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Surface help
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Surface help

Surface help

(OP)
What's the easiest/best way to accomplish what I'm trying to do here? See pic, All I want to do is take park of the surface geometry, and create a casting riser out of it that ends up in a rounded sphere. I want a smooth transition, from the part surface (the cross) to a sphere. The left is my result, which looks like garbage and on the right you see the surface I'd like to connect the sphere to, just thickened. Thanks for your help! NX 10


RE: Surface help

Quick Example...
Of course you need to match this to your base sketch...

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
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: Surface help

Or with a complete smooth transition....

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
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: Surface help

(OP)
Thanks fir tour help. It really helps coming from a sketch vs an extrude.

RE: Surface help

Try "through curves" command. It will give you even better shape if you adjust tangency/curvature to sphere face.

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RE: Surface help

(OP)
With TC, you always need to connect the bottom shape with the top shape with guide lines, correct?

RE: Surface help

Quote (Miyamoto12)

With TC, you always need to connect the bottom shape with the top shape with guide lines, correct?

No, that's Through Curve Mesh. Through curves will work with two curve sections (no guide lines). If you want the result to be tangent, you will need existing surfaces to reference (i.e. you would need to make the spherical cap surface before the through curve surface).

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RE: Surface help

(OP)
great thanks!

RE: Surface help

Here the result of using Through curves with G1 tangency to the sphere....

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
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

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