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wire cutting drawings without splines

wire cutting drawings without splines

wire cutting drawings without splines

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Hi Everyone
We are using UG NX 6.0, when we make a wire cutting drawing using UG the profile outputs as a spline, is there any way to make this output as lines and arcs instead? it mostly happens with blocks that have 3D shape on them. Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

Smitty
www.changes-consulting.com

RE: wire cutting drawings without splines

My personal fix has always been to re-draw at some level. I'm not aware of any automated way to fix that.

While you can use "simplify curves" to get basic lines and arcs from splines... they are typically a pain to use for generating G code. Just too many tiny entities.

If you chose to trim the surfaces from clean basic 2D curves when making the blank or strip... it may walk through the drafting more cleanly. It's been a while for me and I'm not remembering a lot of detail though. Sorry.

Dave
Automotive Tooling / Aircraft Tooling / Ground Support Structures

NX9, Win 7 Pro SP1

RE: wire cutting drawings without splines

I think there is a second party software that will do what you want, if I can remember what it is I will tell you.

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