Hi,
Another day another issue. ![Smiley Happy Smiley Happy]()
I'm still trying to get a grasp of what Alias Surfacing funtionalities are morrored in NX and which are not.
One very simple thing is the CV (Knot) Snap. It's a basic functionality in Alias allowing one to snap a control point to the grid (basically useless and irrelevant for NX as there is no grid) to the WCS Planes or to points, curves, edges etc.
What I want to do is - I'm working on some sufaces which ar derivative of complex geometries. I want to reduce the complexity so I remove all Spans (Patches). I also remove one half of a symmetric part to further simplify (and just mirror in one operation at the very end).
Naturally I notice that the second row of control points from the edge on which I want to have symmetry vary from the first row. (As you know if they are aligned we have a G1 Continuity and in case of symmetry that's all you need to have G2 along this edge after the mirror.)
Now in Alias I would just align the view to the symmetry plane and snap the CVs in x and then y (up/down and sideways, but not in z - closer/further). Done (and mathematically perfect). I don't think I can do this in NX10 (I got it to work by doing it manually, but it bugs me
), but I guess that's what the Boundary Constraints are for. Unfortunately I cannot get them to work. I chose G1 or G2, but the CVs stay put... :/ I also get no CV movement out of the edge symmetry tool...?
1. What am I doing wrong? (maybe a link to a tutorial?
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2. What are the other tools?
I hope someone can follow my chain of thought... ![Smiley Happy Smiley Happy]()
Thank you in advance.