Hello all...
Back again with a few (hopefully) simple questions...
1. When creating a sketch, I notice that there is no option to select whether the material inside or outside of the sketch is to be acted upon (added or subtracted). In Pro and Solidworks, this option is available. If for example you were to sketch a rectangle on the face of a brick, and wanted to raise a protrusion there, NX knows what to do. But if instead of raisinga protrusion you wanted to *cut away* the material outside of the sketched rectangle, you have to project the edges of the brick onto the sketch tofullyenclose the first rectangle. Am I getting this right?
2.Did I miss it, or is there no option to extrude/revolve on bothsides of the sketch plane? Again, this is a common feature to Pro and SW. I want to extrude a solid on both sides of my primary datum plane, but it seems like I have to make two features to do this.
3. I discovered that by selecting Extrude before Sketch, and defining the sketch from within the Extrude dialog, the sketch is absorbed into the model. I like this approach better than having the sketch hanging around in the solid. Is there any downside to doing things this way?
Thanks in advance for any input...
Ed Acciardi
Back again with a few (hopefully) simple questions...
1. When creating a sketch, I notice that there is no option to select whether the material inside or outside of the sketch is to be acted upon (added or subtracted). In Pro and Solidworks, this option is available. If for example you were to sketch a rectangle on the face of a brick, and wanted to raise a protrusion there, NX knows what to do. But if instead of raisinga protrusion you wanted to *cut away* the material outside of the sketched rectangle, you have to project the edges of the brick onto the sketch tofullyenclose the first rectangle. Am I getting this right?
2.Did I miss it, or is there no option to extrude/revolve on bothsides of the sketch plane? Again, this is a common feature to Pro and SW. I want to extrude a solid on both sides of my primary datum plane, but it seems like I have to make two features to do this.
3. I discovered that by selecting Extrude before Sketch, and defining the sketch from within the Extrude dialog, the sketch is absorbed into the model. I like this approach better than having the sketch hanging around in the solid. Is there any downside to doing things this way?
Thanks in advance for any input...
Ed Acciardi