Proprer nomencalture when refering to I-deas 1

[ubercad]

In the past when I-deas was still owned by SDRC people would use the terms SDRC or I-deas interchangebly to refer to the softaware. Sometimes both (SDRC I-deas). SDRC of course was aquired by EDS, but there are ads out there for jobs looking for people with SDRC expereince (where have these people been?). The last version, revision or whatever of I-deas was Master Series 12 (I think). Some in the industry are currently refering to I-deas as I-deas NX, not to be confuse with NX4, NX5, NX6 etc. which are really incarnations of the Unigraphics (UG) CAD application. Contrary to what some may have been lead to believe I-deas was not "merged" with Unigraphics to create NX. NX, imo, is basically UG with some functionallity from I-deas thrown in there.

I guess what I'm getting at is, what is the official name for the latest version or revision of I-deas? Siemens refers to I-deas as NX I-deas. What is the latest version of I-deas? I certainly hope it's not something like NX# I-deas because I know full and well that engineering managers who often are not end users of these apps could end up refering to I-deas as NX. NX is not I-deas! NX is UG and I-deas is I-deas!

Stop the madness!

John? Your input please!

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[SDETERS]

When I said Three Surface fillet I meant it as putting a full fillet at the top of the rib as per Tim Flater JPG rib circled in Blue. This you can do in I-Deas and I do believe can do this in NX. I do not know NX But I thought I saw this demoed In ugNX6 when I was in Florida for the PLM world. The reason I remember this is because I was wondering how the content Migration manager (To take I-Deas parts and convert them with history to UGNX6) would handle the THree Surface fillet that was created in I-Deas and convert it to what type of part history step in UGNX6. SOrry I am probably getting way off topic.
Raysapp I could tell you how to get what you show in your JPEG in I-Deas (using simple fillet tool By selecting the Vertex point of all three edges), but in UGNX I have no Idea.

 

[hudson888]

rayapp,

The corner setback blend is available in NX as standard and has been for some time. See the attached image. You can manage to create a fairly comprehensive array of softened corners using the technique.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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[hudson888]

nkwheelguy,

I know you can create a three surface blend of sorts under face blending, but it is somewhat limited compared with what I've seen elsewhere.

While we're on the topic of blending and comparing different CAD systems, (which is to say right off the beaten path of the original post), I have attached an image of something which vexes me. What you're looking at is 100mm cube hollowed to 20mm with a 40mm radius in the corner and a single line projected onto the surface. That line has been used as a tangency control in the construction of the face blend. My beef is that the ends of individual blend faces don't remain tangent to one another as you can see. In this simple example the error was up to 2.7 degrees.

This does not just happen for curve tangent blends but for several kinds of conical offset blends as well regardless of how much trouble you go to in making the curves continuous.

raysapp mentioned occasions when you need to surface the occasional face to get a good result, and this is often one of them for me. The bugbear is that surfacing to these low degree arc sectioned adjacent blends is actually more difficult to pull off than when you've a b-surface to work to. Frankly if the system would just work as one might expect in these situations I'd really appreciate it!

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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[raysapp]

Hudson
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. Can't believe it was there in edge blend the whole time.


Ray S
NX 7.0

http://www.appliedprecisionproducts.com

 

[JohnRBaker]

Note that a true '3-Face Blend' will be available in NX 7.5.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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