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Draft/Draft body
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Draft/Draft body

Draft/Draft body

(OP)
This should be reasonably straight forward, but it's tools I rarely use in NX. Attached is a simple model that requires 5 degrees of draft on all faces. My question is, is it possible to add the draft to all faces as the model stands in it's current state in one go using NX7.5? I can apply it incrementally by adding draft at difference stages of the model construction (before the blends) but I'm struggling to add it afterwards.

many thanks in advance

Si :)

RE: Draft/Draft body

I would recommend applying the taper before the blends. Is there a specific reason that you need to apply the blends first?

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RE: Draft/Draft body

(OP)
Hi Jeff,

No, just the customer asking if it could be done like that, I would have done the draft first too.

Cheers

Si

Best regards

Simon

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NX Consultant
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RE: Draft/Draft body

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In a later version of NX, the draft command was changed to work more like the "move face" command. It is now able to adjust connected blend faces if/when you apply the draft after the blends. I'm not exactly sure which version of NX made this change, but I do know for sure that NX 9 works this way. Attached is a parasolid of your forging (from NX 9); I split the body with the planar sheet that is in your file, then applied two draft features to the top half and 2 draft features to the bottom half, then united them back together. Six features total to get from your model to the drafted one; didn't get it in "one shot", but fairly minimal addition of features...

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