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Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section
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Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
I have an assembly where I have a part from Catia(rest are NX parts), though it is a solid while taking a sectional view of assembly only the outermost and innermost faces/lines are shown. The same problem appears in 3d part modelling environment.

I have loaded the exact parts and same problem persists.
Is there a way to solve this?

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

I just had a similar case.
Please have a closer look at the part that has the problem;
Make it displayed part.
In my case I had intersecting bodies in one part. The part had an intersecting wave-link body.

Now go to Assemblies / Reference Sets and pick "Model"

You will probably see more than one body selected.
In that case de-select the wave linked body(ies). Make sure you now have only one body selected in the "Model" Reference Set.
Now return to the top assembly and hopefully no more "hollow" parts are visible.

In the View Section Dialog you can Check [V] "Show Interference" under the "Cap Settings" tab. If an interference is still present, the cut face will be highlighted in red instead of green (or hollow).


I hope this helps you.
It helped me. GTAC Benelux was very helpful. smile

Greetings,
Frank

2x NX9.0.3.4 and NX10.0.24 Mach Design
on win7 64bit
NX Beta Tester
1x Solid Edge ST2

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

What Version of JT file are you viewing from Catia in your assembly? I assume it is a JT file from Catia? If it is an older JT file generated from Catia you will see this happen. I can not remember the JT version I think it was 9 (Very unsure on this) that works well with NX. We had this same issues with our Older I-Deas JT data when we tried to view it in NX. To check you JT version you will have to export the JT file out as a named reference and open the JT file with Notepad. The version of JT file will be a the top.

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

You could possibly have solid bodies interfering with each other; one (or more) slightly inside the other

Jerry J.
Milwaukee Electric Tool
http://www.milwaukeetool.com/

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
Thanks Frank, SDETERS, Jerry.

It seems that there were multiple bodies within Catia part in the reference set as you said. I usually keep the interfrence option on by default, but I missed it this time.My mistake.

And my JT file version was 9.5. I learned something new. So I suppose version 9+ catia JTs work well as SDETERS said.

Thanks a ton people...

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
I am getting the same error again now. After the short moment of success, I entered drating where it showed same hollow like surface, so I switched back to the part model, and sectioned the view after checking overlapping of other parts, it showed hollow parts...

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
I reloaded the assembly without saving and the sections were back to normal ie clean solid body sections. Could the file be corrupted or glitch in NX?

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

Pratham,

Does the JT file have a body where the body is not a single color (one or more faces have a different color assigned than the body color)?

If so, please try using File-> Properties - JT file -> Extract exact data" and edit the face colors to all use one color. Then File -> Export JT using the uniform color body to a new JT file and then test the sectioning on that JT file.

Hope This Helps,

Joe

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
@jpetach
The extract exact data is not highlighted, maybe it is already exactly extracted data file.

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

Pratham,

Sorry, the "Extract Exact" step is "only if needed". If the Extract button is not active just continue the process of exporting the unified color test JT file.

Does the fact that you were at the Extract Exact step mean that the JT file does contain differing colors for faces/regions?

Joe



RE: Solid parts are shown as hollow in drafting while taking section

(OP)
@jpetach
No, the faces have same colour but since I had no other option I was giving it a try....

Pratham Shetty,
Daimler Buses.
Using NX 9.0.3.4

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