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NX 8 Wrap on a Curved Surface
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JohnRBaker
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Without seeing at least a picture of you model, I can't say, but from your description, I suspect not.
Note that for NX 10.0 we have enhanced the Curve Wrap/Unwarp function so as to also support so-called 'Developable' surfaces, a special type of 'Ruled' surface, as well as letting you use surfaces with multiple faces.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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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.
Note that for NX 10.0 we have enhanced the Curve Wrap/Unwarp function so as to also support so-called 'Developable' surfaces, a special type of 'Ruled' surface, as well as letting you use surfaces with multiple faces.
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.
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I put a screenshot of what i am saying. I want to wrap a planar airfoil to a curved revolve surface.
I tried coordinate conversion. I put 100-200 points on the planar airfoil then convert it to the points on the curved surface. But throughpoint spline is not good enough to match the initial airfoil i created. And also journal creates hundreds of measurements to get point coordinates to convert. That is very slow
I know there is not any wrap ability of NX that can do this. But is there any way of wrapping a spline to a curved surface exactly, not approximately? The only way i can think of is the way i told above. Get coordinates of the 2D spline then convert it to the surface coordinate frame then create a new spline from those points. Throughpoint spline is not good enough , and if i use linear segments i should have thousands of points which is impossible.
I tried coordinate conversion. I put 100-200 points on the planar airfoil then convert it to the points on the curved surface. But throughpoint spline is not good enough to match the initial airfoil i created. And also journal creates hundreds of measurements to get point coordinates to convert. That is very slow
I know there is not any wrap ability of NX that can do this. But is there any way of wrapping a spline to a curved surface exactly, not approximately? The only way i can think of is the way i told above. Get coordinates of the 2D spline then convert it to the surface coordinate frame then create a new spline from those points. Throughpoint spline is not good enough , and if i use linear segments i should have thousands of points which is impossible.
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