variable positioning

[Michel1978]

I would like to use variable positioning. This is what the help tells me:

To create a variable position (or override):
Select a component that is not a top-level component.
Choose Assemblies? Components? Reposition Components to bring up the Reposition Component dialog.
Choose the Options tab in the Reposition Component dialog.

But I don't have the repositioning option but move component instead.

How can I do this?

I use NX5.

 

[cowski]

1) Create a new arrangement at the assembly level.
Right-click the assembly in the Assembly Navigator Tool (ANT), choose 'Arrangements', 'Edit'. In this dialog you can create a new arrangment to use or copy an existing arrangment (useful if you already have an arrangment that you want to use as a base for a new arrangement). Make your desired arrangement the active arrangement.

2) Make sure the component properties allow it to be used in arrangements.
Right click the component(s) you want to move (in the ANT) and choose 'Properties'. On the 'Parameters' tab make sure the 'Individually positioned' option is chosen (it is not the default).

3) Move the component to the new position.
Use the 'move component' command to move the component(s) to the new position.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

 

[hudson888]

Couple of things if I read your question correctly then I'd agree with Cowski that you'd probably want to use arrangements. Repositioning non mated components allows that you might position it differently in different arrangements. There is a second level that you refer to overriding that allows for different mating conditions in different arrangements by making arrangement specific changes. If however you are using assembly constraints it will be slightly different again.

As for the documentation I think the terminology changes depending on whether you have "mating conditions" or assembly constraints" enabled in your customer defaults. The old command "reposition component" is simply renamed "move component". In NX-6 things actually change more dramatically.

They are quite equivalent in NX-5 until you get into mated/constrained arrangement specific changes. The documentation may just have been a little slow in catching up. You might get more out of the what's new guides in that case.

Best Regards

Hudson

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