Planes Between Command 1

[pirateincognito]

NX11

Is there a planes between command that creates X instances of equally spaced datum planes between two selected planes?

The equivalent CATIA command can be seen here

http://catiasurfacedesign.blogspot.com/2008/03/planes-between.html

 

[jerry1423]

No, I don't think so.

Jerry J.
UGV5-NX11

 

[NutAce]

Hi,
Please go through the below solution if suitable.
Menu -> Insert -> Datum/Point -> Datum Plane
In Datum Plane, select At Distance -> select planar object -> distance and then your required option Number of Planes will be there.
You can select how many planes need to be created from Number of Planes option.

That is not what he asked for, and it is not associative to the two existing planes, as the number of planes will not be stored in the feature.
He wants to add a number of planes between two existing planes where the distance between the individual planes will be equally and associative distributed, depending on the distance between the two existing planes and the number of planes desired.

There is no Datum-plane function in NX11 which will do this.

The best option would be to create a Pattern feature for it. I have attached a small example. Take a look at the expressions used in the pattern and in the expression editor.
If you change the Nr_Of_Planes expression it will adapt the Pattern to it.


Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[CAD2015]

Catia has this option:

CAD 2015

 

[Toost]

Maybe the correct question is :
When, how and where do you want this function ?
Maybe there are sub options in functions where this is included, No need for a separate set of datum planes.
examples : Section analysis ( surface shape), Section curve-s ( creates multiple sections of a given object.)

Do not take this negative:
Quite often when questions like this, "where can i find function xxx like the one in system yyy", it is because the workflow in system yyy is different to the workflow in NX.
Catia users are "quite happy to use join curves" before using these in surfaces, a command normally not necessary in NX. ( there probably are cases where this is beneficial)
Solid Works and Pro/E users are "happy to convert all curve shapes" into sketch objects before using them, where NX doesn't bother if that shape is sketch curves or non parametric curves or edges of sheets and solids, they can be used without any conversion. ( including a mix of these types.)
This is why i ask where or when you want to create these planes.


Regards,
Tomas