Use Teamcenter Manufacturing Access while designing a fixture

When you perform fixture planning using NX, you need to create, search, and load studies.

• Administrator

  See the Teamcenter Manufacturing Access Deployment documentation.

  Your administrator completes the following data setup steps:

  1. Deploy your environment

     Install and configure NX, Teamcenter, and Teamcenter Manufacturing Access.

  2. Convert legacy studies

     Convert studies created before using Teamcenter Manufacturing Access using a workflow.

• Fixture planner

  The fixture planner completes the following steps in NX:

  1. Start NX in managed mode

     See the NX documentation.

  2. Search for a collaboration context using Study Manager, and review its studies.

     Note:

     The Study Manager is available to NX Fixture Planner users with Teamcenter Manufacturing Access configured.

  3. (Optional) Create a study

     If after searching, you do not find a suitable study, create a study using the Study Manager.

  4. Load a study using the Study Manager.

  5. Use NX Fixture Planner to begin designing a fixture.

     See the NX Fixture Planner documentation.