How do you turn off offset constraint in sketch mode.

[JurgenKreisel]

Thanks in advance.

I was asked by one of our designers if there is a way to not have the offset constraint automatically created when you offset a curve in sketch mode.

Regards
Jurgen Kreisel
Weber Manufacturing Technologies Inc.

 

[MickyV007]

Look in the customer defaults under Curves - Curve Associativity. You need to restart NX before changes will apply.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native

 

[JurgenKreisel]

That does not change the offset constraint created in the sketcher.

 

[tsjaikdus]

what if you rightclick your offset curve and select "remove all constraints"?

 

[JohnRBaker]

What version of NX are you running?

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[JurgenKreisel]

Currently running NX6.0.5.3 but will be going to NX7.5 latest maintenance releases within the next month.
Also running TCUA 8.1 going to 8.3 soon as well.

Regards
Jurgen

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, there are a couple of things that you can do. First there is a toggle on the Sketch toolbar, which is normally ON, labeled 'Create Inferred Constraints'. If this icon is toggled OFF, the offset curves are created, but there will be no relationship between them and the referenced curves. Of you can explicitly removed the offset constraint after-the-fact by selecting the 'Show/Remove Constraints' icon, then selecting the 'Offset' constraint from the list of constraints and then selecting the 'Remove Highlighted' button. The offset curves will remain, but like above, they will no longer to associated to the curves selected as reference.

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[JurgenKreisel]

Thank You John,

That is how we currently do it, but I thought there may be something like the curve constraint options in the customer defaults to be able to control which constraints you want.

Regards
Jurgen

 

[JohnRBaker]

Unfortunately, while we might call it a 'Constraint', since it involves multiple objects at one time as well as options like rounding the corners and such, it actually behaves more like a 'feature' inside of the Sketcher. Perhaps, like some other features outside the sketcher, we should have added an 'Associate' button to the Offset dialog but we didn't want to mislead people into thinking that it actually WAS a feature so we made it BEHAVE like a constraint.

That being said, I agree that perhaps we should add something to the dialog, similar to the 'Create Dimension' option, to control whether the constraint is created or not. May I suggest that you contact GTAC and have them open an ER to that effect.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.