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    Design seamless platsic housings

    Many plastic housings that I see have a groove along the seam where the top and bottom of the housing meet. This groove is illustrated in the attached picture of a calculator housing(TI-89). First, is this groove there to prevent a lip that your finger can catch on? Also, is there any way to...
  2. FreeJBird

    Display Material Orientations for CQUADX4 Elements in NX 8 Nastran

    Hi All, Please help me to display the material orientations of antisymmetric CQUADX4 elements. I set the material orientation angle to 45 deg in the "Edit Mesh Associated Data..." dialog box. I then tried to plot the material orientations by click check->material orientations. However, I...
  3. FreeJBird

    Understanding the format of universal files

    Hello! I export a results envelope containing the maximum stress component to a universal file. Now I opened the universal file and I am trying to understand its format/meaning. The .unv file looks like the following snippet and my comments are proceeded by #: -1 #I think this just...
  4. FreeJBird

    Export Element Stress

    How do I export element stress to a text file in NX8? The results file (*.op2) is a binary file and I do not see any docs on how to read it so I have been looking for a file->export->element stress option, but I have not found anything. I need the element stress in order to do some...

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