Arrays / Instances within sketcher
Arrays / Instances within sketcher
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Hi all,
I'm fairly new to Unigraphics software, having converted from Solidworks with my change of jobs. I'm now using NX6, which on the whole is a much more complete piece of CAD software. However I do find the odd oversight.
The problem I am having at the moment is that i am creating a sketch to apply a graphical layout of LEDs on the front of a button. This is going to be made up from circular and linear arrays of LEDs.
Inside of sketcher, is there really no way of creating arrays of sketch components? If not, seems like this is an obvious trick missed. I'm resorting to creating lines and curves and using instance geometry, which works, but seems a bit over complicated.
Perhaps I've just missed something. Although if i haven't perhaps this could be considered for future releases.
Thanks,
Mike
I'm fairly new to Unigraphics software, having converted from Solidworks with my change of jobs. I'm now using NX6, which on the whole is a much more complete piece of CAD software. However I do find the odd oversight.
The problem I am having at the moment is that i am creating a sketch to apply a graphical layout of LEDs on the front of a button. This is going to be made up from circular and linear arrays of LEDs.
Inside of sketcher, is there really no way of creating arrays of sketch components? If not, seems like this is an obvious trick missed. I'm resorting to creating lines and curves and using instance geometry, which works, but seems a bit over complicated.
Perhaps I've just missed something. Although if i haven't perhaps this could be considered for future releases.
Thanks,
Mike





RE: Arrays / Instances within sketcher
Can you upload a picture of what you are hoping to achieve?
It sounds like you're halfway there by mentioning Instance Geometry - Without seeing your case we can't really advise..
The ability to array has been kept out of sketcher (to the best of my knowledge) to keep things simple, sketches can be hard to constrain - duplicating information inside the sketch will only make this worse.
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RE: Arrays / Instances within sketcher
That's great news about array functionality within Sketcher. Thanks.
RE: Arrays / Instances within sketcher
Thats great news about the sketcher update. I managed to do what i was trying to using Instance Geometry, just found it frustrating as the work process isn't as i'd have done it in Solidworks.
Its handy to be able to see the arrays and things in one place, so I can fine tune the design on the fly, rather than have to edit multiple features. If that makes sense!
Cheers,
Mike