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NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

(OP)
An offset surface can be of a cylindrical, bsurface, planar, etc.  How can I query an offset surface using NX Open and determine which type it was offset from?

Or can I?

Thanks,
Jeff

RE: NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

I've not tested it, but I'd try to get the face of the parent feature and use UF_MODL_ask_face_data to get the face type.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

(OP)
The faces I want to query belong to a dumb body, so there is no parent feature.

Jeff

RE: NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

Is the offset surface a feature or part of the dumb geometry?

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: NX Journal - Offset Surface Base Type

(OP)
No, but when I query the face "manually", using information->object it tells me it is a "trimmed offset" surface type.  I have many of these trimmed offset surfaces and the opposite face (using information->object) is always a different type (cylindrical, Bsurface, conical, etc).  Based on this it appears that the offset surface is "based" on a particular face type - so I was wondering if there was a way yo figure that out.

As a workaround, it seems to respond to AskBsurf... functions (so it treats it as a bsurface regardless) but I was hoping there was more intelligence in the surface definition that I could probe.

Jeff

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