Offset curve - referencing existing lines

Submitted by orangerepublic on Mon, 03/09/2015 - 09:28
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Journaling / NXOpen API

Hi Everyone,

I am currently making a journal to create 3 lots of offset symmetrical curves with a distance of 2mm. I already have a journal working that successfully draws 3 lines which meet at one point however, following sketching of these lines I would like to run a journal that creates offset curves for each of them. I want the journal to be flexible so that if the user changes where the lines start and end, the journal will still be able to reference the lines and create the offset curves.

Is this possible? Ideally, I would also like to be able to change the number of lines that have been drawn and therefore the number of offset curves also drawn based on user inputs.

Thank you for your time and help!

Orange

NXJournaling - Mon, 03/09/2015 - 10:59

If you can get something working in interactive NX, chances are good that you will be able to do it in NXOpen as well.

However, I'm having some difficulty visualizing what your desired start and end states are. It would help if you could send an example part file or at least some screenshots of what you are working with and the desired outcome (info@nxjournaling.com).

orangerepublic - Mon, 03/09/2015 - 12:30

I'm trying to create offset lines for the image below:

http://i.imgur.com/bVTkMWF.png

This is the current program I have which allows placement of up to 4 lines at various hole locations on the grid:

http://imgur.com/delete/2YpVLryC50oMDZx

Thank you for your help.

NXJournaling - Tue, 03/10/2015 - 06:02

When you say "offset lines", I'm assuming you want something like the result of an "offset curve" command, correct? If so, I'm not sure that is possible when three (or more) lines meet at a point. What would the result look like?

orangerepublic - Wed, 03/11/2015 - 12:40

I think I've found away around the problem without using the offset curve command, thank you for the help.