Edit Surface > Enlarge
Edit Surface > Enlarge
(OP)
Can I control the 'Edit Copy' option in the Enlarge Surface dialog in NX9.
If I'm reading it correctly...
The Help states that by deselecting the Associative Freeform Editing Modelling in preference then deselect 'Edit Copy' in the Dialog I can edit a surface and regardless of whether it is associated to another feature it will modify the existing surface and convert it to a sheet body. (unless it is the Face of eg... a solid, then I would expect a new feature)
I do not want to create a new feature, I want to enlarge the existing
I toggled it off in Customer Defaults (and restarted NX)
Both options add a new Elarge Surface.
I understand the logic in the command, ie if it is associated the a new feature is created, but I want to choose when it does this ... like it was in NX8.5
Thanks
If I'm reading it correctly...
The Help states that by deselecting the Associative Freeform Editing Modelling in preference then deselect 'Edit Copy' in the Dialog I can edit a surface and regardless of whether it is associated to another feature it will modify the existing surface and convert it to a sheet body. (unless it is the Face of eg... a solid, then I would expect a new feature)
I do not want to create a new feature, I want to enlarge the existing
I toggled it off in Customer Defaults (and restarted NX)
Both options add a new Elarge Surface.
I understand the logic in the command, ie if it is associated the a new feature is created, but I want to choose when it does this ... like it was in NX8.5
Thanks
Automotive
EDAG Engineering Germany
NX9.0 TcAE 10





RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
I just tried it on a (Sheet) Body that's not associated to anything and it automatically toggle the Edit Sheet on and I cannot turn it of because it becomes greyed out.
Automotive
EDAG Engineering Germany
NX9.0 TcAE 10
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
I use it to increase the size of the existing sheet not wanting to create a new feature. NX8.5 did it.
I don't want to use Trim and Extend because it adds new edges to the sheet.
Automotive
EDAG Engineering Germany
NX9.0 TcAE 10
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
Note that this is a new feature added to Eng-Tips in the past week or so. But note that there will be a 'paper trail' showing what it is that you edited so you can't use this tool to 'rewrite history' as it were.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
I have moved away from it over the last couple of years and use Untrim, Trim and Extend or Delete Edge.
If you "enlarge" a planer or cylindrical surface, they are no longer planer or cylindrical surfaces to NX.
RE: Edit Surface > Enlarge
Sometimes I can covert that enlarged surface to a planar or cylindrical surface by basing it off different surface (or face) and utilizing replace face and the distance feature within that.
Jerry J.
Milwaukee Electric Tool
http://www.milwaukeetool.com/