turning off "assign material" option when opening .JT's in NX7

[bru82]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know where the toggle is (I'm assuming there is one?) to turn off the option to assign material to a .JT file? when opening large assy's, it takes a long time to accept the generic material that NX selects as a replacement.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[JohnRBaker]

When exactly is NX asking you for a 'Material'? Are you working in Teamcenter?

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[bru82]

Hi John,

I am working in Teamcenter. When I open a .JT assy, it promts me (during the load process) to assign a material in the "Part Material Selection" pop-up dialog.

The .JT's were created from Ideas, so I'm assuming that NX is looking to subsitute material descriptions that are not available in its library?

I've uploaded a screen shot of the dialog.

thanks!

 

[JohnRBaker]

What you might have here is a Teamcenter attribute which has been designated as being 'required' therefore when you open the part in NX, Teamcenter is asking that NX assign a material. If this is the case, changing the characteristic of the Teamcenter attribute (making it optional and not mandatory) might give you what you're looking for.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

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

 

[bru82]

If it is a TCe setting, do you think it is possible to turn the function off for .JT's only? In other words, would we lose the ability to assign materials in general, or only to .JT's?

Thanks for you quick replies. I will investigate the TCe avenue (although I'm sure the IT guys have those options "hidden" for the users to toggle).

 

[JohnRBaker]

It's not that you can't assign the material, just that you would have to do it manually, but then it will be when and if you needed to do it, not being forced to do it in the middle of opening a large assembly, particularly if you're not really concerned about material assignments at that moment.

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

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