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    I-deas Drafting to NX

    Suugest talking with TEAM Engineering, they looked after our transfer of data to NX. Website www.team-eng.com
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    Helical Pinion Gear

    Hi All, After some assistance with modeling helical pinion gear profiles within NX6. Has anyone got any suggestions on how to model this profile? Should I be using law curves to achieve such a profile? Also goes anyone know of any gear generators website for NX? Thanks in advance.
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    ACROBAT PDF PRINTER IN UGS NX4

    Welcome to the world of SDI! Shocking plotting program, was in IDEAS and still is within NX! Check out www.m-quest.ch program called M-Plot. Supports all plotters including pdf, easy to install, plots the correct line weights and works every time! Someone at UGS please include this software...
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    NX5 PCB Exchange

    Hi All, Is anyone using the PCB exchange translator within NX5. Were currently looking at using it for exchanging ecad data with Cadstar. Does it exchange data well for defining keep out and in regions etc.. Thanks in advance.
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    Single Assembly JT File

    Hi All, Does anyone know how to export a single assembly JT file from NX4? Default exports a JT file of the Top level assembly and then creates a sub folder on the OS with a JT file of each instance. What options do you need to define within Preferences > JT to create the single file? Thanks...
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    NX Drafting Boarders with TCEng

    Hi, Your grip program sounds good. Do you have a download area I could pull it down from? Maybe the UGS Gtac area?
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    UG minimum requirements

    Hello, We benchmark machines and more recently the HP 64 bit range. I'd suggest the HP 9400, either AMD (Cheaper and faster) or intel duo. Good value for money. Always go for a UGS supported machine building your own isnt good in the long run. Also the ATI 7300 is a rather cool card!
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    NX Drafting Boarders with TCEng

    Hi Shadowspawn, Any help with getting automating this solution would be great! Using the insert & replace pattern util is getting painful.
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    NX Drafting Boarders with TCEng

    Does anyone have any macros for resizing drawing sheets with titles within Teancenter? Currently we have specification master files within the database which reference pattern information so it creates our title block when we create a drawing. However were finding when we resize our sheets say...
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    NX4 Drafting Titles within TCEng

    Does anyone have any macros for resizing drawing sheets with titles within Teancenter? Currently we have specification master files within the database which reference pattern information so it creates our title block when we create a drawing. However were finding when we resize our sheets say...
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    NX4 Drafting

    Does anyone have any macros for resizing drawing sheets with titles within Teancenter? Currently we have specification master files within the database which reference pattern information so it creates our title block when we create a drawing. However were finding when we resize our sheets say...
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    Teamcenter Setup

    Hi All, Our site has recently installed TC Engineering 9.1.3.3 with NX4. We would like to configure some revision rules as currently when revising a part to say revision B users can still open revision A do changes an save revision A. I remember from my training that this action was performed...
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    Faceted representations

    Using NX4, with the top level assembly set to work part. Is it possible to copy associative representations of a parts faceted reference set to our top level assembly? i.e.- Top level ASM - Layer 100 = Faceted representations of the parts. If anyone has the process it would be most helpful...
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    NX Drafting

    Thanks all, NX2D has fixed it!
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    NX Drafting

    Are there any NX users that use NX for pure 2D drafting? (Not detailing) Our department is really struggling to use NX in this area. Our company has recently moved from Ideas to NX and this area of NX really need to be addressed!!!!! Thanks.

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