How can you model this part in NX5?
How can you model this part in NX5?
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A general question here, I'm having a hard time working out how to set up a sweep to get a part like the one attached below.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Any advice greatly appreciated.





RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
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Hi JohnVincent thanks for the pointers I'll play around wth the project curve command to see what I can get. At least I know where to begin now...
RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
Have a look at the attached because there is more to be understood about such examples than may at first meet the eye.
I suspect that what is really involved is that the groove would be cut using an end mill on the 4th axis of a machining centre. It creates a geometry for which the perfect swept solid path is difficult to define. My first example more or less arrives at a construction method attempting to duplicate that kind of geometry. It looks rough and more like the original. The second example is more or less like what I think John has modelled in NX-6.
Delete the Move Face at the end to overlay the two. Sorry if the features are a bit of a mash it really isn't such a complex design anyway. In all likelihood you may wish to differently constrain the wrapped sketches. I didn't bother since it wasn't necessary to prove the method.
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Hudson
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RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
Thanks very much for the support on the model side. that really gives me some ideas.
Sorry John, but I can't open the NX6 rev file. Would it be possible to convert to NX5 please?
I would like to take a look.
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Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
What version are you currently running? I've got another idea that I'm going to try out which might be closer yet to what is desired, but I want to make sure that you can see the final model.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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One other question, are you working in Metric or Imperial units?
John R. Baker, P.E.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
However, in my next post I'll include a slight variation which I suspect is what you're actually looking for.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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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: How can you model this part in NX5?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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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: How can you model this part in NX5?
Model the same surface and do a surface offset of that surface to the other side opposite of the first surface you made. The surface offset equals your cutter radius. Cut the ends off with an extrude where you want your tangent of the cutter to end up at. Make a flat surface at the ends you have cut. Do a (I do not know if UGNX has this I-Deas has all of the perfect commands LOL) Three Surface Fillet between the three surfaces. Now you have the geometry you need.
RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
I have attached the little assembly that I have created to illustrate a few of the earlier examples as compared with what I have found later on.
Mike Mauldin is right in saying that a swept cutter is difficult to duplicate. The thing that he's probably not going to believe is that the swept method he used produces nothing like the correct result. I have subtracted a series of tubes from the solid body to approximate an actual cutter path assuming that the machining method is indeed a 4th axis milling process. I think we can safely stick with this because the original geometry bears it out.
The closest results to the actual sides of the slot were obtained using examples which created a law extension sheet, thickened it and then subtracted. The bottom however wasn't very close at all.
In the latest example number 3 I have used the law extension surface and some wrapped curves to sweep a section using no less that three guides AND a spine curve to control the shape. This is interesting because although some of the surfaces are still quite rough in a few places there is a close match between both the original step data and the section of pseudo cutter path.
I don't know if anybody is really going to take this much interest in the question but it is interesting for me because in an earlier version we attempted the same thing and found ourselves stumped by such an example. I think this time we're a little closer if anything.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
I have no problem at all believing this because I have been down this path many times before. For creating a general depiction of the part this doesn't pose much of a problem. As for drafting, I use curves to describe the center of the slot along with a depth/width callout. The biggest problem I run into is when our manufacturing group tries to use the model with a CMM to verify the part. That is why I would really like to have a way to sweep a solid along a guide.
"The closest results to the actual sides of the slot were obtained using examples which created a law extension sheet, thickened it and then subtracted."
Granted, but using a cylinder to create the end condition gives a much more accurate result for that portion of the feature. Perhaps a hybrid approach would be the best overall solution.
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I 've looked at ervery solution. Here's my . Ok it differs from the orginal - just an other way is the idea - I did my design in Nx6 - And additional have a question to the experts.
As you can see I designed a tool. I should not intersect - but it does- where is my mistake?
thx in ad
RE: How can you model this part in NX5?
It's just the nature of the beast which is why it's so hard to model exactly what the volume of space that a rotating body moving along what in this case would be a 4-Axis cutting path (the cylindrical part would rotate while the cutter moved in a linear direction parallel to the axis of the cylindrical part with the axis of the tool normal to the axis of the cylindrical part).
John R. Baker, P.E.
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http://www.siemens.com/plm
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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I there a better way to model such a cutter path?
thx in ad
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Are you actually manufacturing these items or are they just being modeled so that your 'pictures' look correct?
I mean these things remind me of quick-release fasteners from someone like Camloc...
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...or ZLoc...
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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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: How can you model this part in NX5?
I work for an international fastener company and we do manufacture those kind of parts here in the UK similar to the ZLoc item above. All new designs need to be modeled in NX now rather than the incumbent CAD software at that site (Pro-E I think...)
Some are machined and some are rolled but all of them need to be modeled correctly. Appreciate all your advice with the modelling Thank you.
Rob.