Updates entire top assembly after doing a sketch

[Cid1979]

Why does my NX seem to update everthing after I finish a sketch, is there a preference I am not seeing, it's updating things that has nothing to do with the part I am sketching on, is there a setting in customer default that i'm not aware of, any help would be great I am running NX8.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Where is the sketch located, in the top level assembly or one of the components in the assembly?

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[Cid1979]

In one of the components in the assembly, it just cycles throughs all the parts and updates them, when even the part I am working in has no ties to the other parts.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Are you implying that this model (assembly) did NOT behave this way prior to NX 8.0?

Note that I used an Assembly that I have which goes several levels deep and in fact includes WAVE-linked parts and no matter at what level I edit a sketch, be it one, two, three even four levels below top level Assembly, the only parts which update as a result are the ones that your would expect, the edited part, and if there are WAVE-linked 'children', they update as well, but that's all. Note that I tested this with loading the assembly with both 'Partial Loading' ON and OFF, as well as 'Load Interpart Data' (all levels), and there was no differences.

Question: has all of the parts in this Assembly model been updated to NX 8.0 using the 'refile' utility? Have you opened the Assembly and then done a 'Save All'?

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[Cid1979]

I believe everything is updated to NX 8.0, but if not how do you use the refile utility tool?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Before we start down the 'refile' path, try doing a...

Information -> Part -> Loaded Parts

...while you have your assembly loaded and check to see if all your parts have listed as being NX 8.0. If there's only a few which are not, you could simply set them to be the work part and then hit the Save button.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
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.