Expiring spline tool
Expiring spline tool
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Has anyone found the new way (in NX 9.0) to create a spline by importing points?
I used to use (and currently can until it is expired) the command called spline from Insert-> Curve -> Spline...
I would then select "Through Points" and select "Points from File". I have been unable to find a new version of this.
Thanks in advance.
I used to use (and currently can until it is expired) the command called spline from Insert-> Curve -> Spline...
I would then select "Through Points" and select "Points from File". I have been unable to find a new version of this.
Thanks in advance.





RE: Expiring spline tool
File -> Import -> Points from File...
...function and once created you can then go to...
Insert -> Curve -> Fit Curve...
...and use this function to get your spline thru points.
Note that this topic has been discussed in some detail in another thread recently:
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=344906
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Expiring spline tool
Will your method mentioned above work IN a sketch environment. We use data files to define airfoils and the now defunct command within the sketch environment as well as outside it to define other features.
We use such spline to define surface areas of internal components for the blades we design. the spline points being defined by other programs we have written to take into account varying wall thickness.
Practically everything we do requires the use of that particular function, and I need to know that there will be some way to adapt these points to the new NX.
RE: Expiring spline tool
It might be a very good investment.
Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM
RE: Expiring spline tool
RE: Expiring spline tool
That being said, why are you even using a Sketch in the first place, unless of course you're working with a set of connected curves that represent the airfoil cross-section?
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: Expiring spline tool
In our other parts, we don't use sketches. these parts have splines read into the three D environment and manipulated there.
However in both cases we use this spline tool which reads in a series of points and places the spline. If we use this new system a series of points are read in and then the user has to connect them using the spline tool, which increases the time for each part a great deal and I have NO idea how I would do the airfoil sections. So I really need to know what is going to replace this functionality.
Thanks for the feed back.
RE: Expiring spline tool
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.