Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
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Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
So I just finished off a really unpleasant design project. Had to convert over 13,000 thousand poor quality unparametized studio sheet bodies into a solid. And by poor quality, I mean 80% of these sheets don't lineup edge to edge.
Sewing the sheets as is resulted in the image below. Took me over 3 weeks of recreating all the surfaces to finally obtain a usable solid body.
Can anyone think of a faster way of doing this ?

So I just finished off a really unpleasant design project. Had to convert over 13,000 thousand poor quality unparametized studio sheet bodies into a solid. And by poor quality, I mean 80% of these sheets don't lineup edge to edge.
Sewing the sheets as is resulted in the image below. Took me over 3 weeks of recreating all the surfaces to finally obtain a usable solid body.
Can anyone think of a faster way of doing this ?






RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
Insert -> Offset/Scale -> Sheets to Solid Assistant...
Check the NX Help documents describing this function as it might provide you with some helpful tools and options.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
This particular topic got me to log in and write my similar experiences.
Especially step translation is a sore topic to our company. After translating oem parts or other commercials that have proE origins we face issues. Truth is that garbage in garbage out applies. Usually when these parts have been exported to step there are sheet bodies already created to that step file. After this you can't easily just import the part to nx as solid bodies.
Sheets to solids assistant is not helping in automotive or cast parts and some tolerances are wrong and surfaces flipped. There are programs that can fix these easily but they are external to Nx and extra effort to use for normal users.
While responsible party sees translators working as intended, we would like to see the translators work directly from sheets to solids with no sewing and surface work.
Nx version is irrelevant in this case. We use 7.5 and same applies to all newer releases too.
It would be nice to hear what kind of workflows others have treating and importing these kind of models and how you manage to serve yur business in a robust way when they request to have a broken model fixed.
First post and a really long one... :)
NH
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
My advice it to learn to get good at recreating surfaces. However, it's usually wise to talk to the orginator of the data first and explain (not complain) what's going on and see if they're willing to help out a little bit to ensure you end up with a quality model that's usable. It might be all for nothing, but it's worth a try. Insinuating that you may have no other choice but to change their math usually gets their attention pretty quickly.
Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
RE: Help Converting Thousands Of Horrible Sheet Bodies To A Solid ( see jpeg )
I use this tool alot for resurrecting flipped out sheet bodies. If you started with something that was not too bad, it might fix all the little bugs. NX8 tool.
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