Instancing an edge blend in NX8.5

[bb1982]

Good afternoon to all users,

I'm trying to instance an edge blend using an existing feature pattern as a reference in NX8.5: I've tried all sort of settings but I couldn't get my blend properly patterned! Furthermore, I get a warning message ("Edge blend cannot be patterned without its body patterns") immediately after the selection of the feature to be instanced.
As a final note, the blend is applied on a patterned boolean feature (subtract).
Thanks everybody in advance and...I really miss my "blend all instances" feature!

 

[Xwheelguy]

Carl,

I've played around with Pattern Feature a bit more and for how I would approach your example, I find it just fine. Not sure why the Blend needs to reference the original Pattern and have a separate Pattern?

More examples of how I prefer to use Patterns/Instances. I tend to try to complete as much detail as possible then perform the pattern and a final union. Hope these are useful.

pattern3_nx8.prt

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http://files.engineering.com/getfil...-4dd2-9d28-b75b8de2ff79&file=pattern4_nx8.prt

]pattern4_nx8.prt[/url]

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 8.0.3.4
Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

 

[carlharr]

Hi Tim and John, thank you for the advice.
I'll have a look at these and come back to you.

Thanks agaain! Carl

http://www.jcb.com

NX 8.5 with TC 8.3