Building volume on a lightweightbody

[JoachimAlly]

Hi all,

Some weeks ago, I experienced for the first time with this software and with your help, I managed to build a 'plastic cap' on top of a skull of a human (see in the screenshot in attachment). Now I want to do exactly the same but with a leightweight body that show a rodent.

This rodent scalp is extracted from a patch-file of Matlab that I converted to an STL-file with the Matlabscript stltowrite and inported in a model in Siemens NX. Now I have my scalp and want to build the cap volume on it.

But how do you do that? I tried to do it by making a sketch on the top of the ligtweight body but that's not possible? Someone has a solution to help me out?

 

[JoachimAlly]

I am now more aware of the true nature of this leightweight body, it is a facet body. Is there a way to make a surface that lays on top of this facet body where I can work further with to make the cap? Is there a way to convert it somehow to a solid body?

I searched on other topics in this forum, but can't find a real solution or alternative.

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

Attached video shows how to use Rapid Surfacing in NX9.
You may or may not have a license.
If you don't, then you'll need to cut sections through the faceted model to then surface.


Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer


NX3 to NX9 with almost every MR (18versions) plus the NX10 Beta

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you're running NX 9.0 you can also use the 'Rough Offset' function to create a Sheet Body from a faceted model by setting the offset value to '0' and adjusting the Deviation and Stepover values to control the amount of detail in the resulting surface.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[JoachimAlly]

Thank you guys for helping me out. I succeeded to do what I want. =)