What are the right tools and sequence to use to create a so called imprint or a cavity or a nest for a part that was imported from a STEP file.
Lets say the nest has to be 1mm wider than the part that goes inside it.
And if a part needs to be fully "submerged" inside the nest I want the nest to remain open from the top.
Imagine a ball inside a deep hole. For you to be able to place the ball inside a hole, the top of the hole needs to be larger than the ball diameter.
A simple boolean operation would not do that because if the ball is more than half way in the hole, the top is closing up.
I find it very difficult because NX is new to me.
Emboss body seems to be the right tool but does not work... it fails if I increase the clearance to anything other than 0. Might be related to my specific STEP file.
I somehow need to find the external dimensions of the part and extrude it upwards.
Than use this newly created body and make all the faces of it half a millimeter wider
And then use an assembly cut or some other boolean operation to cut this newly created part from a block of material.
Basically I need to create a tool that I can use to cut the exact shape out of a block.