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Circular Instance in NX4

Circular Instance in NX4

Circular Instance in NX4

(OP)
Does anybody know how to do a circular instance of a sweep in NX 4?

I have created a funnel shaped hole using the sweep command, then subtracting it from my solid.  I would then like to instance (pattern) about the axis of my part.  However, when I start the instance command, the solid part I have made is not an option to select.  

Have I done something wrong?

What should I do to get this to work?

RE: Circular Instance in NX4

Make sure you are using Insert>Associative Copy>Instance Geometry rather than Insert>Associative Copy>Instance Feature

RE: Circular Instance in NX4

Instance Geometry was not available in NX 4 as it was a new function for NX 5.  Try creating a Feature Group even if it contains only a single body and then see if you can instance it.

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RE: Circular Instance in NX4

(OP)
Using a  feature group worked....thanks John

RE: Circular Instance in NX4

The other often used alternative is pattern face which would be available if the body is united to another solid. It seems to be a little neater and cleaner in the tree and does not appear to so severely drain system resources to process addition boolean operations.

The beauty of creating a feature group as the input to an array pre-NX-5 was that it will allow the array to exist without a prior boolean. Of course if you do have to later perform multiple booleans those may be slower to process.

Cheers

Hudson

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