Split Body ... could be a little more powerful if...

[potrero]

...it behaved like Spit Face, in that you can conduct a split face directly from a curve NOT located ON the face. With Split Face, you can select a remote curve, specify a projection vector, and you're all set.

In contrast, Split Body forces you to use a plane or surface to split the body. It would be quite handy if one could have the option to simply specify a projection vector and create a Split Body using only a remote curve.

Thoughts?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Granted, it would be possible, but these two functions are quite different in how they work once you look at them closer.

In the case of Split Face, what takes place is a simple Projection where an 'imprint' is performed defining the edges of the new face, which it turns out there is a Parasolid command which performs this task in one call. All we had to do within NX was define what we call the 'feature method' which captures the ID's for the parent objects, the options selected and how edits and updates are to be done.

With Split Body, to do something similar we'd have to actually create a sheet body by extruding the curve far enough that it completely bisected the body being split and then perform the rest of the function as if the sheet body had already been created except that we would have to 'hide' it afterwords so that no one knew it was actually there.

Now I'm not saying that this would NOT be useful, after all we do allow you to define planes on the fly, so if you'd like, please contact GTAC and they will be glad to up an ER (Enhancement Request) for you.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[potrero]

John,
This raises another, related (I think), issue... I've never understood why there is a difference in the options for Extrude with Sheet vs Solid bodies.

For example:

A Solid Extrude can be limited to "Selected", or "Extended", etc.

but, a Sheet Extrude is only allowed to be defined by a "Value".

Why? Can this be changed, so that both Sheet AND Solid Extrudes can be assigned the same type of extent constraints?