Dividing a solid and retaining both sides

[Cammotion]

OK, we wanted a forum, so I'll get it started. This is a modeling question in NX5:

Is there a way to split or divide a solid without losing it's parametrics? I know you can split them with a plane, a surface etc, but that requires you to choose which side to retain, you can't keep both. As far as I can tell, unless you have the mold or die package, you can't keep both parts and still keep the parametrics.

The way we do this now, is to extract a copy of the model, split the original, keeping say, the left side, then split the copy, keeping the right side. Thoughts?

[camster]

The method you described is the only way in NX5 to do this. IN NX6 you can SPLIT and keep things associative!

[Cammotion]

Originally Posted by camster The method you described is the only way in NX5 to do this. IN NX6 you can SPLIT and keep things associative!

Thanks, John

I'm glad to hear NX6 will have the capability. We are getting Team Center Engineering 2005 in a couple weeks, so that we can run NX6. I can't wait to see what's new.

[Mike Stevenson]

Originally Posted by camster The method you described is the only way in NX5 to do this. IN NX6 you can SPLIT and keep things associative!

That's true for NX6, I tried it today. Not sure about NX5, I will check it out.