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NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface

NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface

NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface

(OP)
Hello,

Wrap command works only on cylindrical or conical surfaces, is there a way to wrap on a revolved curve? Say i have a spline and i revolved it. Is there a way to wrap another curve onto this surface?

RE: NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface

Without seeing at least a picture of you model, I can't say, but from your description, I suspect not.

Note that for NX 10.0 we have enhanced the Curve Wrap/Unwarp function so as to also support so-called 'Developable' surfaces, a special type of 'Ruled' surface, as well as letting you use surfaces with multiple faces.

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RE: NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface

(OP)
I put a screenshot of what i am saying. I want to wrap a planar airfoil to a curved revolve surface.
I tried coordinate conversion. I put 100-200 points on the planar airfoil then convert it to the points on the curved surface. But throughpoint spline is not good enough to match the initial airfoil i created. And also journal creates hundreds of measurements to get point coordinates to convert. That is very slow :)

I know there is not any wrap ability of NX that can do this. But is there any way of wrapping a spline to a curved surface exactly, not approximately? The only way i can think of is the way i told above. Get coordinates of the 2D spline then convert it to the surface coordinate frame then create a new spline from those points. Throughpoint spline is not good enough , and if i use linear segments i should have thousands of points which is impossible.

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