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Help creating edges on a swept body or curved mesh

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Dikuza

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Hello,

I have a swept body that I would like to apply chamfers to as well as eventually dimension off of. The original path was that of an oval, hence the sweep. It's because of this sweep, I assume, that not all lines are considered "edges." In the attached image, the pink line is what I need to be considered an edge and the orange outline is the cross-section that I would like to chamfer around. I also need to be able to snap to these edges when it comes time to create the drawing. I've had similar problems with a curved mesh of an oval-shaped dome. I am using NX 8.5

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=4bd4a655-b082-4c8c-b50e-407cef6213c7&file=2017-01-18_10-34-35.jpg
Edit the swept feature and turn on the "preserve shape" option; otherwise the swept command will approximate your section shape with one or more splines. The sharp corners in the section shape are not handled well by the spline approximation. What you may think are two faces is actually one face that turns a sharp corner. The "preserve shape" option will help keep the faces distinct and keep the corners sharp.

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Cowski,

Wow that was simple, I don't know how I missed that one :/
I swear I looked through all the swept feature settings for that haha.
Well anyways, thanks a ton!
 
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