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Sewing command will not work...

Sewing command will not work...

Sewing command will not work...

(OP)
Hello, I used bound planes to cap the ends of a piping model and now I am trying to sew them to the model. However it isn't working. From what I can tell bound planes inserted a sheet and I only have the option to sew a sheet to a sheet, not a sheet to a solid body. Can somebody instruct me on how to use this tool?

Thank you.

RE: Sewing command will not work...

Try the 'patch' function. This combines sheets with solids.

Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer

To a Designer, the glass was right on CAD.

RE: Sewing command will not work...

(OP)
Hey that worked, thank you.

RE: Sewing command will not work...

Do you want the caps to fill the ID of the piping to make it completely solid or do you want a wall thickness on the caps? Patching a planar surface over a hollow body won't fill the voids (ID of the piping). You'd need to Extract the ID surfaces of the piping and Sew them to the Bounded Planes then Patch the sewn sheet(s).

Take a look at the attached model - Extrude(5) caps the boss area with wall thickness. If you want the boss (Tube(1)) filled completely but maintain the Tube(0) ID, then suppress Extrude(5) and unsuppress Extrude(3). If you want the entire T-shape to be a solid rod, suppress Extrude(5) and unsuppress both Extrude(3) and Extrude(4). If you want all ends capped with wall thickness, suppress Extrude(3) and Extrude(4) and unsuppress Extrude(5), Extrude(6) and Extrude(7).

There are probably other workflows that could be done using Delete Face and if hollowing is desired, applying a Shell.

TUBING_NX9.prt

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

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