Try this for an approach. My company is still on NX4, but the solution should still be valid using Assembly Constraints, rather than Mating Conditions. Align the two components centrelines and Mate or Distance two faces of each component as before. Then select the ‘Angular’ constraint, and from...
However, the pub over the river is always a better bet for food and intra-comapny networking. The beer's better too.
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Nice to see the Red Lion is still going. I used to frequent the premises when I was at IAD - but only once a week!
Yes, the part very much exists: consider the example of a casting and a machined part made from that casting. The casting is a child of the machined part, linked together by WAVE or promotion (see separate thread running at present). The casting has to be designed and procured, but does not...
It is a long time since I last looked at the front end of a Dallara, so could you refresh my memory. As I recall, the rocker has two pushrod pick-ups, the rocker shaft is orientated across the car and the rocker is free to move axially along the shaft, but constrained by a stack of disc springs...
I have a similar constraint on drawings, except that the defaults are 18mm and 12mm. This is easier to achieve, as I can set the grid spacing to 6mm and use the snap to grid option. This then produces very tidy drawings with no extra effort on my part, which is good.
The default settings that...
Thanks for that – looks just the ticket. I haven’t used GRIP for years, but I know people who have, so I’ll give it a go and get it modified for the suppressed parts.
977 parts from 12000 is a fair reduction. That means there are merely 977 parts to...
I usually work in large assemblies, typically 5k to 10k parts count. What I have been unable to determine is the number of individual part numbers contained in those assemblies. Some of those part numbers, say for standard parts, will be used in several branches at different places in the...
Looking at the picture, there are some nasty little offsets in the pick-ups at the outboard end of the LCA, and probably the axis of the spring won’t coincide with the axis of the strut, usually due to clearance issue with the tyre. Also, the spring will exert an offset load on the spring...
This topic is interesting in that it opens up the sketcher versus feature-based modelling debate. In the days of yore, when I first started using UG (V9? – it’s so long ago…), the recommended technique was to create a single primitive and everything below it was a feature (bosses, holes, grooves...
I finally got some time to evaluate your suggestions, and the final solution is attached. I couldn’t get a fully associative datum plane that covered all the wheel positions (different front and rear ride heights, different front steer angles), but the manipulation required to get an answer is...
Hudson,
Thank you for your reply, which, unfortunately, I won't be able to study until I get into the office after the Easter break, as it is from a later version of NX to the one I have here.
John,
That was the answer that I was dreading. The addition of a value for the angle would give 2 unique solutions – one at the top of the tyres and one at the bottom (or 4 solutions if you consider both sides of the vehicle), but, as you say, there is no way to input that information...
John,
I have copied the relevant items to the attached filehttp://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=14b476ec-c55c-464b-9111-79c7c4f04a71&file=datum_plane_problem.prt
John,
Spot the newbie: this time I read the instructions!http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ade35499-f020-41d6-ad09-7ec47c077bd0&file=01-A-001-A.jpg
