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Measure length of tube

Measure length of tube

Measure length of tube

(OP)
Hi,
I would like to measure the length of a tube.
When I create the tube I get the options "stop at intersection" and "follow fillet".
But when I want to measure the length I don't get these options. Why not?

I can not measure the length without these options.

Regards,
Michel

I use NX8.5
HP Z600 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27GHz Dual
Quadro FX 3800 5GB
9GB Memory
Windows 7, 64-bit

Groeten, Michel

www.kvi.nl A leading Dutch institute in atomic and subatomic physics

RE: Measure length of tube

Try measuring the curve of the tube instead of the tube itself?

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX7.5.4.4 + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @2.67GHz)
24.0 GB
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 + NVIDIA Tesla C2050

RE: Measure length of tube

(OP)
That's what I do.
But I can not select the curve following the fillets. It just selects an arc or 1 line.

I use NX8.5
HP Z600 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27GHz Dual
Quadro FX 3800 5GB
9GB Memory
Windows 7, 64-bit

Groeten, Michel

www.kvi.nl A leading Dutch institute in atomic and subatomic physics

RE: Measure length of tube

Hi,
The best workaround for your case is....use CURVE FROM CURVE / JOIN to join the curves (here select the CONNECTED CURVES and FOLLOW FILLET option in the selection filter) This will yield you the curve chain you desire and then you can easily use measure length to check it's length. I know this adds one more step to the measurement process but this is the only option i know.
Thanks and Best Regards
Kapil Sharma

RE: Measure length of tube

(OP)
Yes that works. Thanks Kapil.
Its an extra step but it works at least.

I use NX8.5
HP Z600 Intel Xeon E5520 2.27GHz Dual
Quadro FX 3800 5GB
9GB Memory
Windows 7, 64-bit

Groeten, Michel

www.kvi.nl A leading Dutch institute in atomic and subatomic physics

RE: Measure length of tube

Hi,

I have another question to the tube feature.

UGS NX 8.5.

I'm doing some hydraulic system containing mostly of tubes, adapters etc... I have the skeleton curve geometry in the hydraulic assembly and linking these curves down to the actual components of this assembly.

Hence i have component containing solely of:

Linked composite curve
Tube
length Measurement .

But when I change the linked composite curve (or its origin in the assembly), the tube lose its section string everytime, and I have to select it manually again. Even if its linked only to that one linked composite curve. In opposite in Catia you can select as section string the actual curve feature so that doesn't happen there.

That's simply bad behaviour. Is there some way to improve it? (So when i change the composite curve but it's still tangent and continuos it works?)


Thanks, Jan

RE: Measure length of tube

Jan,

Could you explain in detail how you're creating these tubes? What command(s) are you using? The reason I ask is because if your Tubes have circular cross sections, there isn't a need for a section string - one can use the Tube command and specify the OD (and ID, if needed).

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

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