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How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

(OP)
I have question to you. And your help would be highly appreciated. I'm not so advance in modeling. I have used SolidWorks some time back and this kind of sweeping was easy to made, but when I'm trying to do it in NX - I'm stuck.

What I want to do is sweeping a line around the line to acheive a surface that I can use for spiral route for my another sweep geometry. I have a shaft, irregular shape, and I want to cut a groove around the shaft, but to do that - I need a guide curve.
I need an example how to do the sweeping.
I'm using NX 7.5.3

RE: How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

(OP)
Michael,

Neither. More like this. Look how the worm gear is modeling in SolidWorks. I need to use the same way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q20qSj_QUOM  

RE: How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

(OP)
Michael,

Thanks, but this is no exactly what I wanted to do. I want to create a swept surface in the form of a helical shape and then extract the cross edge, which will be used for another sweeping operation.
An L shape, where shorter arm will be rotated about the longer line. Just like on youtube movie.  

RE: How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

Ok, i've made the swept (the first one, L shape) like in the youtube movie. You need to set Orientation Method in the Section Options to Angular Law then Linear from 0 deg to 1800 deg (=50*360) see screen shot.
I think you can figure out the rest of the model?

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native

 

RE: How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

Sorry correction, it should be from 0 to 3600 deg if you need to have 10 turns.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native

 

RE: How to make a sweep of a line around the line?

(OP)
Michael,

Perfect. I knew it, that this was somewhere in there. Many, many thanks, Michael. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Many, many thanks

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