Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
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Hi Everyone,
If I have a table full of points, is there a way to insert this in to NX Excel & have it create the airfoil profile? If so how?
Thanks
If I have a table full of points, is there a way to insert this in to NX Excel & have it create the airfoil profile? If so how?
Thanks





RE: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
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RE: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
I found the info., but it's still not clear to me on how to set one one up.
I have point clouds at specified radial heights or I have an Excel table with X & Y positions.
Are there any examples to seeh how this works?
Thanks again...
RE: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
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: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
Insert -> Curve -> Spline...
...and select the 'Through Points' option. Then push the 'Points from File' button and select the attached file. This creates a curve which represents the bowl of a wine glass.
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: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
Thanks for the example.
I did create something from the DAT file & I guess it's in a bowl shape. However, it appears to more a a single line entity or spline or nothing like a wine glass.
Is this what it is suppose to be?
As for the table - How to put headers in the columns, without having file read them? Can this be table also be inserted into NX Excel to generate profiles?
Thanks again.
RE: Points Drive Airfoil Profile?
If your points represent airfoil sections, then you will need to create a .dat file for each section and use the technique I described above to convert the points into curves which can then be used to create the airfoil shape as a surface/solid model.
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.