2.9 Cut, Copy and Paste

Creating a copy of an existing item in NX

During this tutorial and during exam phases you may need to edit given items. To get editing privileges you need to create a copy of given item. To do so follow these instructions:

Open the item you are told to edit in NX. For demonstrational purposes search for the item klotz_0a of the Owning Users uebung_et. Please leave Owning Group empty. (To load the part refer to Chapter 2.8 "searching the database"). In NX click File -> Save -> Save As. The window Save Parts As pops up. In this click the dropdown menu and choose Action -> Save As "New Item" (refer figure "Save Parts As"). Then enter a new name by double clicking Name. A new ID is generated automatically. In Other Parameters, you can choose the directory you want to save in. Confirm by clicking OK.

Now you created a copy of the given item, which you can edit and save.

Attention:

If you have to edit any given item, always save them as a new file with a new name.
Otherwise you will loose all changes you make on it.
Sometimes your ID is already taken, and saving is not possible any more. In this case you need to save the item with a new ID and Name by clicking File -> Save -> Save As.

In Teamcenter you can use functions as Cut , Copy and Paste. However, these options only affect the respective shortcut to an item.

Your home directory is only a view of items inside the data base. Only shortcuts to different items are displayed. Hence, you can only edit those shortcuts with Cut , Copy and Paste.

For example, Copy only copies the shortcut to a different folder in your teamcenter directory.

Attention:

This does NOT duplicate the Item!

As a consequence, if you cut an Item with Cut, and don't paste it again, only the shortcut gets lost, the actual file still remains in the data base.