Anderson - Design - Custom DesignLogic Functions

NX Expressions
p Your Way
y
(Making Custom DesignLogic Functions)
Taylor
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NX Product Manager
(DesignLogic, Knowledge Fusion and Validation)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
UGS Connection Conference
2008. Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. All rights reserved
Siemens PLM Software
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The Expressions Dialog:
Where
Where are the equations
equations, anyway?
anyway?
This is actually not a new NX 6 thing
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

new functions move forward very reliably.
Demonstration
Contents of:
angle conversions.dfa
angle_conversions.dfa
Contents of:
First, this filename

determines the
category name in
the Insert Function
dialog.
(If you put multiple

functions in one
file, they will
appear under the
same Category.)
Contents of:
Knowledge Fusion
version statement
(This needs to
appear
pp only
y once,,
and must be in the
first line of the file.)
Contents of:
Name of your
new function
((This is OUTSIDE
the comments.)
Contents of:
States that this

function SHOULD
be visible to
DesignLogic
(should show up
in expressions.)
expressions )
If this equals no,

then the function
will only be visible
to Knowledge
Fusion.
Contents of:
The #. .# syntax
identifies the
Description here.
This description
will be visible in
the Insert Function
dialog
g
Contents of:
The #. .# syntax
identifies the
Description here.
..and also in the

Function
Arguments dialog.
Contents of:
These three lines

are identifying the
inputs to this
function.
Again, the #. .#
syntax identifies
text that will be
displayed at the
bottom of the
Insert Function
g
dialog.
Contents of:
These three lines

are identifying the
inputs to this
function.
and in the
detailed Function
Arguments
g dialog.
g
Contents of:
The code inside

the procedural
block @{ } here is
where the rubber
hits the road.
The three inputs

are combined to
create an output
value
Contents of:
We set the return

units
it off the
th value
l tot
be an Angle
Contents of:
and d ttellll
Knowledge Fusion
to send back a
floating point
number.
b
(as opposed to a
string or a vector,
f instance.)
for i t )
Contents of:
This comment is
also automatically
displayed in the
Insert Function
dialog describing
dialog,
the return value.
Contents of:
and functions
listed under the
See Also:
h di will
heading ill
populate the
Related
Functions button.
Another
D
Demonstration
t ti
Thank you!
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..and we havent changed the syntax at all, so

First, this filename

(If you put multiple

States that this

If this equals no,

..and also in the

These three lines

These three lines

The code inside

The three inputs

We set the return

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