NX How to populate Mass Properties values for bulk amount of released NX data in TC?

2022-09-20T21:03:59Z
NX for Design

Summary


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There are large amount of released NX data in TC that do not have Mass Properties value populated; this can be due to "Update Mass Properties" option not being properly set in NX within these dataset:


How to populate Mass Properties values for bulk amount of released NX data in TC?

Solution

Use the command line utility called part_utility to generate Mass Properties in the released UGMaster dataset without interactive loading them into NX session. A few setups are required to do so:

In NX:

Set up customer defaults dpv file to contains the following entry:

<Pref Application="Gateway" Category="Materials/Mass" Tab="Miscellaneous" displayValue="Always Generate" modified="2022-07-18T03:45:36" name="Assemblies_OverrideGenerateWeightData" title="Override Generate Mass Data" value="1"/>

OR

Modify this Customer Defaults setting interactively in NX: Gateway > Materials/Mass > Miscellaneous tab: Override Generate Mass Data = Always Generate


In Teamcenter:

Create a new folder (example used here is called released) to contain all of the released Items. (Note down the owner of this new folder for later steps)


Instruction to execute part_utility:

In TC environmented command window, run the command line utility "part_utility" located in UGII_BASE_DIR\NXBING folder:

C:\apps\CAD\NX2007\NXBIN>part_utility -managed_mode=yes -u=infodba -p=infodba -bypass=yes -allow_released=yes -regen_lw -f=released -folder_user=gtacdba


Once part_utility is completed, the Mass Property will have proper value in UGMaster Named References' UGPART-MASSPR form.


Notes

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KB Article ID# PL8658467

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