revolved section

[Alfonz]

I am trying to do a revolved section off a cylinder. I can do the first line by snapping to the quad point (vertical line) no problem. How do I get the second line to go at a 235 degree angle from vertical (0 degrees)? I tried putting a line in at 45 from the center of the circle and the section line won't snap to it? I see no way to define the angle on the hinge line.

Thanks.

Alex

Design Drafter
Alliant Techsystems

 

[Toost]

we need more info to understand the case.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[Alfonz]

Tomas,

Sorry about that, here is what I am talking about.

Thanks.

Design Drafter
Alliant Techsystems

 

[Alfonz]

oops, here is the link...

Design Drafter
Alliant Techsystems

 

[aluminum2]

Try sketching something on a different layer in modeling. you can create a line and define it 45 degrees from an axis. Then in drafting make that sketch layer visable and select the line or endpoint. Then after selecting it, make the layer invisiable.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Well it turns out that in NX 10.0 this is going to be a very straight forward thing to do. We added an additional scheme to create section views on a Drawing, that is to create the 'section line' object as a separate object and then the user would add the actual section view as a secondary operation. The big change though is that these 'section lines' are created using Sketch curves which includes the ability to directly constrain and dimension those curves like you'd do in any other Sketch.

To show you what I mean, watch the attached video to see how you could do exactly what you're looking for using this new 'Add Section Line' function function being introduced in NX 10.0.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[Toost]

Normally when one have a case like this, there is "something" that we want to show in that section view, such as a hole or a ...
If you can pick a point of that "something" in a different view, you can do that.
Or if you set the base view to hidden lines = dashed you can pick a point from the hole/detail there.


Regards,
Tomas

 

[Xwheelguy]

If toost's suggestion above doesn't pan out, I'd go the route aluminum2 has suggested.....sketching the reference curves in modeling for the section lines to follow is optional. You could also make the reference curves in Drafting as View Dependent curves on an unused layer, then turn off that layer after placing the section view.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
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Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

 

[NutAce]

Hi John...

Had a quick look in NX10 and tried the new section line functionality. Looks pretty nifty...
One question though... Why did Siemens make that a separate step? Why not incorporate this in the Section view menu itself?
Must be a reason for but I don't see it...

And with this new function, would it be possible to change a revolved section cut to a stepped section cut for instance?
That is what we have been looking for for many years now...

Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
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Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
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[JohnRBaker]

We actually got several requests to separate the two tasks, defining the 'Section Lines' and placing the views. It seems some people liked the idea of placing all of their 'Section Lines' first and THEN add the views afterwards.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

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

 

[ErickF]

Great improvement!
Thanks to put this function in NX as PTC has put long time ago in ProE. Not in the same way, but it is almost the same idea.