Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
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I can not find how to extrude or revolve a portion of a sketch in NX5. Is this possible in NX5? If so, could you please explain. Through the QuickPick one can select an arc or other object that is a portion of a sketch, but the feature still builds (or tries to) with the entire sketch.
Thanks for you help,
KLINE
Thanks for you help,
KLINE





RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
Thanks again,
KLINE
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
No, I didn't mean that method was too many clicks. But then again, that's not the complete process to Edit the display of an object is it? That's only 2 clicks and nothing has been changed yet, you've only invoked the Edit Display dialog so far. I was speaking in terms of the whole process from start to finish.
Let's say you want to just change color of a curve. With the workflow you provided which already has 2 picks, you have to then pick the color tab (3 clicks) to bring up the color selection, then pick your color (4 clicks if it's shown, add 2 clicks if you need to pick from the FULL color map), then dismiss the menu (5 clicks minium) versus picking from a visible pulldown as I suggested (3 clicks TOTAL -> pick entity, pick pulldown, pick color from pulldown, done).
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
Justin Ackley
Designer
RE: Extrude / Revolve a portion of a sketch?
John,
This is cluttered?:
My GOD!!! Look at all those toolbars above the Selection Bar...they are even MORE CLUTTERED!
I'm counting 7 pulldowns with room for a small 8th....hmmmm...Layer anyone? Go ahead and take 2 away to make room for Selection Intent if you want....or better yet, make the added pulldowns disappear when selection intent is being called upon (like during a revolve).
Regarding any associated "costs", I cannot answer that, but I'm sure your developers might be able to.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.