Answer:

The concurrent engineering ability of VX largely resides in the part/sub-part paradigm -- where a part can be divided into sub-parts in different files, but merged into one part via the component merge commands. By subdividing a part into sub-parts linked by reference geometry, multiple users can work on portions of a part in different files. When the top-level "master" part is regenerated, the latest saved versions of the parts are re-merged into the parent part -- drawn from their respective files.

 

 

 

Answer:

When you use a sketch or curve list to create a feature, they are automatically blanked when the feature is created. If you want to display them, set the pick filter to Features and double-left-click on the feature to "show" all of it's related sketches, curve lists, dimensions and/or components. You can also right-click on the feature and select Show from the Object Editorpopup menu.

 

 

 

Answer:

• Create a plane perpendicular to the drill hole

• Insert drill hole

• Sketch on the same plane - create the SpotFace Diameter

• Sketch in a plane perpendicular to the above plane - find the intersection point of the surface and the spotface diameter at the low point. Create some geometry there (i.e., a line)

• Extruded Cut - use "to point" as the depth of the extrusion

 

 

 

Answer:

Use a Comma separated Ascii text file (not a word doc)

Format:

# pound sign is a comment line

#

upper (group label)(optional)(no delimiters < >)

0,1.25,3 (Z coordinate is optional)

1,2

lower

0,-2.3,3

-1,-2

 

 

 

Answer:

• Create a sketch

• Add text

• Change text attribute - font - to Duplex Roman (Double Walled)

• EDIT - Explode (pick the text) (you now have lines)

• EDIT - Erase the text

• May need to trim the corners on some letters

• Go back to the part

• Extrude Add

 

 

 

Answer:

Use the Dynamic Sectioning command.  You will need an existing datum plane to locate the section.  You can also create sections offset to the datum plane.  With the display set to Shade, you can dynamically drag the section plane to display cut-a-way views of the part.

 

 

 

Answer:

VXCorp\VX7.0\supp\VXGL_STYLE

Pay attention to the size (2**n) where n=(0-4)

Don’t change the name USER

 

 

 

Answer:

INQUIRE > Distance > Plane - Point

 

 

 

Answer:

The middle mouse button (MB) tells VX to accept the last input logged with the system. Pressing the <Enter> key when the text input field is inactive (or is active but has not input) also accepts the last input.

 

When VX automatically shows a value in the text input field, it is showing you the current input value that has already been logged with the system. In some cases, like the fillet command, this value is automatically logged as a default. If you press the MB, or press <Enter>, this input is accepted. If you want to change the value, you have to activate the text input field, type in the new value and press the <Enter> key, which causes the new text input to be accepted. If you type in the text and press MB, you'll still get the last input logged with the system, not what you see in the window. That is because the MB is not recognized by Windows as the <Enter> key for text input.

 

You might ask, why doesn't VX override Windows and make the MB act like the <Enter> key when text has been typed into the text input area. VX avoids doing this so that you have a way of accepting the last (or default) input after new text has been put in the text input area. If the original input was immediately lost as soon as you started typing in the text input area, you'd be stuck if you decided you wanted to keep the default input. Once you type new text in the text input field (or VX dynamic echo puts a new value there temporarily), you have to apply a keyboard <Enter> event to the text field to cause it to replace the default input. Up until that point, you can use the MB to ignore the temporary text input and use the default input.

 

 

 

Answer:

If you are trying to pick an entity when it is coincident with more than one other entity, use F6 to scroll through all entities that cross the pick aperture. When you get to the one you want, press <Enter>. "Alt-Pick" can be used to get "the other" entity in the case that there are just two coincident entities -- or that you are trying to get "the other face" from an edge pick -- but you have to go to F6 when there are more than two overlapping entities.

 

 

 

Answer:

You are in shaded or hidden line mode. To plot a shaded or rendered images, see below.

 

To plot a shaded image:

 

• Set the Plot format to - TIFF

• Plotter Specific Settings - TIFF

• Destination Type - File

• Plot Destination - click on the file folder and brows for suitable location and give file name.

• Click on "Plot to Destination"

• Click on START - Programs - Accessories - Imaging

• Open your file

• Set 'file types' to "All Image Files" if necessary.

• Click on the File Pull-down - pick Print
   

To plot a rendered image (3 steps):

 

• Click on the Attributes menu - pick Render...

• Background - White

• Display Mode - Both

• Image Width and Height - example 1024 by 768

• Pick the format you want to create

• Browse for location and give file name INCLUDING file extension

• Pick - "Defaults - Apply"

• Click on the Tools menu - pick Render

• Click on START - Programs - Accessories - Imaging

• Open your file

• Set 'file types' to "All Image Files" if necessary.

• Click on the File Pull-down - pick Print
   
   

 

Answer:

At the Part Level:

 

• Rotate the view the way you would like to see it on the drawing sheet.

• Click on the View menu - Pick View Manager...

• Click on Store and give it a name

 

At the Drawing Sheet Level:

 

• Click on "Insert a Standard View", when the list of views comes up, pick "view"

• From the list of user defined views, pick the view you want.

 

 

 

Answer:

The Glossary tab is initially disabled during VX Interactive Help.  This occurs in the compiled version of VX help (i.e., when VX is set to "iexplore.exe" as the default web browser on the Files tab of the VX Configuration Form).

 

If you want to use the Glossary during VX Interactive Help, you need to pick the "Home" icon on the top toolbar of the help browser and then select the "Glossary" tab.  This only has to be done once during a VX interactive help session.

 

Answer:

From the Assembly Manager, right click on the component and pick "REGEN".

 

 

 

Answer:

1. Create a new VX User (by loading VX setup and ONLY creating a new user).
    

2. Copy the directory "output_def" into this new directory. The output_def directory is in the main installed VX directory. This is the directory that contains the file "runpost.bat".
    

3. Modify "runpost.bat" so the path of the IMSpexec.exe is correct for your computer. Mine is: "set IMSPOST_PATH=C:\IMS\IMSpost70b" but yours may be different.  

 

 

 

Answer:

Image types

• GIF

• JPG - JPEG

• TIF - Tagged Image File

• BMP - Bit Map

• EPS - Encapsulated Post Script

• SGI - ?
   

Translators

• igs - IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Language

• dxf - AutoCad Files

• dwg - AutoCad Files

• stp - STEP Standard for exchange of product model data

• stl - Stereo Lithography (Export Only)

• vda - verbandderautomobileindustrie

• wrl - VRML Virtual ? ? Language (Export Only)

• sat - ASIS format

• ps2 - PartSolution 2D

• ps3 - PartSolution 3D

• cat , model , exp - Catia

• prt - Pro-e and UG

• axp - Anvil Express

• x_b , x_t , xmt_bin , xmt_txt - Parasolids
   

Miscellaneous

• PDF - Portable Document Format (Adobe)

• TXT - Ascii text file

• DOC - Microsoft Word

• XLS - Microsoft Excel

• PPT - Microsoft Power Point

• CSV - Microsoft Excel 'Comma Separated Value' File

• MP3 - Music

• WAV - Sound Bites

• MPEG - Movie

• AVI - Movie

• WRF - WebEx Recorded File

 

 

 

Answer:

C:\Winnt\etc\vxlic\vxv

 

 

 

Answer:

Network card or Dongle (hardware key)

 

If using a hardware key, you will need to load Hasp driver one time. Use "copy - paste"’, don’t type the password.

 

 

 

Answer:

If license server installation hits a snag and communication with the server fails, try the following:

 

1. From the client, PING the server.
    

• Do it again and use the IP address you just received and PING IP#.

 

2. From the server, PING the client.
    

• Do it again and use the IP address you just received and PING IP#. This will establish that we do indeed have communication back and forth.

 

3. On both machines, run ipconfig /all.
    

4. Look to see if the DHCP setting is the same on both. If not, pick another machine as the license server.

 

• If you want to monitor the communication to the vxserver service, Stop the service...
   

cd C:\vxserver

vxserversvc.exe -stop

vxserversvc.exe -debug -dbgprt (Don't click in the window to select it. If you do, hit ENTER)

 

 

 

Answer:

If you are using the hardware key, plug it in to the parallel port.

 

If you are using the new purple hardware keys, plug it into the USB port. Win NT does not support usb. You must have W2K or Win XP.

 

 

 

Answer:

• Split part into core and cavity

• Turn auto-sew off

• Parting lines on the core

• Parting surfaces

• Create an extrusion for the mold plate

• Subtract core from the plate

• Blank part/plate

• Sew

• Possibly have to Reverse Normals. (Red side of the parting Surface is what gets trimmed away) Unblank

• Subtract parting surface from the plate

 

 

 

Answer:

• VX runs on Windows NT service packs 3,4,5 and 6a ; Windows 2000; and XP home and professional. (Not NT sp 6 or Win 95, 98 or ME) To verify the version, click START - Run - type winver

• Pentium II 700 MHz is minimum processor

• OpenGL accelerated graphics card and latest driver is preferred

• Speakers and sound card for tutorials and training

• IRIX is not supported in VX 6 and beyond.

• See also System Requirements

 

 

 

Answer:

• Background - White

• Display Mode - Both

• Image Width and Height - example: 1024 by 768

• TCP/IP - This protocol must be running for rendering to work.

• Pick which format you want to create (see above for file types).

• Browse for location and give file name INCLUDING file extension (see above).

• View - Render (actually creates the file and view if Mode was set to Both).

• Firewall - If you have a 'firewall' installed on your computer, VX will ask you several questions...answer 'YES' to all of them.

 

 

 

Answer:

• Run the import with the options selected adding "Remove Duplicate Surfaces" and possibly adding "Auto activate part". To check if the imported file is a solid,

• Change the pick filter to shape

• Inquire - Entity and pick the part If the status window says its (Closed), it's a solid. If the part is (Open) you need to sew.

• TOOLS - Heal

• Sew (Use default tolerance the first time through). If the result says "unmatched edges = [0]" you have a solid. If not [0], check the gap. If it is reasonable, rerun the sew command with 'Tolerance' that matches the gap, +1 at the least significant digit.

• Heal topology - check both option boxes - if you had to sew at a tolerance other than the default, this will bring the part back to the default tolerance. It also will delete most duplicate surfaces if they came through with a non-native import.

• If there are more edges open, use the command 'Inquire open edges'

• First attempt to close should be to use the 'Extend Faces' command. Typically where there is an open edge, there are two. Pick twice to extend both open edges.

• Second alternative, if extend doesn't work, would be the 'Fill Gaps' command. Maybe there is a full face missing, (more that just two edges).

 

 

 

Answer:

• VX will import both STEP 203 and 214 formats.

• We export 203 only.

• Starting with Version 5.0 we now export using specific vendor information found under "Recommended Options."

• See also STEP/VX Entity Map