Merge faces into one FACE? Is it possible? 3

[opetrenko1]

I'm trying to measure wetted area distribution of a sheet body consisting of hundreds of faces.
for this:
1. sheet body is trimmed by a plane (say, x=0).
2. area of trimmed body is measured.
3. plane is moved, say +1" (x=1)
4. GOTO 2.

currently this is done tediously by hand, and not automated with "goal analysis" due to the following
PROBLEM: face measurement feature is not updating, as some of the faces of measured body appear (or disappear if trimming out the other side)

So, hence the
QUESTION: is it possible to make face measurement feature update properly?
OR: combine faces into one FACE. (ICEM, i know, is capable of this)
PS. Geometry is too complex to slice is along and accross to put surface mesh on it...

THANKS!

 

[JohnRBaker]

An update on my PR.

It seems they beat me to the punch as this issue was already being addressed.

Starting with the next version of NX (not NX 8.0, but the next one, which we start beta-testing in April), when performing Edge, Face and Body measurements, the 'Selection Intent' option used will be retained with the measurement feature and will be reapplied when the model is updated and the measurement is recomputed.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

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[JohnRBaker]

An update to my update...

I just installed the latest development phase of the new release, where this issue was resolved, and tested it on your simplified example and it worked perfect.

The only caveat is that you will have to delete the old Face Measurement features and create new ones as the old ones will NOT automatically morph into something which now behaves as you has originally expected it to. Now the old Face Measurement features will still update and give the same results as before, but it will still exhibit the old behavior and limitations. However, if it was working OK for you prior to the changes it will still be OK after words.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.