How do you check assigned materials in NX?

How do you check assigned materials in NX?

This tool can be found under Menu → Preferences → Mesh Collector Display (Figure 2, right). Material orientations and element normals can be checked on a mesh-by-mesh level by right-clicking on a mesh and selecting Check → Material orientations or Check → Element normals.

How do you add attributes in NX?

If all you want to do is to add Part Attributes on-the-fly, simply go to…

1. File -> Properties -> Attributes.
2. File -> Utilities -> Attribute Templates…
3. File -> Properties -> Attributes.

How do you do a spreadsheet in NX?

1. Choose Tools tab→Utilities group→Expressions.
2. In the Expressions dialog box, in the Name box, type “thickness”.
3. Click Functions.
4. In the Insert Function dialog box, from the Or Choose a Category list, select spreadsheet.
5. From the list of functions, select ug_cell_read.
6. Click OK.

How do I export NX from BOM to excel?

How can I export them as excel? U can export BOM using Tools->Export->Objects to Excel from either Structure Manager or Manufacturing Process Planner modules.

How do you remove materials from the body in NX?

In NX11 the icons have been removed. Select “Menu > Tools > Materials > Manage Materials”. You can either use the default “Library Materials” or select the Library Materials pull down and choose “Local Materials”. Right click the material with the green check mark that you want to unassign and choose “Remove Usages”.

How do I change part material in NX?

Assign a material to a body

1. Whit part displayed, click Material Properties .
2. Select the body to which you want to apply the material.
3. In the Assign Material dialog box, select a material from the Materials list.
4. Click Apply.

What are attributes in NX?

An attribute is a persistant way to store non-geometric data (i.e. not a point or curve or solid or feature). Attributes can be referenced in expressions and (in drafting) in notes/labels/other drafting text (including parts lists, etc.) Some can be used to affect which parts in an assembly are shown on the parts list.

How do you scale a drawing in NX?

Or if you want to scale a sketch in Siemens NX sketching, you need to in the mode of editing it like above. Click on ‘Scale Curve’ command as shown by orange arrow above. After entering into the ‘Scale Curve’ command, select the curves to be scaled as shown by blue arrow above.

Is the numeric portion of the NX part list unreliable?

The numeric portion relates to the object number and you’re right it is unreliable for use with a template. The part attributes that I mentioned earlier that are pre-assigned and start with a $ sign, have been expanded from NX-4 to NX-5 so you may find something useful as a work around in there.

How to insert column in NX part list?

So I’ll just take you through adding a column and using an attribute from your components. You start by selecting a column and with the right mouse button you should find Insert>Columns to the Left, or Columns to the right on the pop-up menu.

Are there sample drawing templates shipped with NX?

There are sample drawing templates shipped with NX. They are set up to work as Palletes so if you search for *.pax in the installation directories you can find metric_drawing_templates.pax or english_drawing_templates.pax.