Horizontal spline in NX7.5?

[rofofoy]

How to be sure if a new created spline is horizontal, or how can i make it horizontal, in NX7.5?

 

[JohnRBaker]

By definition, since it's a 'spline' there is no way, that I'm aware of, to create a spline and then force it to be 'horizontal', which I assume that you mean inside a sketch since that's the only place that you can constrain any curve to be 'horizontal'. And if you really do wish to have a 'horizontal' spline I guess that it would have to be as straight-as-a-line or it wouldn't be much of 'horizontal' anything, now would it? And if that's the case, why not just use a 'horizontal' line in the first place?

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[rofofoy]

Thanks so much for your response. I was trying to draw a horizontal spline in order to work with it, with both ends of it, in a perpendicular plane.
I see your point and you're right. The reason I'm using a spline in it is because the line, between these two points, is not straight at all. It's horizontal only in one view.

Thank you once again John.

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, if that's the case, try creating a planar surface and then create your spline either by projecting a 3D spline onto what would be a 2D 'world' and the spine would thus look 'horizontal' when viewed from the side or else use the...

Insert -> Curve -> Curve on Surface...

...function to draw your spline on the planar surface thus giving you would appear to be a 'horizontal' line when viewed from the side or edge of the planar surface.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[rofofoy]

Thank you for the advice!!!