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Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

(OP)
I'm attempting to combine two adjacent faces in a solid model in order to eliminate an edge that is causing me trouble when meshing for FE analysis.  One of the faces is planar, the other is a trimmed toroid; if you imagine a top hat shape, I am trying to join the brim of the hat with the fillet around the base of the cylindrical part.  I would like to end up with one b-surface that approximates the two originals.

Edit>Face>Join Face sounds like the right thing, but it tells me "Face is not parametrical-rectangular" when I pick the planar surface.

Insert>Free Form Feature>Quilt looks promising, but I just can't seem to make it work.  It distributes points across about half of the area, then just stops and doesn't seem to make any more progress.

Any suggestions?

RE: Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

Try loosening up your tolerances for the Quilt feature & see if you get acceptable results.

I think I have a good idea of what your part may look like.  If I am getting this mental image correct, the entire solid could possibly be made from a single revolution, correct?  So why not use Join Curve to join all of your curves into one continuous spline & then revolve the spline to create the solid?  That should eliminate the edges created with the trimmed toroid.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

(OP)
I played with Quilt a bit more and never got it to work properly.  I wonder if it only works on sheet bodies.

Join Curve was the answer.  I was trying to avoid re-creating the geometry because the "top hat" is part of a larger imported solid (imagine a bit of formed sheet metal with holes in it and top hats sticking through the holes), but in the end it was easier to chop it out and re-create it.

Thanks for your help.




Matt

RE: Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2

Yes, Quilt only works with sheet bodies (surfaces or whatever term you wish to use) or sheets that have been sewn together.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

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