Table drawings, are they still neccesary?

[NutAce]

Hello All,

Question to all out there. Are you, in your company, still using table drawings?

With Table drawings I am talking about a group of items (having identical 3D geometry) which share the same generic drawing where the main dimensions are shown as variables.
For each individual item you can find the value of those variables in a table which is on thjis generic Drawing.

If you are still using this, how have you solved it?

Main purpose of this is, that when one of the main dimensions changes I do not need to change it 20 times when thos items have their own individual drawings.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[JNieman]

I use it frequently. It's a time saver for me and for manufacturers. Less documents to keep track of. Faster to update, since updating one will update all. Usually there are only one or few dimensions that are variable, and the remainder are the same. Sometimes, though, for simple parts like step pins or punch tips, the entire part is variables with a table.

I don't know what there is "to solve". What is the problem with it?

 

[NutAce]

Hi J,

I would like to know your way of working...
The Model used for the generic Drawing..is that one of the actual models? or is it a dummy model?
Are you using partfamilies for the other items?

How do you start such a Table drawing and connect the "members"?

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[Dave K]

We use part families, and display the table data on the drawing using this method (webkey needed to access):

https://solutions.industrysoftware....=nx&p=2&file_type=html&i=001-6370691&k=7&o=20

-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10

 

[NutAce]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply. The members of those partfamilies. Are they sent to ERP? (Customers, manufacturer etc ) If so, how do you make sure the individual members have the drawing attached?

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[Dave K]

Ronald, everything is done in-house for these parts.

-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10