Out of tolerance error on Intersection Curve
Out of tolerance error on Intersection Curve
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Hi all,
Lurked here a few times to find solutions over the past year, finally bit the bullet and joined when I haven't been able to find resolution for the last few problems. I have a little over 5 years experience with NX 7.5-9, on the brink of switching to 11 but this current issue has been plaguing me constantly for months.
I have a model that has a couple thousand features, and I have to jump around the timestamp features in the tree to perform edits on a daily basis. My issue is, if I'm working at the top of my feature tree, and jump later or to the end, I nearly always get a popup error "WARNING. Intersection curves: Out of tolerance." Not a critical issue as my model will still update all the way to the end and I can pass checkmate checks and baseline/hard release in Teamcenter no problem. It's just a frustrating issue that makes no sense because nothing actually breaks, I just get that yellow triangle and a popup. Here is just about everything I know about this error:
Lurked here a few times to find solutions over the past year, finally bit the bullet and joined when I haven't been able to find resolution for the last few problems. I have a little over 5 years experience with NX 7.5-9, on the brink of switching to 11 but this current issue has been plaguing me constantly for months.
I have a model that has a couple thousand features, and I have to jump around the timestamp features in the tree to perform edits on a daily basis. My issue is, if I'm working at the top of my feature tree, and jump later or to the end, I nearly always get a popup error "WARNING. Intersection curves: Out of tolerance." Not a critical issue as my model will still update all the way to the end and I can pass checkmate checks and baseline/hard release in Teamcenter no problem. It's just a frustrating issue that makes no sense because nothing actually breaks, I just get that yellow triangle and a popup. Here is just about everything I know about this error:
- Happens frequently when editing with rollback (primary edit mode for me) or when making a later feature current.
- Even if I have more than one intersection curves feature, only one of those will fall "out of tolerance" at a time with seemingly no pattern (could repeatedly affect the same intersection curve feature every update, or affect a different one). I have never ever seen more than one intersection curves with this error simultaneously.
- Error resolved by editing with rollback and deselecting one of the parents and re-selecting same parent and hitting OK.
- Changing the tolerance will also fix it (basically any redefinition of the feature will) but the feature is still susceptible to the error in future edits, so not a permanent fix.
- Not fixing the error does not stop a new error from popping up when I jump around the tree again. Only a single intersection curves feature at a time will be affected no matter how many intersection curves features I have in the tree.
- If I use extract body/face on the parents, and then make an intersection curves out of those extracted parents, intersection curves still susceptible to this error.
- No gaps in curves, no changes in curve/spline geometry with this error. Subsequent features retain parents borne of this feature.
- While I strongly prefer the section curves operator, I need the intersection of two sheets and intersection curves is the only operator I know that can do that. Intersection curves can use sheets or planes (among others), but with section curves one parent MUST be a plane. If there is another standard operator that will get me an intersection between two sheets, please enlighten me.





RE: Out of tolerance error on Intersection Curve
the only proposal i have is either delete and create a new intersection , or delete + recreate the parent of this intersection curve.
Instead of a intersection curve, trim one of the two sheets with the other and use the new edge instead of a separate curve.
( Trim body is normally quicker/simpler than Trim Sheet.)
Regards,
Tomas