Joining adjacent faces of a solid in NX2 1

[innes]

I'm attempting to combine two adjacent faces in a solid model in order to eliminate an edge that is causing me trouble when meshing for FE analysis. One of the faces is planar, the other is a trimmed toroid; if you imagine a top hat shape, I am trying to join the brim of the hat with the fillet around the base of the cylindrical part. I would like to end up with one b-surface that approximates the two originals.

Edit>Face>Join Face sounds like the right thing, but it tells me "Face is not parametrical-rectangular" when I pick the planar surface.

Insert>Free Form Feature>Quilt looks promising, but I just can't seem to make it work. It distributes points across about half of the area, then just stops and doesn't seem to make any more progress.

Any suggestions?

 

[Xwheelguy]

Try loosening up your tolerances for the Quilt feature & see if you get acceptable results.

I think I have a good idea of what your part may look like. If I am getting this mental image correct, the entire solid could possibly be made from a single revolution, correct? So why not use Join Curve to join all of your curves into one continuous spline & then revolve the spline to create the solid? That should eliminate the edges created with the trimmed toroid.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[innes]

I played with Quilt a bit more and never got it to work properly. I wonder if it only works on sheet bodies.

Join Curve was the answer. I was trying to avoid re-creating the geometry because the "top hat" is part of a larger imported solid (imagine a bit of formed sheet metal with holes in it and top hats sticking through the holes), but in the end it was easier to chop it out and re-create it.

Thanks for your help.




Matt

 

[Xwheelguy]

Yes, Quilt only works with sheet bodies (surfaces or whatever term you wish to use) or sheets that have been sewn together.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com