NX Face Selection Intent Rules 3

Lockdain · Aug 30, 2016

Hello!

I wonder if anybody can explain why do we need the Region Faces selection rule? Which kind of faces this rule is suitable for? Thanks in advanced.

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MFDO · Aug 30, 2016

Think about a painting job face selection. First select a required face and then select the boundary faces where you put masking tape.

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Lockdain · Aug 30, 2016

Hello, MFDO

Could you please provide a pic to illustrate it? Just can't wrap my head around.

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MFDO · Aug 30, 2016

Hope this will help

https://docs.plm.automation.siemens...d1332316:id1332376:parting_extract_regions_rt

Michael Fernando (CSWE)

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Tool and Die Designer
Siemens NX V10.0 + PDW
SWX 2013 SP3.0 X64
PDMWorks 2013
Logopress3
FastForm Advance
FormatWorks

cowski · Aug 30, 2016

@MFDO,
I like the painting analogy, that's a good one.

@Lockdain,
Imagine a complex casting made up of dozens of faces that are not tangent and don't belong to the same feature. If you want to select all the interior faces for some operation, the "region" face option allows you to collect all the faces in a few picks. The "tangent" or "feature" face rules wouldn't get them all and the "single" rule would be tedious. Attached is a very simple example in NX 9. I used the "region faces" of the "extract geometry" command to extract all the interior faces of the model.