How to Let NX Know the Starts and Stops for Centerline Length Measurement

Submitted by CoryLink on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 08:47
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Journaling / NXOpen API

I asked a question on some ideas how to do the measurement to get the distance between the 2 components on an assembly file a few days ago. I did some study on some of the issues and I would like to understand some of the possible ways to let the program knows when to start and to stop a measurement.

In my example, how can I let the program know the left housing is a starting point, and the right housing is stopping point? There are multiple branches.

Example image: http://i67.tinypic.com/262bl1e.png
Previous question: http://www.nxjournaling.com/content/get-distance-between-2-parts-assembly

NXJournaling - Tue, 02/21/2017 - 10:50

You will need to create or extract curves that represent the path from the first housing to the 2nd housing; once you have the curve(s), you can use the "measure length" command to report the length of the curve(s).

CoryLink - Tue, 02/21/2017 - 11:07

Can you provide some methods or sample code to do the extraction? My first thought: there might be something to let the application know that left-housing cut the tube at point X and the right housing cut the tube at point Y (In the future, I would like to extend to also other components, not just the housing), however, what kind of criteria to determine the intersection for the 2 components to the tube? Anyway, I will do some sample code to see if I can solve the problem when I get home.