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Just had a class showing "what's new" in Siemens PLM Unigraphics NX6. WOW are we in for some great fun using the new tools. I can’t wait!

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company Debuts Russia's First Paperless Aircraft Using
Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter Collaboration Solution.

Openmoko is an open source cell phone that runs a version of Linux. The creators have now published the CAD files for the Neo enclosure, bring the openness to a whole new level. You can design your own phone! – [via] Link.

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OpenMoko: $300 Linux-powered mobile phone – Link.

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What an awesome sketch tool ‘ILoveSketch‘ It shows a 3D Sketch tool with out any cuts in the video, using a stylus on a touch screen.

ILoveSketch No-Cut Demo: Spacecraft from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

To tell NX that you have a different location for you custom templates, set a variable: UGII_TEMPLATE_DIR=<directory of templates>

This needs to be set in your ugii_env.dat file, so that it is consistent with Teamcenter integration and Native NX.

The Template folder for Native and Teamcenter looks for a .pax file.

For Teamcenter pax files: (start with nxdm)

• nxdm_ugs_drawing_templates.pax
• nxdm_ugs_model_templates.pax

For Native pax files:

• ugs_drawing_templates.pax
• ugs_model_templates.pax

Within each of these pax files points to the name, and location of the files to be used. The Teamcenter files are pointed to Teamcenter Item/IDs with the syntax of @DB\ITEM_ID\REV

Set a variable: UGII_ENV_FILE=<location>\ugii_env.dat to have all your clients using the same configuration. Put this <location> on a share on a server, each seat would have this location mapped as a drive and one variable set to point to this location. Now you have complete control for all seats in your environment.

If you selected the option to not show this dialog next time when opening a JT file using iSeries, and now you want to see this dialog again so that you can change the options. Open iSeries File -> Preferences -> Interoperate; Toggle “Ask at load time”.

<W@$SH_SHEET_NUMBER> – Sheet number of the current sheet

<W@$SH_NUMBER_OF_SHEETS> – Number of sheets in the current part

<W@$SH_SHEET_SCALE_NUMERATOR> – Numerator of the sheet scale

<W@$SH_SHEET_SCALE_DENOMINATOR> – Denominator of the sheet scale

<W@$SH_SHEET_SIZE> – Size of the current sheet

<W@$SH_SHEET_UNITS> – Units of the current sheet

<W@$SH_SHEET_PROJECTION_ANGLE> – Projection angle symbol of the current sheet

<W@$SH_MASTER_PART_NAME> – Master Model drawing sheet part name

<W@$SH_PART_NAME> – Sheet part name

Starting in Teamcenter Engineering 2005 SR1 MP3, they have added a new format string. In the “IMAN_BASE_DIR\lang\textserver\en” is a file for time. Add the following key:
<key id=”NXDefaultDateFormat”>%d-%b-%Y</key>  

Restart your Teamcenter Service and open your drawings now it will have the DDMMYYYY format. If you want other formats there are other variables to get different results.

Customer defaults has a site standards section under assemblies section.

You need to define your naming convention using regular expressions. In your case you have 6 digit part number with an ‘underscore’ two digit number.

An example Regular expression for your site standards would be: (each line represents each section in the site standards)
([0-9]{6})(|_[0-9]{2})
\1
\1(|_[0-9]{2})
\2

Set the rule to numeric.

Another example would be:
([dD]?[0-9]{2}[a-zA-Z]?[0-9]{5,7})(|([a-zA-Z]{1,2}))

which would be for parts in this type of series:
1234567
12345678
123456789
d1234567
d12345678
d123456789

1234567_a
12345678_a
123456789_a
d1234567_a
d12345678_a
d123456789_a

Set your load options to load latest (now available since you set your site standards).

First I’d like to say, I’m not a fan of AutoCad. Second I’d like to say I’m a fan of AutoDesk draw for the web. http://draw.labs.autodesk.com/ This allows you to draw in 2D on any of the standard web browsers (IE, Firefox, others). With out any downloads, installs etc. You can take this offline if you have Google Gears installed, which is a platform for taking web applications offline. You can save the files on their servers or your own. No signup just start drawing. Check it out.