How to convert to solid a enclosed volumen by surfaces in NX 10

[Fer92]

Hello
I have a couple of dies in igs format, they are composed only of surfaces. I want to obtain a solid from each step of forging. I mean, I want to fill voids or empty volume of the surfaces in order to obtain a solid. I just need only one for each step of forging

So could you give any idea
thanks in advance

 

[SimoBrown]

Do you have only a surface or more than one? In this second case can you perform a SEW of the connected surfaces to obtain only one?
And when you have only a surface, did you try to extrude a rectangle in a solid bigger than your volume (the surface volume must to be totally enclosed in the solid) and trim the new solid with your surface?

 

[Fer92]

I have got this, It´s only the first step

Do you have any idea to convert it into solid?
I have no experience with surfaces.

 

[JohnRBaker]

If your goal is to turn this into a single solid body, you will need to bring the two half's together and then 'Sew' them into a single entity, which if the surfaces form a 'water-tight' object, will result in a Solid body being created. The key is getting that 'water-tight' object, which means that there can't be any 'gaps' or openings. If there are, you'll need to create additional surfaces to eliminate the 'gaps'.

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[NutAce]

You can also use the external translators (in your Windows start menu for NX) and convert the IGES to a part file.
In the convertion settings you can make a setting which will try to SEW the parts while converting.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[Fer92]

What would yo do? either create a new surface between each half part in order to join them or extract the geometry and make it from cero in NX. I tried to dimension it to draw it into NX but I couldn´t get all dimensions. What do you think is the best option?