Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
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I have a solid body that is sitting on top of a sheet body, and I need them to be combined/united/sewn/stitched, so I can later get a continuous mesh in fem. What is the best way to do this in modeling? I know I can combine two solid bodies with unite and sew, and two sheet bodies with sew, but what about one solid and one sheet body?





RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
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RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
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RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
1. Extract the faces of the round part: OD, ID, and top face Insert -> associative copy -> extract
2. Put a hole in the sheet body the same size as the OD of the round part. The easy way would be to trim to that face
Insert -> Trim -> trim body -> the flat sheet as the "target" and the extracted OD as the "tool body" -> flip the "direction" if the wrong side got deleted
3. Sew those sheet bodies together ("Hide" the original solid body)
Insert -> combine -> sew
RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
But looking at your picture(s) you need to understand that there is NO WAY to combine those two bodies, one a solid and the other a sheet body, into a single body, at least not in NX Modeling. You should just create a shell mesh of both bodies without any overlap and then use the FEM software to 'stitch' the two meshes together.
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RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
Would I be able to use "Surface coat of 2D elements" instead/in addition to stitching?
RE: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
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: Uniting a sheet body and a solid body
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