subtracting non touching solids
subtracting non touching solids
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when i subtract 30 taps(coned cylinders) from a solid, and one is not touching the solid, it will still remove the solid. in nx3 if the target didnot touch the tool...the tool would stay and not be removed. in nx7.5 it is still pArt of the "subtract" but there is no "flag" to let me know it didn't touch.





RE: subtracting non touching solids
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RE: subtracting non touching solids
RE: subtracting non touching solids
RE: subtracting non touching solids
Actually there is
After you complete the operation, which BTW is considered as completely valid, if you look at the Part Navigator you will see that the feature will have a little Yellow 'alert' flag on the feature Icon, and if you allow your cursor to hover over the name of the feature a message will appear indicating something like "One of more tools did not intersect the target." Now you can also turn on an 'Alert' column in the Part Navigator and this message will be seen there as well.
BTW, just so that you know what's actually happening here. If you had only ONE Tool body and it missed the Target the Boolean would fail. Also if there were multiple Tools and and they ALL missed the Target it would once again fail. However, if there were multiple Tools and at least ONE of them did intersect with the Target then the Boolean will complete with the only feedback being what I described above in Part Navigator. The rational is that since at least one of the Tool bodies did result in a valid result, we're NOT going to cause the enter operation to fail. Besides, this makes update more reliable since the condition where one of the Tool bodies no longer intersected with the Target, but others did, might be the result of some edit operation so again, as long as at least a Boolean CAN be performed, we're not going consider it a failed update.
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RE: subtracting non touching solids
In nx3 I would subtract my screws (hundreds) by clicking "select all" after filtering my color for taps. If the tap didn't hit the target then it went to another plate/casting and I continued.
The part navigator cannot be sorted like the Assy. Navigator. If I could sort by alerts it would be easier to find these issues.
Ps. what's BTW?
RE: subtracting non touching solids
If you are concerned about being able to use the tools for futher operations, why don't you just set it so that they are kept? That way you could still subtract all from whatever solid you are working on, and the tools that would not have been used in any one operation would still be available for another operation.
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RE: subtracting non touching solids
RE: subtracting non touching solids
This way the model is far more stable when editing, move the 300 toolbodies closer to the target in NX3 and the missing feature is still missing. In 7.5 is will appear as soon as it can.
RE: subtracting non touching solids
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
UG/NX Museum: http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: subtracting non touching solids
thanks again