Hi Isaac Olsen, thank you for your question. Working with reverse engineering in NX is a really cool thing as you do not really need to reverse engineer everything - or anything. NX handles faceted bodies like Convergent bodies that can be incorporated into your workflow associativity. You do not need to reverse engineer more than you need (or at all) - meaning that if there are areas that you need to modify diametrically you only convert those areas. You can also modify your faceted body - all boils down to what you need and what would be you requirements. You have total freedom to define your process here. Now to whats been done in this video: When reverse engineering or handling facet data you need 2 modules in NX Polygon Modeling and Reverse Engineering. For whats being done in this video have a look to Replace Mesh with Face. This converts a selected area of your faceted body (Convergent Body) to analytic shapes that you easily can manipulate parametric. Really speed things up here.
Hi @HopeScreen, ensure that your role is allowing for you to use it (given that you have a license for the option) - set your user role to "Advanced". If not available on the Ribbon at the top - RMB on the Ribbon and check the "Reverse Engineering" option.
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You mention doing it in later versions is easy. But how do you do it? I can't find how to anywhere...on NX 1926
Hi Isaac Olsen, thank you for your question. Working with reverse engineering in NX is a really cool thing as you do not really need to reverse engineer everything - or anything. NX handles faceted bodies like Convergent bodies that can be incorporated into your workflow associativity. You do not need to reverse engineer more than you need (or at all) - meaning that if there are areas that you need to modify diametrically you only convert those areas. You can also modify your faceted body - all boils down to what you need and what would be you requirements. You have total freedom to define your process here.
Now to whats been done in this video:
When reverse engineering or handling facet data you need 2 modules in NX Polygon Modeling and Reverse Engineering. For whats being done in this video have a look to Replace Mesh with Face. This converts a selected area of your faceted body (Convergent Body) to analytic shapes that you easily can manipulate parametric. Really speed things up here.
how can i enable the reverse engineering tab?
Hi @HopeScreen, ensure that your role is allowing for you to use it (given that you have a license for the option) - set your user role to "Advanced". If not available on the Ribbon at the top - RMB on the Ribbon and check the "Reverse Engineering" option.