Add parts to NX

You can add parts from the product structure and paste them into an assembly in NX, as follows:

Procedure Find the parts to add to NX. These may be individual parts outside the context of any assembly (items or item revisions) or parts in the context of an owning assembly (structure lines). To find individual parts, such as brackets or seals, and send then items or item revisions to NX without any assembly context information: Browse through your product structure or perform a Classification search to locate the parts. Select the required items or item revisions and copy them to the clipboard. Copy the items, item revisions or structure lines from the Teamcenter clipboard to the NX clipboard by right-clicking the clipboard icon in the lower right corner of the Structure Manager window and choosing Send clipboard contents to NX. The item revisions and/or lines on the rich client clipboard are then transferred to the NX clipboard.

Note Only item revisions, not items, are sent to NX. If the clipboard contains any items, Teamcenter identifies the latest working item revision corresponding to each item and sends them to NX instead. Once you transfer the parts to the NX clipboard, add them to an assembly in NX using one of the NX paste options. The parts become components at the currently selected level in the NX assembly. Because a structure line has positioning information, the corresponding new components are positioned according to the spatial information stored in Teamcenter and, consequently, the parts are positioned correctly regardless of the currently selected level in the NX assembly. Items or item revisions have no inherent positioning information, so the corresponding new components are positioned at a default location. If the pasted item revision represents an assembly, Teamcenter Integration for NX loads the corresponding assembly, and adds it as a subassembly under the current NX assembly. Depending on the NX load options, this operation may load any additional parts referenced by the pasted assembly. For an example of how to add assemblies to NX, see the following figures. This example assumes you load assembly A into NX and decide to add mounting hardware. Having searched Teamcenter for the mounting hardware, you decide assembly E is appropriate, and copy its item revision to the clipboard.

Note that you do not copy parts F and G to the clipboard, only part E. Before pasting assembly E in NX After sending E to the NX clipboard, you can paste it under assembly A, and the result is the assembly hierarchy shown in the following figure.

Note that E was the only item revision explicitly pasted into NX; parts F and G were implicitly loaded because they are referenced by E. After pasting assembly E in NX