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Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.
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Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Hello All,

I am trying to create a rib between a flat wall and a cylindrical surface (image attached), but not able to achieve desired result as some material remains on the rib portion which avoids a smooth blend. Please help. Also there is a 2deg draft on the cylindrical surface.



Thanks in Advance.

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

Try delete face or replace face to get rid of the small triangular faces where the rib meets the cylinder.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Hello Cowski,

Is there any other simpler straight forward method like a rib feature we have in Solidworks?

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Hello Cowski,

Thanks for your your reply. I tried to delete faces and it looks good at first sight (Image 1). But when I try to look at the rib from bottom, there is still some material left over (Image 2). When I try to blend the edges you can easily find out that there is not a smooth blend between the rib and the cylindrical feature (Image 3). If I first delete faces and then trim off extra material, it still does not serve my purpose (Image 4). Please suggest.


Thanks in Advance.

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

I'm not familiar with Solidworks.
In NX, the "dart" command might do what you need. Without seeing your model, I'd have a hard time recommending a "simpler" method.

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Ok Thanks for your help. I'll try the dart option.

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

Depending on what you want that transition to look like, you might have to build the top face of the rib with something like "through curves".

www.nxjournaling.com

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

How about removing the draft from the Cylinder. Unite cylinder and rib, then add draft to cylinder face with Synchronous modeling? that should give you the correct transition.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Thanks JohnVincent. Your solution is good enough for me.

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

Yes there is a Rib feature in NX. From NX9 and later.

In this model, you connect a "slanted" planar face to a circular face, what is your expectation of the resulting geometry , should the resulting edge be circular or linear ?

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

(OP)
Thanks Tomas for your Reply. I am actually using NX7.5, so I dont think rib feature is available. Actually what I require is a smooth blend at the intersections i.e. linear where the rib meets the planar face and circular where the rib meets the cylindrical face.

RE: Having Problems Creating Rib! Please Help.

I am not sure if the move edge command is available in NX7.5, but in NX9 it does the job.
I am the kind of guy that always likes to minimize the number of features, so this one is my kind of thing.
No curves or projections, just sketches and features.

Older budweiser
NX8.5 & NX9.0 64bit, hp z820

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