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  1. zilla74

    Extruding text to a sharp edge with taper.

    Create the Text using Insert > Curve > Text Extrude hte Text without any draft Then apply the draft after using Draft from edges. You may need to play around with the draft settings between True Draft and Isocline Draft. Also, you may need to apply draft independently as sometimes certain text...
  2. zilla74

    Surface exactly between two other surfaces

    You can do the following in NX. What you will utlimately use is the Mid Surface Command (Insert > Surface > MidSurface > ...). I thought you might be able to use this function directly on the 2 faces, but it seems the function is looking for a solid to find the face pairs. So perform the...
  3. zilla74

    Interpart expressions

    That is absolutely NOT true that iman does not support interpart expressions. It most certainly does. Just make sure when the files are imported into iman or exported from iman that ALL of the assembly that contain interpart expressions are importe/exported together. Otherwise you will have...
  4. zilla74

    Non circular/rectangular pattern

    Dear Mike, Ben's suggestion is a good one. You might be able to find out some good info from John Baker. He is the best. But, unfortunately from my experience there is no capability in Unigraphics such as that you described in Pro/E. Funny that even SolidWorks has this capability that UG...
  5. zilla74

    transforming free form circular arrays. UG v17

    Dear Scrimy, Everyone has the WAVE geometry linker capabilities. This capability is standard in Unigraphics. You are required to turn the capability on by opening your ug_english.def file in the UGII subdirectory. Find the string called Assemblies_AllowInterPart: and set it equal to yes...
  6. zilla74

    transforming free form circular arrays. UG v17

    I have described below one method that I know of. I'm not sure if the article you were referred to mentions this but here goes: Create your freefrom geometry in a seperate part file. This part defines that exact freeform shape that you with to array. In a new part file, that will be the...
  7. zilla74

    Useful Unigraphics Documentation Location

    Hello All, I see a lot of questions asking where to find documents with UG tips and tricks. One good place to go is the EDS support site. The support center puts together a quarterly document called GTAC-Quarterly (formerly TACTALK) that has a lot of usefull info. Here is an email that I...
  8. zilla74

    Catia versus Solidworks, Solid Edge and I-DEAs?

    To be quite honest with you. The solution you should be looking at that with out a doubt, satisfies all of your concerns, is Unigraphics. Unigraphics is one of the longest stanging products in the industry and is still progressing as a product above and beyond the other solutions. Unigraphics...
  9. zilla74

    PROE vs Unigraphics vs Solidwoeks vs Catia

    I am currently using Unigraphics, ProEngineer, Catia V4 and V5. In my opinion, Unigraphics is the best tool. It is the most robust, most stable and most flexible tool available. There is no other tool that can handle customer data easier than Unigraphics. As a design tool, Unigraphics is the...
  10. zilla74

    PROE vs Unigraphics vs Solidwoeks vs Catia

    I use Unigraphics, ProEngineer and CATIA V4 and V5. All systems have their good and bad points. I my opnion, Unigraphics is the best. It is the most robust, most reliable and most flexible. You can use parametrics if you want to but if your work does not require parametrics then you don't...
  11. zilla74

    Unigraphics magazine

    The Unigraphics global technical access center is truly a great repository for helpful unigraphics information. Aside from that I have found CAD Potential to be an excellent resource web page. (www.cadpo.com). CAD Potato is also a great site (www.cadpotato.com) If you are looking for other...
  12. zilla74

    Unigraphics for Injection Mold Design

    I have used Unigraphics and the Mold Wizard quite extensively over the past years. I was even involved in helping to define requirements for the Mold Wizard product. Unigraphics and Mold Wizard are top notch tools for injection mold design big and small. Unigraphics is unprecidented in its'...

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