Facet bodies
Facet bodies
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I'm looking for some general info regarding facet bodies from people who have worked with them. I may need to do some modeling soon based on imported STL data, what tools does NX5 offer to work with this data? Can you section it, smooth it, patch holes, and use it to create proper surfaces and solid models? It looks like you'd need a studio free form license, anything else?
I have another CAD package for this but would like to try out NX, see what it can do.
I have another CAD package for this but would like to try out NX, see what it can do.





RE: Facet bodies
For appearance purposes, like anything you'll need to pick the slabs from the radii if you want to define discrete faces, which you'll need to do if you intend to have a smoothly surfaced part with highlights in all the right places.
If it is for function then NX also comes into its own if you use chunky solids techniques to identify flat faces and carve out the elements from larger blocks, as one example of how you might tackle some parts.
Sounds like you'll have some interesting work ahead
Regards
Hudson
RE: Facet bodies
Seem that I cannot do much, if anything, with a facet body without that license? I might try a point cloud.
RE: Facet bodies
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Facet bodies
"The Rapid Surfacing command reverse engineers a facet body quickly, where speed is more important than surface quality. You specify the desired degrees and segments, and create a curve network on the facet body. NX uses this curve network to generate a G1 continuous surface model of the facet body."
Used in combination with Match Edge, Snip, Pole Smoothing, Refit Face and Shape by Template, I would imagine you could reverse engineer your part pretty accurately.
Might be worth looking into if this is the kind of work you'll be doing in the future. There are also other commands available that you might find handy for other modeling tasks.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
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