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NX Ex ressions Your Wa

(Making Custom DesignLogic Functions)

Ta lor Anderson

NX Product Manager

(DesignLogic, Knowledge Fusion and Validation)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

2008. Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. All rights reserved

Siemens PLM Software

UGS Connection Conference


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The Expressions Dialog: ,

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This became possible at the same time as the new Expressions dialog

(and more importantly, the introduction of Knowledge Fusion in the

background behind model expressions) in NX 3.

..and we havent changed the syntax at all, so

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new functions move forward very reliably.


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Demonstration

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Contents of:

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Contents of:

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First, this filename

determines the

category name in

the Insert Function

dialog.

(If you put multiplefunctions in one

file, they will

appear under the

same Category.)

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Contents of:

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Knowledge Fusion

version statement(This needs to

a ear onl once,

and must be in the

first line of the file.)

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Contents of:

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Name of yournew function

This is OUTSIDE

the comments.)

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States that this

be visible to

DesignLogic

(should show up.

If this equals no,

then the function

to Knowledge

Fusion.

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The #. .# syntax

identifies the

Description here.

This description

will be visible in

the Insert Function

dialog

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The #. .# syntax

identifies the

Description here.

..and also in the

Function

Arguments dialog.

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These three lines

are identifying the

inputs to thisfunction.

Again, the #. .#

syntax identifies

text that will be

displayed at thebottom of the

Insert Function

dialog.

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Contents of:

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These three lines

are identifying the

inputs to thisfunction.

and in the

detailed Function

Arguments dialog.

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The code inside

the procedural

block @{ } here iswhere the rubber

hits the road.

The three inputs

are combined tocreate an out ut

value

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We set the returnun s o e va ue o

be an Angle

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Contents of:

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an e

Knowledge Fusion

to send back a

floating point

num er.

(as opposed to a

string or a vector,

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or ns ance.


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Contents of:

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also automatically

displayed in the

Insert Function

,

the return value.

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Contents of:

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and functions

listed under the

See Also:

ea ng wpopulate the

Related

Functions button.

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