Flange on extruded feature
Flange on extruded feature
(OP)
Hi,
I would like to make a flange as the image attached, but I can't.
Have you any suggestion ?
Thank you
I would like to make a flange as the image attached, but I can't.
Have you any suggestion ?
Thank you





RE: Flange on extruded feature
First delete the Extrude feature and set SB Flange(4) to the be the 'Current Feature'. Now add the flange that you intended to add originally (I assume that you wish it to eventually align with the other flange so make the angle 96 degrees). Now leave NX Sheet Metal, go to...
Insert -> Synchronous Modeling -> Relate -> Make Coplanar...
...select the bottom side of the flange you just added to the model as the 'Motion Face', select the bottom side the flange that you would like it to align with as the 'Stationary Face', toggle the 'Offset' option in the 'Face Finder' and hit OK. Now go back to the Part Navigator and make the Flat Pattern feature the Current Feature, and you should be all set.
Note that even though the Synchronous edit was performed OUTSIDE the NX Sheet Metal task, your Flat Pattern should still have updated correctly to show the fully developed blank for your Sheet Metal part.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Flange on extruded feature
your solution works well.
Only one question :
Why have you decided to keep separated the sheet metal environment to the modeling application ?
I find some situations where I need to switch to the modeling environment to complete my design and return in the sheet metal application.
This switch and the relative message, it's a little frustrating for our designers, in 8 work hours.
Regards...
RE: Flange on extruded feature
Anyway, this is something that we're all just going to have to basically learn to live with.
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.