Hi Anis, well there's certainly no doubt that NX is a very capable program!

Of course with geometry there is such an infinite variety of cases that there will always be cases where some different kind of an approach is better suited for a particular situation.

That's why it is can be nice to have several programs in your toolbox when possible, because there just does not exist a single program that is always without question the absolute best in every single possible kind of geometric circumstance.


One nice thing about NX's result even in the one that it had a problem, is that it actually generated a result that can then be fixed up without much extra work by just deleting the short sections that have the problem and putting in something like Lofts in those areas.

It's not really that great when something just totally fails to generate any result like what you mentioned SolidWorks did for this particular case. That might be due to something in SolidWorks that detects that "bad geometry" was created and so therefore fails the whole operation. That kind of thing has sort of been a problem in parametric solid modelers since very early on in their existence.

- Michael