NX Open and Expression

Submitted by h15c0r3r on Tue, 11/19/2013 - 04:39
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Hi all,

I'm hoping someone can help me out with this one.

In NX when I go into expressions I have the ability to add functions (by clicking on the icon) such as tan then I'm prompted to input my number with NX then writing the formula.

Is it possible to create your own custom functions with the use of NX Journaling? I basically want to select a function, be prompted for some values then the formula expression be created automatically.

Any help very much appreciated.

NXJournaling - Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:03

In Excel, you can write a VBA function and use that in the cell formula. This is a great feature, but I know of no equivalent in NX. Is this what you had in mind?

However, you could write some code that will prompt for inputs and write the entire formula into the expression. The limitation being that you would have to be able to express the formula in the expression system (no loops, limited branching, etc...).

h15c0r3r - Wed, 11/20/2013 - 02:59

That is exactly the sort of thing I was after. I was hoping I could add a function to the existing default ones but I can't see anything like that in NX.

Many thanks for your reply.

druudje - Fri, 11/29/2013 - 12:22

Hello all,

I don't know if this the correct forum for this question but will give it a try.
We use NX 7.5 with Excel as UserInterface for our models. In excel add-ins there are a lot of (unused) nx commands. Is it possible to customize this?