{"id":1871,"date":"2013-11-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/News-NX-Manufacturing\/Description-Field-Enhancement-in-NX9-CAM\/ba-p\/19117"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:18:30","slug":"description-field-enhancement-in-nx9-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/description-field-enhancement-in-nx9-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Description Field Enhancement in NX9 CAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In each release of NX, there are always enhancements that are overlooked and underappreciated.&nbsp; I think the enhancements made to Notes and Description fields in NX9 CAM fit into this category.<\/P><P>First, the Description enhancements: this is really an expansion of the description field to almost all CAM objects.&nbsp; It was already available on certain objects like tool, but not others.&nbsp; Additionally, information in the description field can now be published via post processing.<\/P><P>Here is an example of the Description field added to the Program object:<\/P><P><IMG align=\"center\" border=\"0\" title=\"Program Object with Description Field.jpg\" alt=\"Program Object with Description Field.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/2989i5014D5A4AABED331\/image-size\/large?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" \/><\/P><P>A Description column has also been added to the Operation Navigator.&nbsp; By default, the description name is the same as the object name, but if the user types information into the description field for that object, the description field will use that new information.<\/P><P><IMG align=\"right\" border=\"0\" title=\"Description Field in Operation Navigator.jpg\" alt=\"Description Field in Operation Navigator.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/2991i76C07218751F7FF4\/image-size\/large?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" \/><\/P><P>Best of all, the description field is available for post processing.&nbsp; The format for the new variables is <STRONG>mom_<EM>object name<\/EM>_description<\/STRONG>.&nbsp; Some examples are: <EM>mom_program_description<\/EM>, <EM>mom_operation_description<\/EM>, <EM>mom_geometry_description<\/EM>, <EM>mom_tool_description<\/EM>, and <EM>mom_method_description<\/EM>.<\/P><P>The following video demonstrates this enhancement.<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lia-vid-container video-embed-center\">\n<div id=\"lia-vid-5vdWZtaDoHgsap63vZdAZa_2SEDyEtwUw596h447r311\" class=\"lia-video-ooyala-player-container\"><\/div>\n<p><script>LITHIUM.OoyalaPlayer.addVideo('https:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/static\/v4\/production\/', 'lia-vid-5vdWZtaDoHgsap63vZdAZa_2SEDyEtwUw596h447r311', '5vdWZtaDoHgsap63vZdAZa_2SEDyEtwU', {\"pcode\":\"sxdjkxOluLl_gSQrV57FiGraFE2-\",\"playerBrandingId\":\"ODI0MmQ3NjNhYWVjODliZTgzY2ZkMDdi\",\"width\":\"596px\",\"height\":\"447px\"});<\/script><a class=\"video-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/video\/gallerypage\/video-id\/5vdWZtaDoHgsap63vZdAZa_2SEDyEtwU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(view in My Videos)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/P><P><STRONG>About the Author<\/STRONG><\/P><P><SPAN><IMG alt=\"Jim closeup 100x100.jpg\" title=\"Jim closeup 100x100.jpg\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/1399iCE241B583B7CB96A\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" align=\"left\" \/>Jim has a Master\u2019s degree in Business Administration from the University of Central Missouri. He has over 30 years of experience in the manufacturing industry, and over 25 years of experience in the CAD\/CAM field. He serves as Field Support for Siemens PLM CAM products. Prior to his current role, he held stints as CNC Programmer, CAD\/CAM Department Manager, CAD\/CAM instructor, and Project Coordinator for Siemens PLM CAM software development.&nbsp; He is a founding member of <STRONG><EM>Speling -n- Grammar Association<\/EM><\/STRONG>.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In each release of NX, there are always enhancements that are overlooked and underappreciated.&nbsp; I think the enhancements made to Notes and Description fields in NX9 CAM fit into this category.  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61603,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,38],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-computer-aided-manufacturing-cam","tag-nc-programming"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Jim-closeup-100x100-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}