synchronous: pull face, radial distance

[cowski]

I was recently working on a model where I wanted to split a cylindrical surface and offset one of the resulting faces. As 'offset face' would not do the job, I was hoping that either 'move face' or 'pull face' would. There is a 'radial distance' option in both commands which looked promising. Alas, either it doesn't do what I imagined it would, or my selection(s) are incorrect. Can anyone clear up my misunderstanding of the 'radial distance' option?

I have attached a quick example file to illustrate (NX6). The green stepped shaft is what I am after, the grey solid is what I got after some fiddling with options (interesting, but not what I expected). I can replicate the results by using the 'distance' option in pull face, so I think my selections for 'radial distance' may be incorrect.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You would have been better off using 'Offset Region', as I did in my version of your model below.

As for the 'Radial Distance' item, that has nothing to do with how or what you select, but rather is just another method of defining a Distance to move the face, only in this case, by defining the normal distance between a Radial axis and a point. Even if you have gotten it to do something, it would still NOT have given you your desired result.

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[cowski]

Thanks John, that makes sense now.