N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
(OP)
Hi,
I'm trying to fill this cutting with N-side but the result is bad, (in Catia V5 it was Fill).
Can I use another command for this?
Thank you, for your help.
I'm trying to fill this cutting with N-side but the result is bad, (in Catia V5 it was Fill).
Can I use another command for this?
Thank you, for your help.





RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
My version is NX5, but I think this is not relevant, for my issue.
Thank you.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
The surface you want could be easily made with a Styled Corner, but you'll have to have a Shape Studio license for that, I believe.
The only other alternatives would be Transition Surface or using an Edge Blend with Setback.
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: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
It's not a problem to use Blend with Corner Setback but when I've an internal edge like in the picture the Blend with Corner Setback is stopping there, and I need sometimes to cross this edge, for that reason I try to cut and to fill, of course I can't erase that surface (edge).
Thank you.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
If you have to manually surface such a corner then the trick is always to come up with some strategy for building the surfaces that can define a proper four sided curve mesh without any sharp corners. The best way then is to build the surfaces oversized and then trim one back to another to achieve an acceptable result. Geometry such as you're working with can then be patched on to the model.
The attached is a quick and dirty rough example.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
but is not that I've expected, sorry to hear that is no solution.
Best regards.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
There ARE solutions...you just may not be licensed for some of them.
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: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
I can use Studio Design also but I didn't found the way to construct this.
Regards.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
John,
If some of these corner blends could be looked at what I'd like to see improved at that same time is the tangency conditions for internal edges of blends or face blends that are created when some blends cross other edge boundaries. There would be little point as I see it being able to create this currently impossible corner setback, if only to find that it outputs a sharp edge.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
If it were up to me I'd still have you build the surfaces in a way that offers considerably more control over the outcomes.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
but ... get there faster is that what is most wanted what sells.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
When is simple and fast constructed, will be easy to update and change for future,
I'm trying to simplify my constructions as much I can...
Is good to hear that in NX6 we can find some tool for this issue.
Regards.
RE: N-sided surface ??___Ballcorners
Styled Corner is the command to be used for the scenario in your original NX image. I've used it many times for creating this exact type of corner. It is a single command that asks you to input 3 blend faces and 1 other face (in your case, the flat top face). Once you input those faces, you have 4 different choices for building the corner (how the bridge curves are created) as well as choices for continuity up to G3.
You MAY need to apply the blends untrimmed and unattached (Face Blend will do this easily), then create the Styled Corner, allow the corner feature to Trim all the blends (or you can do it manually). From there, you can either choose to Sew all surfaces together or Sew just the blends then Patch then into the block solid body. However, you might be able to get the same result with your current workflow....I don't have NX to use at the moment to check.
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.