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Heh heh... You're kind, Stephen! Thank you!

@hualiang178 -- Great question. The mass of the body is generally an *output* from a body, rather than an input, so getting from a mass input to an appropriate "size" is going to either involve: 1) a quick expression calculation (if the shape is canonical and we can easily invert the volume equation) 2) a set of pre-determined known values (like the first half of this video), or 3) an iterative approach to "finding" the right size that produces the desired mass. For this non-canonical shape, I used the third method in the second half of this video. As described, starting at about 1:55 in the video, I have a small optimization (Goal Seek, really) iterating on a size parameter to find the size that produces the desired mass. The "how to" details are in the last third of this video. Does that make sense?

Thanks! That's a great idea. I'll put that one on my list. :-)

@emanuelemarano8661-- Great question! No need for any new licenses here... If you already have User Defined Features (UDFs), we use that exact same license for Feature Templates. :-)

Thanks for the positive feedback! I always appreciate that. 🙂 Product Template Studio has actually been around since NX 5, so there's a lot of this that you can use today in NX 11. (Feature Templates are newer... NX 2206 was the first release.) Thanks again!

@@tbatba yep my work revolves around PTS in NX 11. I love it. But the feature templates ( pts ui for udfs) and FTs in PTS is just too good. P.s. oh also the Algorithmic modeling, have read about it on a forum.

Great! Thanks again. :-) And just so you know, you can totally include Algorithmic Modeling features inside a Feature Template!

@@taylorandersonnxvideos thats awesome. I need to start exploring and learning the algorithmic modelling. 😃

Great question. The little colored CG markers we show here in the Modeling environment are not persisted to where we could display them in Drafting at the moment. But you could certainly use the Measure feature to create an associative point entity at the Center of Mass and then use this in the drawing. Does that make sense?

Great question. Looks like that would be a two-step process today... You could measure the Center of Mass and create a point (either associatively or non-associatively) and then you could measure the location of the point with respect to the new CSYS. Does that make sense? (And yes, this sounds like a great Enhancement Request, if you'd like to submit it.) 🙂

I have found the issue. I don't know that the parts have to be in the same folder as the assembly. I thought I could choose them from another folder.

Thanks, Marvin! For reference, I believe that if you use full paths in the Visual Rule, you can reference parts from other folders as well. Thanks again!

Great question... Tell your friends! :-)

Glad it helped! Thank you!

@wg1159: I'd recommend making sure your template is saved in the "None" state to ensure that the widgets are not saved in a read-only state. Does that help?

Great question! My voiceover is usually recorded at the same time as the demonstration, so I honestly don't do a lot of detailed edits... I went back and tested this just now, and sure enough, the CTRL-Z "Undo" is undoing the "Hide" operation I'd previously performed on the Datum Coordinate System prior to the beginning of the video. So yes... that was just normal NX behavior, and not any editing trickery. 😀 Great eye!

Thank you for your kind comment!

@TrueScaffold: I don't disagree at all! But not everyone does this, hence the other options. :-) Thanks!

@user-ux5gs4dy7o: Great question, actually. You will need to use the Product Template UI to do this swap. It's not a general function that can be used outside the context of a Product Template interface. You *can* of course use "Component Suppression by Expression" techniques without a Product Template interface, if suppressed components are acceptable in your assemblies. Hope that helps!

Not sure what your question is... The new Measure tool was introduced in NX 12.0.1... Are you perhaps looking at one of the older Measure commands (that were not yet retired in NX 12.0.1)?

@jozehrovat3719 -- The optional Advanced Assemblies license, most easily accessible with Value-based Licensing (Design Tokens), lights up the Mass Properties Panel in the Assembly Navigator and Part Navigator, with tons of functionality including multiple assertion options, scaled inertial values when masses are asserted (so inertial properties are closer to reality), Center of Mass visualization options, immediate update without save for mass and inertial properties, mass reference set overrides, maturity-driven assembly rollup options, and much more. And with VBL, you can easily share the license as needed. Hope that helps!

Good point! Thank you!

Definitely! You can certainly include WAVE Link features in a Product Template interface, enabling you to associatively select geometry (points, datums, sheets, bodies, etc.) in nearby parts to use in your construction. Your question is a great one, and it's made me realize that I don't have any videos up about using WAVE with Product Templates. I'll add that to my list! Thanks!

@@taylorandersonnxvideos ooh i will try wave. Although i dont know how to bring them into product template interface. 🙂 the actual root for my question was i discovered pts as an alternative to udfs. But udfs have reference object concept which pts doesnt have. Since udf is a feature. Pts a whole prt. So was wondering how can i implement udf reference concept into pts. If you can answer this it would be a huge help. 🙂

@@taylorandersonnxvideos also i was able to make points user selectable. By craeting a point expression and adding that to template. In the ui it will ask user to select point. The users selection will be the new point and that data is stored in my expression. A makeshift user selection of geometries(only point so far) 😅

@@saratchandramv1886 As for WAVE features, in the Author tool just drag the WAVE feature into the UI... We'll automatically create the right UI to reparent the specific linked objects in the feature. 🙂 And if you're coming from UDFs, then take a look at "Feature Templates" in NX, starting with NX 2206. These are the next-generation UDF, based on a common authoring framework with Product Templates. Here are some videos about those (including a WAVE example): ruclips.net/video/XaalG76-A2s/видео.html&pp=iAQB

@@taylorandersonnxvideos ooh will give a try with wave features like u directed. And yep! I learned about feature templates from one of your posts on a forum. Unfortunately for us we need to work on nx 11 😅 I am eagerly waiting for my company to upgrade to a new version so i cn try feature templates. Will definitely check out the videos on it. Thanks alot.

Great question! Certainly when a group is working together on an assembly, an individual component may be owned (and open for editing) by one designer, while also being viewed (in read-only mode) by others at the same time. And yes, if the mass and inertial properties have not yet been stored with the saved part, the read-only "others" can certainly generate mass properties data if needed in the context of their work. Their changes will not be saved when they close the read-only parts, but they can certainly calculate mass rollups, for instance, without the need for full read/write access to all components at the same time. Hope that answers your question!

Thanks. Your answer confirm that collaboration work is not there yet.

Heh heh... That's an interesting conclusion to draw from what I said... We certainly have thousands of large-scale customers collaborating around weight and balance today worldwide. :-) Thanks for stopping by!

Sorry I used the word collaboration but maybe that's not the exact word I need to use to explain my thoughts. Here's what I was thinking when I used the words "collaboration work". I was thinking more of a continuous improvement and live sharing system like those used in software development (Example: Visual Studio and the Github platform). This type of functionality implemented in CAD software could allow mass property updates by a manager or line manager through an automatic notification and automatic update process after approval by the 3D model owner.

@@lebeluet NX certainly does a lot of real-time change notification in the context of assemblies these days. Here's a good video to start you down that road: ruclips.net/video/sDopPt6RQ5w/видео.html

Definitely! Sounds like a great application for using a Parameter Table to capture those standard configurations. Great question!

Thanks! Check out my playlist of videos on Product Templates here: ruclips.net/p/PLbSlfYWKqgizjHRbT4wY5Fzss2b0BEG6P

The key may be the formula for the String expression in the Text feature -- using the incremented point position to *also* increment the index of the selection from the list of labels. The explanation of this starts at 6:00 in this video. Does that help?

@@taylorandersonnxvideos That worked, thank you very much!