Relations between bodies
Relations between bodies
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If I have a Body seperate from my main part (body), is there any way to unite them with relations? Or add relations before or after the Unite?
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If I have a Body seperate from my main part (body), is there any way to unite them with relations? Or add relations before or after the Unite?
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RE: Relations between bodies
By relations do you mean "retaining parameters"?
RE: Relations between bodies
I'm thinking relations similar to other design features, like when you locate a hole or a boss.
RE: Relations between bodies
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RE: Relations between bodies
RE: Relations between bodies
If they are bodies in single part file try using...
Edit -> Move Object...
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: Relations between bodies
But how can I add any relations with Move Object?
RE: Relations between bodies
Maybe a more complex set of guide sketched could also handle orientation changes.
RE: Relations between bodies
To see what I've done, just toggled ON (select the box next to the feature in the Part Navigator) the last 3 suppressed Synchronous positioning features one at a time. Note that the 'Amber' body is dumb and that I used a combination of constraints and dimensions to position to 'Amber' body relative to the 'Light Blue' body. The last two 'features' are dimensions which you can edit to move the 'Amber' body to wherever you wish it to be on that end face.
When crating these sorts of features where you wish to 'move' and entire body, when the function is asking you to pick something like the 'Motion Group' or the 'Faces to Move' be sure that use one of the selection options, like 'Body Faces' or 'Feature Faces', so that ALL of the faces in the body that you're trying to position has been selected so that they move as a single object.
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: Relations between bodies
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: Relations between bodies
RE: Relations between bodies
RE: Relations between bodies
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: Relations between bodies
RE: Relations between bodies
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: Relations between bodies
Now I go into insert part and insert this template part and change the expression to my spline I need.
Now I have two solid bodies on the screen.
In I-Deas we could "join" with relations. So I would make a datum plane on the solid body of the shaft. Then attach the coordinate system of the imported spline to the datum plane of the shaft. So when the spline features moved the spline solid body cut would move with the change.
I can not find a way to attach the solid body part coordinate system to a datum feature on the shaft solid body and keep it associative. We like to use coordinate and refernce geometry to attach dimensions to.
RE: Relations between bodies
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: Relations between bodies
I have had a very similar discussion with another I-deas->NX using company, and the approach in NX is slightly different but i hope as good in the end. If you model everything of your spline setup part around a Datum csys, you can then either copy all features but the D-cys into the receiving part, or define a user defined feature that again contains everything but the datum csys. Then when "importing / pasting" NX will only prompt for a datum csys. Done.
Johns method will produce a "move feature" but should apart from that produce an equal result.
RE: Relations between bodies
The Wireframe Sketch did not move with it. When I click associative I can not have the parents on. So My wireframe stayed then the solid body moved. For what I am trying to accomplish this will work.
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When we tried copying pasting I lost all of our Expressions that defines the spline. I have another post on here about that. So we went to file import part that works well. I think we need to have a coordinate system for our Law curves to come out correctly? Also On Part import is there a way to have associativity when I select the coordinate system. I do not see this as an option but there is many options in NX. I will have to look into user defined feature.
Thanks again both of these posts helped out a lot.