Routing Systems

Routing Systems: General
Measure Distance
A Distance measurement with Type of Points on Curves or Routing Path Length gives you distance between points on a set of curves or the length of a routing path.
USE:
Use Measure Distance to get the information about the length of a path.
Menu      Analysis→Measure Distance
Toolbar  Utility


Minimum bend radius spline violations

A new design rule capability highlights specific violation locations for splines
violating the minimum curve bend radius design rule.

USE:

Use this new capability to find the exact location of sharp corners on splines
to help edit or eliminate the problem.
Application Routing Electrical / Routing Mechanical
Menu

Analysis→Check Mate→Run Tests , and
Analysis→Design Rules→Interactive Check
For automatic checks:
Application Routing Electrical
Menu Preferences→Wiring
Location in dialog box General page-->Report Routing Errors check box.


Smart Router: Quick Path

Quick Path automatically creates a collision free path between two specified
locations, and optionally, through specified intermediate locations. The
resulting path comprises lines and arcs, but not splines, and avoids obstacles
by a specified clearance value. You can adjust the path for the final desired
path.
USE:

Use Quick Path to avoid manually creating a collision-free non-trivial path
between two locations.

Application Routing Electrical / Routing Mechanical
Menu Insert→Routing Path→Quick Path
Toolbar Routing Path→Quick Path

Block, Cylinder, Sphere, and Cone associativity

The Block, Cylinder, Sphere, and Cone commands are now associative to their respective point, vector, and curve positioning objects.
If you subsequently move one of the positioning objects, the feature updates associatively.


Why should I use it?
This new associativity makes primitive features more useful for modeling prismatic objects such as machining fixtures.


Where do I find it?
Application Modeling
Menu Insert-->Design Feature-->Block/Cylinder/Sphere/Cone

Restore last NX session

You can now use bookmarks to save and restore the following characteristics
of your NX session:
• The load status of parts
• The configuration rules
• The Assembly Navigator’s expand/collapse state
The enhanced bookmarks also support sessions that have assemblies with
both transient and persistent nodes.
Bookmarks are stored in the native NX file system, regardless of whether you
are in native NX or Teamcenter Integration for NX.
Use:
This function lets you save time by preserving the state of your current NX
session, so you need not reset the above characteristics when you return to
your work in later sessions.
How to use it?
To save a bookmark manually 
Menu   
 File-->Save Bookmark
To save a bookmark automatically when you close your session Prerequisite
You must restart your NX session after setting this customer default.
Menu   
 File-->Utilities-->Customer Defaults
Location in dialog box
Gateway-->General-->Part tab-->Write Bookmark File on Exit

To open a new session using a previously-saved bookmark
Menu
In native NX
File-->Open
In Teamcenter Integration for NX
File-->Open Bookmark

WAVE General Relinker

The General Relinker dialog box now has the following enhancements and
changes:
• You can specify whether suppressed components should be included
as source objects by selecting or clearing the Include Suppressed
Components check box in the Settings group.
• You can define the source searching scope for the relinking operation by
setting the new Source Scope option (in the Relink group) to either Parts
in Assembly or Parts in Session.
• You can control whether the General Relinker looks for non-broken WAVE
links, as well as broken ones, with the new Include Non-broken WAVE
Links check box. When this check box is not selected, update performance
is faster, and non-broken links that share the same naming convention as
broken links are not reparented.
• Relink Scope (in the Relink group) is now Target Scope.
• Face/Curve Direction Adjustment, in the Settings group, is now called
Face Normal/Curve Direction Adjustment.

Geometry selection for designing in an assembly context

You can now easily select geometry outside the work part for many NX
Modeling commands. You can automatically copy geometry you select outside
the work part into the work part as either WAVE geometry (which updates
when the source geometry changes) or non-associative geometry (which does
not update).

This functionality uses two new options on the Selection bar: (1) Select
Scope and (2) Create Interpart Link.
You can control interpart selection with the Select Scope option to select
geometry from assembly components other than the work part.
Select Scope options are:
• Entire Assembly
Use this option to select geometry from any component in the assembly.
• Within Work Part and Components
Use this option to limit the selection of geometry to the current work part
and its components, if it is a subassembly.
• Within Work Part Only
Use this option to limit the selection of geometry to the current work part.
If the Select Scope option is not available for a command, this indicates that
the command does not support this design in context functionality. In this
case, you can still use one of the other traditional methods to create interpart
links, such as Wave Geometry Linker.
When selecting geometry from a component other than the work part, you
may choose to create an interpart link or to use the geometry unassociatively.
To create an interpart link, turn on the Create Interpart Link option before
making a selection. For commands where you make multiple selections, you
can turn this option on or off independently for each selection.