Reuse Library components in assembly "not found"

[Kasey7]

Hola,

Lately I've been designing more of our tooling and fixturing in-context with great success. As a result I've been using washers, capscrews, dowels, etc, from the Reuse Library more and more to get an even more accurate model of what we will actually build. Nothing more satisfying than a complex fixture being made, without any surprises or rework, and functioning flawlessly during a first production run.

My problem is that some of the Reuse Library components become unavailable during later sessions. The weird thing is this isn't affecting all components. My capscrews show up no problem, but my setscrews, and dowels will not.
Assembly Load Options is set to "As Saved". Despite that, when I try to display a "greyed-out" component in the Assembly Navigator I'm told "Failed to find using current search options, part left unloaded", then, "This component cannot be made visible. It is in an excluded reference set."
Right-clicking the greyed-out component I have no sign of "Replace Reference Set".

How can I fix this, and why do different components from the library behave differently?

I should point out I'm on NX 7.0.0.9 (NX 7.5.2.5 is on the way ), and I'm fairly sure I added components from the library the same way each time; dragging them from the Member Select window onto the feature where it would be used (ex. a counterbore), letting NX correctly position and orient the component. All I was doing at that point was defining the component length and sometimes the thread pitch.

 

[uwam2ie]

update to the lastest nx7.1.2 patches MR +MP
that had worked for me

 

[looslib]

7.0.0.9 is the initial release of NX7 and you should update to the latest MR. As a rule I never put an initial release of any software into a production environment.


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[Kasey7]

Ugh. Now all my fasteners are becoming unavailable, or rather "excluded reference set"s.

I've DL'd NX 7.5.2.5, but we recently decided to upgrade our current OS Win 7 to 64-bit Win 7, so we're holding off upgrading from NX 7. I'll have to DL the 64-bit NX 7.5.2.5 too. I hope we upgrade before the new year. >.<

What could have caused this to be happening now? I've been using fasteners in assmeblies for quite awhile without any problems.
Will NX 7.5 remedy this outright, or will I have to "re-load" all the fasteners then re-save the assemblies?

 

[Kasey7]

We finally started using 7.5.2.5. A recent change to 64-bit OS' from 32-bit OS' slowed down the process a bit.

Sadly, the components from the re-use libraries still will not show up in my assemblies after successfully being added and constrained.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Are you sure that you have your Load Options set so that the search lists includes the folder(s) which are the repositories for the members of your standard parts libraries?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[Kasey7]

Hi John,
I've tried all three of the Asembly Load Options: From Folder, As Saved, & From Search Folders.
Typically I've been using As Saved. Setting it back to From Folder allowed some re-use components to open, but not others. Weird.

The Re-Use Library was installed natively and is not used in a Teamcenter environment. Could this be causing the problem? I don't remember having this problem with NX 6 though. However to be fair, I don't think I used the library much before Siemens made the full library available for free a little over a year ago.

 

[JohnRBaker]

When you use an item from the reuse library, unless explicitly saved with your assembly, the family member created is saved in a common folder which you will need to include in your search list.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[Kasey7]

Good freaking grief! I finally figured it out.
Somewhere around August last year, everyone lost administrative privileges to their local directories C:\Program Files\Common Files\UGS\Reuse Library\.
That's why some components worked, and some didn't. Fasteners I had used in other assemblies before August were saved within the directory. Whereas ones that I added that were no already in there, wouldn't show. Hence the errors I was getting.
Thanks John for giving me the clue regarding members being saved to the common folder. Everything seems to work fine now.
Now... why/how were the administrative privileges modified last August in the first place?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Now... why/how were the administrative privileges modified last August in the first place?

I'm sorry, but you're on your own for that one ;-)

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.