NX 2D DRAWING FIX TOOL

Abstract

NX Software is an integrated product design, engineering and manufacturing solution provided by Siemens. It offers a full range of advanced manufacturing applications, integration of multi-discipline simulation and it is considered as the best tightly integrated software with Teamcenter, Product Lifecycle Management plat-form. NX is the follower of I-deas software which is also used for similar purposes. The target of this project was to investigate the problems, which occur while mi-grating designs from I-deas to NX and develop a software, which will modify and adapt the designs NX automatically. In the project an NX Open API called Drawing Fix tool was developed and integrated to NX solution in order to modify 2D drawings on the NX Drafting application which is a module in NX system. The Drawing Fix tool contains the following functions: functions to change style setting of view, dimension and notes, functions to fix Surface Finish Symbols, Weld Symbols and Identification Symbols, functions to remove I-deas title block, custom symbols and to save data from the title block and a function to hide the points. The Drawing Fix tool was implemented by using NX Open libraries with C# programming language while using NX Block UI Styler and Microsoft Windows Form library for user interfaces. The tool runs on NX Drafting module and while the tool is running in the background the designer is informed on the fixing pro-cess through pop up information window. All the objectives of the project were achieved and the Drawing Fix Tool was presented to two different customers of IDEAL PLM and it is currently in the production phase.