Way to easily roll back the part navigator

[aluminum2]

In manufacturing it helps to create our solid models in order of how we machine them. If we want to reorder sequences or add a few holes in some location, it would really help if we had a rollback feature to see the model at an earlier operation. I know you can edit a feature with roll back, but can you add a feature with a roll back function?

Right now to add something I usually start suppression features until I see the model at an earlier state. Its just a lot of clicking of the mouse. I am hoping there is an easier way.

 

[jerry1423]

Do you know about: ?
Make Current Feature
Feature Playback

 

[jerry1423]

What version of NX are you on?

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can also use something called 'Feature Playback' where you can start from the beginning and 'playback' the model one feature at a time until you reach where you wish to 'insert' the new feature.

Prior to NX 6.0 you could launch this by going to...

Edit -> Feature -> Playback...

...and then control the progress of the playback from a dialog with some additional options for pausing and performing modeling or editing operations at the point that you were at in the playback.

Starting with NX 6.0 we introduced a 'Feature Replay' toolbar which included the typical VCR-like controls to 'rewind' the model, and then to play it back either one step at a time or as one operation. There is also an option to run a playback until it encounters a Boolean operation which can be used as a sort of 'breakpoint' since these are often where major changes to a models appearance takes place. Anyway, at any point during this 'playback' you can edit an existing feature or add additional ones and then continue the 'playback'.

Also don't forget that you can, from the Part Navigator, 'drag & drop' features backwards or forwards in the model tree as long as you don't try to place a feature ahead of something which it references (i.e. you can't move a Blend to a point in the model before the edge that is being blended existed).

Anyway, look at the 'Playback' tools and see if this provides you the capabilities that you were looking for.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[ingallspw]

If you right click in the history you can select "Make Current Feature"

Play back works too but it sounds like you know where to stop.

Naming your steps (or features) can help direct you or the person looking at the model as well. (EG: Counter Sink, Taper, Etc)

 

[joycejo]

If the features are in the right order you can extract an associative copy, or linked body if your using master model, and control where in the timestamp order the extracted body is. This will give you models at different stages of the manufacturing process, porovided the features were created in the the right sequence to reflect the mfg process.



John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6 & NX7.5