GRIP Introduction | Features Statement List
This topic covers the GRIP statements used to perform solid body functions. The statements have been grouped into two separate sections, to help you find the specific statement you want as quickly as possible.
Feature Creation operations fall into the following categories:
Many of the creation statements in this section create parametric solid bodies. Any creation parameters (e.g., dimensions of a block) are stored with the solid body and may be edited. Usually the resulting body is associative with any geometry used to construct the body.
Many of the operation statements result in a non-parametric body. Association between the original bodies and the construction curves (or sheets) may also be lost.
The description for each statement explains whether or not the resulting solid body is parametric.
If a Modeling Application statement allows you to specify a distance or angle tolerance value and you do not provide one, the default is the value set in the NX option for Preferences->Modeling. You can read and set these tolerance values using the GPAs &DISTOL and &ANGTOL.
If a Modeling Application statement performs an approximation and that statement does not allow the minor word TOLER, the system uses the tolerance value set in NX.
If you wish to create the image file used to display shaded images of solid bodies, refer to the SOLPIX statement description.
When using feature statements on assemblies, you need to make sure that the operation (or creation statement) is performed on objects in the work part. If the objects are not in the work part, the statement is not executed and an error is reported.