NX Tip of the Week - May 30, 2014

NX - Finding Assembly Constraints Associated to a Particular Component

• We can determine if a part is Fully Constrained, Partially Constrained, or Unconstrained by looking at the Position column in the Assembly Navigator:

• You can see all the Assembly Constraints under the Constraints area. However, this list is all of the constraints in the assembly. The more components, the more constraints:

• I like to use the Dependencies group to see my constraints associated with a particular component. Make sure you also turn on the Detailed View button. This will allow you to select a particular component and see only the constraints associated to it: 

• If you go and edit or create Assembly Constraints, you can click the back arrow to get back to the previous window:

• In NX 8.0, the Constraint Navigator was added:

• You can sort/group the Constraints in different ways. For our discussion here, choose Group by Components:

• I can now select the component in question and branch open to see the Assembly Constraints in question:

• To summarize, we can use the Constraint Navigator starting with NX 8, to help find Assembly Constraints associated with a particular part.  You can also branch open the Dependencies group and select Detailed View to see those constraints. 

Click HERE to watch this demonstrated in the video:

Brandon Carter
Senior Application Engineer
Ally PLM Solutions, Inc

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Solid Edge Tip of the Week - May 23, 2014

Solid Edge - Create and Verify Motion with Solid Edge Assembly Tools

Did you know Solid Edge Assembly has many tools to create and verify motion? Ally PLM Application Engineer, Matt Johnson, hosted a break out session at Solid Edge University 2014 to review these tools in detail. 

For example, you can use a Visual Basic Function to drive Solid Edge Assembly Motion.  From the Solid Edge Variable Table, you can add a Visual Basic Function. This can be an actual Function or a Sub Routine. Of particular interest, in the assembly is the ability to use a Sub Routine to edit multiple variables at one time and therefore emulate real motion occurring at a given time. Starting at 25:20 in the video, Matt discusses this topic in detail or to view his recorded session in it's entirety, click HERE.

Matt Johnson

Application Engineering Team

Ally PLM Solutions, Inc

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