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Please help me with a problem I'm having with creating a Part using existing an existing Part. I attached a file for your review.
So here is my goal: Create a new part within assembly. Make it the Work Part. Select multiple surfaces on another Part in an assembly and offset the faces by 0 (zero). Then I want to thicken this surface a small amount to create a solid. I would then hope to convert this solid to sheetmetal and hopefully unfold. The issue I'm having is once I activate the Work Part to start selecting surfaces I can not reference other faces in the assembly. The only option I get is Faces/Current Work Part. I even tried copying the part I want to reference into the Work Part and I still cannot select faces. If I work within the referenced Part I of course can select the faces, create a surface. though thicken fails. I went so far to try to copy those features and past into the Work Part, and of course this didn't work. What I need is to separate the created part/features into its own part file for production.
So I also decided to try to create two separate curves between top and bottom surfaces - loft/sweep the two curves and then offset. The problem is the edges are complex due to cut I made (some surfaces are straight cut - the other surface is tapered). I saw a post where someone asked for NX to allow 3D sketches like SW. I agree. In SW I would select the edges - choose convert edge. Is there any function like this in NX? I want to do the first option above, but I'm open to solutions.
Another thing I noticed when selecting faces in Reference Part to create an offset surface NX automatically selects all tangent faces. I want to select only the faces to create a surface. Any help?
What I want to represent with this part is paper being attached to all of the surfaces. I would like to unfold this to create a 2D profile so we can use it as a profile to cutout paper.
Thanks
PS Please help JohnRBaker!!!
So here is my goal: Create a new part within assembly. Make it the Work Part. Select multiple surfaces on another Part in an assembly and offset the faces by 0 (zero). Then I want to thicken this surface a small amount to create a solid. I would then hope to convert this solid to sheetmetal and hopefully unfold. The issue I'm having is once I activate the Work Part to start selecting surfaces I can not reference other faces in the assembly. The only option I get is Faces/Current Work Part. I even tried copying the part I want to reference into the Work Part and I still cannot select faces. If I work within the referenced Part I of course can select the faces, create a surface. though thicken fails. I went so far to try to copy those features and past into the Work Part, and of course this didn't work. What I need is to separate the created part/features into its own part file for production.
So I also decided to try to create two separate curves between top and bottom surfaces - loft/sweep the two curves and then offset. The problem is the edges are complex due to cut I made (some surfaces are straight cut - the other surface is tapered). I saw a post where someone asked for NX to allow 3D sketches like SW. I agree. In SW I would select the edges - choose convert edge. Is there any function like this in NX? I want to do the first option above, but I'm open to solutions.
Another thing I noticed when selecting faces in Reference Part to create an offset surface NX automatically selects all tangent faces. I want to select only the faces to create a surface. Any help?
What I want to represent with this part is paper being attached to all of the surfaces. I would like to unfold this to create a 2D profile so we can use it as a profile to cutout paper.
Thanks
PS Please help JohnRBaker!!!