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Auomatically finding part cube size ??

Auomatically finding part cube size ??

Auomatically finding part cube size ??

(OP)
Does any one know of a way for NX to automatically calculate the "rough" square of a part based on a wcs.
I am looking to automate the parts list to add rough block sizes for material ordring with out having to manually select and record the "cube size".

LMTDCS

RE: Auomatically finding part cube size ??

You can do that with GRIP, at least in terms of getting the X,Y,Z coordinates of the diagonal corners of the 'box' that a Solid, Face or Edge would be contained in, relative to the absolute CSYS of the part file.  From that you could derive the Length, Width and Height of the 'box'.  The name of the command is SOLBOX/.

Attached below is a copy of the documentation for this function taken from the GRIP Programming guide.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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RE: Auomatically finding part cube size ??

Cowski,

That probably just means that it is a fairly old grip program. Grip always knew the WCS co-ordinate system but only latterly did we have techniques to reference it back to absolute. Like many I have probably used this and also wrote a few that output point co-ordinate tables, or worked with cmm data etc... you originally had to reference one of the standard views supposing that it's co-ordinate system was set to absolute.

Best Regards

Hudson

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