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NX Laminates draping

NX Laminates draping

NX Laminates draping

(OP)
Hi NX CAE experts

When draping composites on a curved surface I get the message:

"Some faces are not contiguous" and NX will not let me drape on that surface.

Anyone with any idea how to get around this? Thanks in advance.

RE: NX Laminates draping

Make the faces contiguous...!

Sorry, coundn't resist. Carry on, I've got nothing..

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RE: NX Laminates draping

Couldn't spell, either.

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To the Toolmaker, your nice little cartoon drawing of your glass looks cool, but your solid model sucks. Do you want me to fix it, or are you going to take all week to get it back to me so I can get some work done?

RE: NX Laminates draping

(OP)
Sorry for my simple question, but english is not my native language. Does this mean that the message is issued when Im trying to drape a face that is not next to the other? (Thats the simple kind of english I understand)

RE: NX Laminates draping

It means that there is a mis-match between faces somewhere on your surface.

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
-Dalai Lama XIV

RE: NX Laminates draping

You need to have surfaces that touch each other, in order to use the unidirectional or woven draping solvers. The shop floor analogy is that you cannot drape a ply on separate molds.

For the projection solver (used to be called None), the contiguous surface requirement was removed in NX8.

If you think your faces are contiguous, it's possible there is a small gap. You can use the NX tools to remove the gap.

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