HELP...vx question

Sorry to ask this on the solidworks forum, but there is not a vx
usenet forum. My question relates to extruding surfaces. In VX you
don't "Thicken" loke you do in solidworks, rather you extrude the
surface directly. I was wondering if anybody here knows how to
specify extruding the surface normal to the original. There doesn't
seem to be an option "etrude 'normal'". What I end up having to do is
extrude the surface in more or less the cartesian direction that I'm
looking for. This is less than ideal for me because it does not
represent what the true solid thickness will be in the final object
(in this cas yacht hulls). Does anybody here know what to do? Thanks
in advance.
-Eli

 

Eli,

You probably won't find anyone here with your answers. In fact, the VX user
community in general is pretty thin. There are a couple of people at
"alt.machines.cnc" that use VX for mold design and CAM.

I thought VX came with about a hundred pounds worth of manuals.


Regards

Mark

 

....... What I end up having to do is

Kinda scary, actually.

iDunno a thing about VX myself, but have you looked thu Help, or whatever
documentation, for "offset"? (Google for VX + surface + offset turns up a
lot of hits.)

 

jon banquer and his seamless, hybrid crapola probably knows the answer to
this. Haven't heard from that dude lately.

 

Thanks. There is indeed quite a stack of manuals provided, but the
descriptions of individual functions aren't that great. The program
can do everything I'm asking it to do, it's really an issue of
understanding how everything is organized in VX. Anyways, thanks for
your responses.
-Eli

 

I know nothing about VX. From the SW viewpoint, you might have to offset the
original surface, then build surfaces between the edges, possibly knit the
surfaces, and finally do whatever it is in VX that tells it a closed set of
surfaces is a solid.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"