behavior that users would expect. Besides, we are trying to make Preferences behave as options for 'future behavior' of new objects rather than something which edits or 'resets' the options which controlled the behavior of legacy objects.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

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[wmalan]

John,

Yes, it now makes sense that the preference check for all views should be for creating new objects.

Personally as an ME/NC programmer, I love having the GD&T embedded in the part model. The down side (if there is one) is getting all that data into man-readable paper for the different processes along the shop floor and outside vendors. Unfortunately that will fall squarely on my shoulders...

It does make a good argument to get folks using the NX viewer but that will take a bit of training (and some licenses) which is hard to do at a small shop.

The PMI is cool stuff though. It brings us a bit closer to the "paperless manufacturing" I was promised back in 1980! <g>

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Bill