Where are the folders and files located that populate the Reuse Library? Currently there are folders that I can see but no part files within those folders.
If you got those 5 year old hardware libraries from us (as in Siemens) then they were probably my old 'fastener library' which I used to give away prior to the development of our 'reuse' strategy.
I know this won't really help you any since the file names have all been changed, but I 'donated' my entire fastener library to the reuse team and they used most of my work as the foundation for the current libraries when and where there was a match. If nothing else, my files acted as a prototype for what we have now with many of the original ideas preserved in the new content.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
They work great John but I did see the sense of importing a whole new set of fasteners and having 2 set of fasteners in our system. I worked with Stewart Bresler and we converted all of our exsisting fasteners to Reuse.
The Library is great for new users of NX and need fastner but for all the long time exsisting customer that had fasteners from years ago it doesn't help down loading the new ones.
I believe there are some enhancements to the new fasteners that might make them worth switching to. The detailed threads are controlled by an expression instead of a seperate reference set for a solid body. The new fasteners should take up less memory. I have a question about how the NX integration to SAP PLM is working out for you. Does SAP PLM have a library that you can manage the unique fastener parts that you instantiate from Reuse Library? Or are you managing your fastener library entirely on a native network folder?
Actually controlling the detailed threads using an Expression was one of the things that the reuse group learned from MY original fastener library as that's the way I had always done it. The only thing which was obsoleted was the fact that I supplied an alternative simplified body (with its own Reference Set) whereas now since NX 5.0 with the level-of-details in the JT representations there is little need something like that. And now with the advent of NX 7.5 and the use of 'full-time' lightweight representations, we no longer even need a separate lightweight (faceted) Reference Set.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
