The top setting on my Assembly Load

[jerry1423]

The top setting on my Assembly Load Options is set to As Saved
I opened up the assembly and the parts are not located where they were saved, so they were not loaded.
Is there a way to find the "saved" location of the file in an assembly that was not loaded ?

I am on NX7.5

 

[vrishraj]

Try this,
Information - Assemblies - List Components, it will list the original path where your file saved.

Raj
NX 7.5

 

[JohnRBaker]

Actually this will only show the paths for components which are loaded. I'm not aware, outside of Teamcenter, of being able to determine the path of an unloaded component using any of the interactive info sort of functions.

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[vrishraj]

John,

Actually it will show the unloaded component part saved path also, I tried by deleting some of the components from the existing assembly.

Raj
NX 7.5

 

[cowski]

If you want to know where the assembly thinks the file should be, you can use the command line utility ugpc.exe along with the -a switch (this can be found in the UGII directory).

If you are looking for the current location of the parts, I'd suggest using a desktop search tool.

A few years ago, I wrote a script that used ugpc to list the as saved assembly location. If the file did not exist there it would search through some user defined directories; if/when the part was found it used ug_edit_part_names to update the assembly to point to the correct component part file location. Perhaps I should put this in my queue of "projects to develop further".

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[jerry1423]

Thank you for your replies.
We recently switched to WINDOWS7 and the search tool is terrible on there.

 

[cowski]

WINDOWS7 and the search tool is terrible on there

Initially, I hated it; still don't like it, but it is growing on me bit by bit. At least they provide a link to start the "search companion" which will open an XP style search window.

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[wackolacko]

Same as cowski...I initially didn't like it but do a few google searches and there are lots of quick tips and tutorials on using Windows7 search. Now that I know how to use it....it is awesome.

John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1

 

[JohnRBaker]

For doing VERY FAST file searches with Windows 7 this is the 3rd-party utility that I've been using:

http://www.voidtools.com/

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[JohnRBaker]

Raj, I'm not sure what you're doing but I don't see the path of any unloaded component when I do an Information -> Assemblies -> List Components.

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[cowski]

John,
I just opened an assembly with the "structure only" option and tried out vrishraj's suggestion. If I scroll all the way to the right in the resulting information window, there is a "directory" column that lists the component's directory. I have a few in my list that are empty and when I try to load the component, it cannot be found with my current load options.

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[JohnRBaker]

I'm sorry, but if I move a few Components from where they were when I last saved an Assembly and then Open that Assembly after setting the Assembly Load Options so that the Part Version option is set to 'As Saved' and the Scope is set to 'Structure Only' and then I run a...

Information -> Assemblies -> List Components

...this is what I get as a result:

Note that this was done using NX 7.5, but I've also checked NX 8.5 and nothing has changed.

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