If you are doing a stack-up to determine how far off-center a plug inserted into a hole can be, how do you handle it if the plug has O-rings? I have dimensional tolerances on the O-rings, but if the ID is shifted 1mm to the right relative to the OD, will the plug then be 1mm off-center as well...
I'm learning about GD&T out of a textbook somebody had at work and there are questions at the end of each chapter that I assume are meant to be discussions with the instructor. In the first chapter on position tolerance, one of the questions is, "When is it better to use coordinate tolerances to...
I'm working on an inspection fixture for a shaft that has a 0.02 Runout called out on the drawing. I'm not experienced in designing inspection gages and fixtures, so I've been reading up on it and I came across the 10% rule, that inspection gage tolerance should be about 10% of the tolerance it...
I'm working on a machining drawing and one of the features is a hole with multiple diameters (from 15, 18, 20, and 22mm) all along the same axis. Do I have to set a perpendicularity control frame for each dimension or can I set it for the top most dimension and have it apply to entire axis for...
I'm working on a hose routing project and since we're early in the design, the endpoints of the hoses and tubes are changing locations frequently. I've been using the Mechanical Routing application by setting up my datum points, creating a linear path through the points, and then assigning...
I'm currently comparing my assembly model to our real-world BOM, and I wanted to know if there was a way to collapse repeat components together within an assembly (for example, multiple instances of the same bolt), so that I can quickly verify the quantity of each item. Currently, they all show...
We recently upgraded to NX-9, and I've found that if I update something that breaks a bridge curve, when I fix the bridge curve, it disappears. Any later features that use the curve remain broken because I can't select the curve to fix it. When I right click on the feature it doesn't even give...
We just upgraded to NX-9 and I've noticed I'm no longer able to deselect "all of intent" any longer. For example, when I'm doing edge blends with the "tangent curves" setting, if I select a chain of edges that it's unable to blend, when I press Shift to deselect them, it only deselects the one...
I'm making exploded views and taking screenshots of a large assembly for an assembly manual we're making. I want the sub-assembly view I'm working with to be easily visible, but I'd also like the rest of the components dimly visible so that shop guys have a frame of reference when putting it...
I'm working on a manifold that I currently have set up as so:
Four individual runners (swept solids)
Unite four runners
Swept transition section between a sketch and the face formed by the four united runners
So the issue I'm having is that where the solids meet, the faces are only tangent at...
I'm designing a new component (NX-8) for an assembly, and because of the size and complexity of the assembly, it's not really feasible for me to do my modeling work with the assembly as the displayed part. The simpler solution would be to WAVE-link the necessary bodies and faces in, but the...
I've got a part I'm trying to tolerance and I'm not sure the proper protocol of how to set this up. In the part, the hole in the center is as-cast. The O-ring groove and bolt holes all should be in relation to where ever the center of that hole ends up being. We don't really care about the...
I'm drafting in NX-8 and I want to know if it's possible to create a section view that is then broken? I know I can do it by creating the section view and then breaking it, but I didn't know if there was a way to do it in a single operation. Also, doing it this way still leaves me with a giant...
I'm trying to set up the tolerance for this O-ring groove, and the O-ring catalog says the side wall can be 0 to 5 degrees outwards; i.e., the top of the groove can be wider than the bottom, but never narrower. Is there a way to represent this with a perpendicularity tolerance? I'm thinking...
I'm working on a machining drawing for a component that has a lot of linked bodies and faces in it in NX-8. When I create a base view, it has all the reference bodies and such in it, and I can't figure out how to remove them. I tried "View Dependent Edit," but it wouldn't allow me to select a...
I'm running NX-8.5 on Windows 7, and I have an engine assembly that I'm taking screenshots of for a presentation. Is there a way I can use the Clip Work Section tool to cut away the block while leaving the rest of the components unsectioned? I know how to do it in Drafting, but not in the...
I'm recreating an existing drawing in NX-8.5 (Windows 7), and I'm having trouble attaching a datum with an extension line. Here is what the old drawing looks like:
I've tried attaching it to the surface and to the dimension itself, and I end up with a datum that I can't move, like so:
Is...
I created a solid part so that I could use it to create a sheetmetal part (orange in attached photo), which I did successfully. Now I have my sheetmetal part that I want to manipulate further, but if I delete the solid I lose the sheetmetal part since they're parent-child. Is there a way I can...
I'm getting ready to send a part out for vibration fatigue testing, but I've never done this before and I'm a little unsure how to set the parameters. The part is being mounted on an engine and I've already run a test and collected vibration data for the mounting location. Now from that, how...
I'm trying to create a "lofted" solid by sweeping a circular cross section into a square cross section. When I select my two sections, it auto-places the alignment vector origins seen in the first attachment. I want the vector origins to be directly over each other, but I can't figure out how...
