ASSEMBLY CUT

[milancz]

Hi,
I worked an assembly which contains bearings.These were got as "igs" form and from it I made NX part.The parts (bearings) were added into the assembly.
Then I used "ASSEMBLY CUT" to do a cut through the construction.
After I did it some elements weren´t hidden.
Please, see the attached picture.

The pins and screws I was able to hide them by means of "ASSEMBLY NAVIGATOR".But elements of bearing weren?t possible to hide without being hidden whole bearing as well as in the cut.

Please, do you have any idea how to make "ASSEMBLY CUT" and all parts behind the cut were away?

Thanks a lot.

 

[jerry1423]

I guess it depends what you want to do - try this to see if it gives you what you want:
view > operation > clip work section
You can change the section plane by:
view > operation > edit work section

 

[cowski]

Assembly cut wasn't meant to create section views. However, if you want to use what you have you should be able to hide the roller elements by hiding them (what used to be called 'blanking'). Start the hide command and change your selection to solid body (assuming the roller elements are solid bodies) then you will be able to pick just the roller elements and not hide the entire bearing.

If you just need a section view, look into what jerry suggested or a pictorial section view in drafting.

 

[hudson888]

The guys in the software support area would probably say that this is a feature not a bug. The programming does what it says by cutting the assembly including all of the parts that the cut plane passes through. Some elements such as blots and bearing rollers are isolated on the near side of the cut plane that's all you're seeing here. Since the cut plane doesn't pass through them they're unaffected.

On the other hand it is hard to know what you'd use this for that you might not be able to achieve with dynamic sectioning in most cases. I can think of a case where I might use it for animations but otherwise the need eludes me.

Best Regards

Hudson

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[milancz]

Hi,
I must apologize I could't thank to you for your advice.I had a short holiday.
What I want is really "SECTION VIEW".I was a little confusing of using another 3D software in the past (this one solves the problem by using something similar like "ASSEMBLY CUT" in NX).
I haven't noticed the possibility of SECTION VIEW in NX because of using it short time in all.

Thanks to all of you.

 

[JonSelby]

I find the "Assembly Cut" feature useful for creating a sectioned image of an assembly when used with the "Artistic Image" or "High Quality Image" tools.
If you use a dynamic clip for this then the image tool ignores the clipping.

Such images I use for project reports and tolerance builds although I believe there is a tolerance build feature which I need to explore one day!

 

[JohnRBaker]

This capability, creating 'Section Views' of your model, including assemblies, is part of the PMI module (see attached image).

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[JonSelby]

Cool - but I don't be believe we have the license for that!

 

[JohnRBaker]

Call your Siemens PLM Software rep. Trust me, he'll be more then glad to help you with this issue ;-)

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

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.