Angle on Swept Surfaces in NX 9

[Jashe]

I've created a swept surface in NX9 and I was wondering if there's a way to angle the sides inward. In catia there is a way in the Sweep tool. I've attached a power point to hwlp show what I'm trying to do.

 

[PSI-CAD]

Hi Jashe,

I don't understand exactly your design, but have a look at the angular law

Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos

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[Toost]

If this is a straight, linear sweep, - use the NX feature Extrude instead.
The Extrude has a "taper" option to angle the sides inwards or outwards using one or several angles.[ degrees]
The NX Swept has no "taper" option but a scaling option which can be used for the same purpose, but it does not allow to set the angle in degrees, instead it uses a "law".

Regards,
Tomas

 

[cowski]

Alternately, you can use the "draft" command to apply taper to the swept that you currently have.

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[Jashe]

Thank you cowski. The draft command worked for me. Though I would like to understand more about the "laws" within that Swept command Toost. Also I was not able to find a "taper" option in the Extrude command. If you want to respond I will indulge but I was able to fix my issue.

 

[cowski]

The draft option in the extrude dialog is shown below. You may need to expand and/or show (click the gear icon in the top left and choose "more") that section of the dialog.

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[cowski]

Here is some info on the law subfunction:

https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/nx/11.0.2/nx_help/#uid:appendices_apx_law_subfunc

Law curves are a related topic:

https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/nx/11.0.2/nx_help/#uid:points_curves_crv_law

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