From the course: Siemens NX: Design for Injection Molding

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Creating the ribs

Creating the ribs - Siemens NX Tutorial

From the course: Siemens NX: Design for Injection Molding

Start my 1-month free trial

Creating the ribs

“

- [Instructor] So now I want to add in some ribs for stiffening. I'm going to use the exact same method that I did for the bosses. The only slight variation I'm going to do here is I'm going to go into this Mirror Geometry and make that my current feature. And the reason why I want to do that is because I don't want to have to reorder things like I did to get the bosses into place. So this just allows me to insert everything at that specific point in time in the tree and it just makes everything a little bit easier. Now I'm just going to hide this body. I am going to show coordinates system, and the rib height. Create my sketch, select Okay, and draw some lines. Drawing a line here, drawing a line over here, and the third one to frame out the bottom. Now, to get this constrained, I'm going to use these points and say point on line 'cause I want the rib to run right through the center of the boss. You drag this out a little bit, here we go, do the same thing from here to here, here to…

Contents