Show toplevel SCYC's only in large assembly.

[VW181]

Hello,
Is there a way to show only all the SCYS's of the sub-assemblys directly placed in the top level assembly?
If i choose show "Coordinate Systems" in "Show and Hide" i get hundreds coordinate systems in my assembly. All coordinate systems of all parts many levels deep are shown. I loose the overview of all coordinate systems and the computer becomes very slow.
I only want to see the CSYS of the sub assemblys and/or parts directly placed in the assembly i'm working in.

Hopefully someone has a solution.
Thanks in advance.


Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)

 

[KhimaniMohiki]

Make sure all the sub assemblies are set to Entire Part reference set with their children set to MODEL, then when you show all co-ordinate systems only those within the entire part reference stes will be visible.

Alternativly you could control them with layers, move all your sub-assembly CSYS to layer 1 and all child part CSYS to layer 2 for example then only those on layer 1 will be visible

Khimani Mohiki
Design Engineer - Aston Martin
NX8.5

 

[VW181]

Thank you for your answer.
But both ways are very time consuming. And another problem I have with both ways is that a lot of parts and (sub)assembly's are "read only", so i can't change layers or change the reference sets.
It would be a nice option if there was a possibility to choose till how deep you want to see the coordinate systems.


Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)

 

[KhimaniMohiki]

You can move the unwanted CSYS to layers relative to the top level (displayed) assembly only and not affect the read-only parts, although without a macro this would still require selecting them all manually.

Khimani Mohiki
Design Engineer - Aston Martin
NX8.5

 

[Toost]

The selection isn't that difficult if you before selecting hide and show the correct components in the assembly navigator.
i.e drag-select all sub components , then tick the box in the navigator to hide them. select all the remaining CSYS and move to a specific layer.
Reverse Hide/ Show all, select all CSYS and move to a different layer.


Regards,
Tomas

 

[VW181]

Thanks for the answers.
I will try it, but i still find it a devious way to do it.

Using NX 8.0 and Teamcenter 8 on Windows 7 (64)