Sweep along guide
Sweep along guide
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Hi,
i was wondering 2 things..
1 is it possible to sweep a solid along a guide string, or just curves?
and 2 (just to be cheeky) how do i set the swept feature to stay in its orientation when sweeping, i.e. i dont want it to be normal to the surface it sweeps along, but stay in the orientation it was created in eg parallel to a datum plane.
Im using NX4, thanks
i was wondering 2 things..
1 is it possible to sweep a solid along a guide string, or just curves?
and 2 (just to be cheeky) how do i set the swept feature to stay in its orientation when sweeping, i.e. i dont want it to be normal to the surface it sweeps along, but stay in the orientation it was created in eg parallel to a datum plane.
Im using NX4, thanks





RE: Sweep along guide
2) for the orientation option, use forced direction
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Best regards
Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)
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The attached contains a couple of NX-5 files one of which is an assembly, and the other is just an NPT thread form. You'll see from these that if you're able to construct a section and four trajectory curves, being three guides and a spine curve, then you'll get as good a result as you might ever wish for.
Good luck with it, and do think about your milling cutter profiles as you proceed since it seems to me that any ball nosed profile ought to be do-able.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: Sweep along guide
could you please be so kind to attach an zip file instead of the rar file , i'm not able to unrar at work.
Thank you in advance.
Greetings
Best regards,
Michäël.
NX4.0.4.2 MP10 / TCE 9.1.3.8_build_0711 / NX6.0.2.8 / NX7.0.0.9
Belgium
RE: Sweep along guide
You know you really ought to get a copy of winrar in your office, or at least look at 7-zip or IZArc, either of which ought at least to be able to open .rar files.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: Sweep along guide
i know about the winrar or 7-zip, but we have a tight IT policy at the factory. Only aproved software is allowed to install. Even if you need to send large files to customers, i have to pull a trick on it, no change to get something like FTP on my desktop
But on the other hand its also good like this, for ex. the conficker outbrake last year has passed us thanks to the strict policy.
Anyway thanks for posting the zip file.
Greetings
Best regards,
Michäël.
NX4.0.4.2 MP10 / TCE 9.1.3.8_build_0711 / NX6.0.2.8 / NX7.0.0.9
Belgium