NX4 sweep help

[nofrills]

Situation

I am currently working on a fuel distributor assembly. In this assembly I have to rotate a small tank 180 degrees so that the hose connector goes from being on the right side (top of the tank) to the left side. So once I performed the simple rotate task the hose is disconnects.

Question

So my question is… is there a way for me to change the sweep so that I can reconnect the hose without actually re-drawing. This hose is rather all over the place and it would be a pain in the rear end to re do everything from scratch when all I would like to do is move one end of the hose 4 inches to the left.

Also another annoying thing

When I highlight a hose that I would like to move all the other hoses highlight as well. I have tried exploding them but nothing works. Any way that I can somehow move one hose without moving all the rest?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Without at least seeing a picture of your model, it is going to be very difficult to make any useful recommendations. Also we would need details as to how you modeled these hoses.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

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[nofrills]

JohnRBaker

That's the problem this is not my work. This assembly has an older assembly embedded. It is a one big massive blob of parts within parts.

I would love to provide you with a picture of the model however I cannot for legal purposes.

 

[hudson888]

For a start is sounds like the hose is part of an assembly of sorts. That could be why when you move one then you move them all. I that case you need to tackle the geometry of the hose itself in 3D space by linking some target objects for the start and end of the hose and then altering the hose itself to meet those end conditions.

Now hoses are generally just tubes which you can create by using the tube function. All that you need to drive a tube is the centreline of its path and you can specify ID and OD and all things being equal get a result.

If the hose is not just a simple tube then we'll need to try a little harder, but the case may be that using a sweep is making a simple task more difficult than it need be.

Let us know how you go or post a model or something that we can actually address the question in relation to if you're stuck. I guess if you can't share it and haven't described it enough to make us think of any other solutions then how can we offer a better answer?

Best Regards

Hudson

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