How do I split a face with a curve? 1

[sabrejim]

I need to take a UG model and split a face to run an FEA job with it. I found that you can split a body but this is not what I am looking for. For FEA sometimes you just need to subdivide a face into a smaller region to apply boundary conditions. I have used Solidworks and they have a simple way to do this, I'm sure UG has one too but I am stumped as to where to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[csbk]

One way:
On a Body, Edit --> Face --> Sub-Divide Face

Make sure a curve is lying exactly on the face to define split.

 

[sabrejim]

Thanks csbk. That was just what I was looking for.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Actually the curve does NOT have to lie on the face. Prior to NX 4 the curve was automatically projected normal to the selected face. Starting in NX 4, the default is still normal to the face, but you can also use the plane of the curve or any arbitrary vector to define the projection direction, if you wish.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product "Evangelist"
NX Product Line
UGS Corp
Cypress, CA

http://www.ugs.com