When you’re taking screen shots for a presentation, project documentation or you just want to have a few different backgrounds for other purposes, navigating to File > Preferences > Background every time, every part can be tedious. Not to mention you have to remember the settings you want for your colors. NX helps by placing some canned backgrounds on the View Tab but they tend to be quite dark with greys and blacks.
Congratulations! Your company has decided that Model Based Definition (MBD) is the way of the future. Moving forward, it’s “easy” to leave behind the drawings and move to an MBD approach by using Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) in NX. But what do you do with all of your current model files without MBD/PMI? Do you create new PMI objects in the model similar to those annotations on your drawings?
In this online seminar wel look at Convert to PMI to convert drafting views and objects directly to corresponding model views and PMI objects. While there is no “easy button” to convert your entire product line or database over to MBD/PMI, as you up-revise your parts, you can easily bring them into compliance with new MBD initiatives your company has adopted.
As well, if you are a machine shop consuming NX drawings and part files, you can easily Convert to PMI to make programming your parts faster.
Check out our video to learn about pitfalls, caveats, and the occasional gotcha when it comes to updating legacy parts with Convert to PMI.
You may, at times, run into strange behavior in your NX model. Boolean will not execute properly, a face rule to pick up tangent faces will not pick up what appear to be tangent faces or body measurements just don’t seem to be correct. You may also notice when you zoom in that you see little spikes or cuts in the model. Sometimes Update Display will correct the visual representation but if the inconsistency remains, there may well be an issue with the geometry.
Examine Geometry can be used to assist in finding the issues with your model. This tool can be found on your Analysis tab, the far right More pull down, Examine Geometry.
With the end of maintenance for NX10.0.3 approaching this November, now's a great time to join us for this presentation on the new NX 11 features. The updated user interface makes it easier to switch between parts you're working on, while at the same time maintaining the last working application of those parts.
For example, if you're working on the drawing for a part in the Drafting Application & need to make a modeling change, switching to the model will also change to the Modeling Application. No longer will you be banging your head against your monitor looking for Modeling tools while you're actually in Drafting. Finding the part you want is also improved by providing a preview of your parts as well as CTRL+TAB to access them.
We presented this webinar on Wednesday, July 12, 2017
In this NX engineering tips article, let’s look at installing and using the Siemens Machinery Library. The Siemens Machinery Library can be freely downloaded by anyone with current maintenance and WebKey. The library contains seed or template parts for common fasteners such as hex bolts, cap screws, nuts, pins and other commonly used mechanical parts. These parts are all Part Family parent templates used to create a family of fasteners of varying lengths and sizes.
NX Routing for mechanical and electrical systems can help with your design by virtually routing and validating your designs before costly build errors. Why guess how long your flexible hose or bent tubing needs to be? Or worse, wait until the system is built and physically measure for placement only to find that it won't fit causing redesign.
By creating a "flexible" hose in NX Mechanical Routing, Override Position in parent assemblies, and using Define Deformable Parts, you effectively avoid using alternative representations (Alt Reps) in assemblies and Bill of Material (BOM) structures.
The flexible hose can be designed as a straight component then modified in context at the assembly level. This allows different configurations in different assemblies without affecting the released flexible hose component.
NX CAD includes new updates, changes, and tools in every release. Work flows and methods that once made sense may no longer apply.
Let’s go ahead and look at 10 best current tips and tricks...
Create a flange or extension based on angle as it relates to a face or vector.
How to save a Siemens NX Log file to send for a support session.
NX Blend Corner is used to clean up existing blend like intersecting faces. This tool can be used to reduce the number and complexity of patch faces used to create intersecting geometry. Blend Corner can be used to make intersecting blended vertices look more aesthetically pleasing or to make the CAD geometry reflect the actual part.
Blend Corner can be used on both "dumb" or un-parameratized geometry and fully featured history tree. It can also be used on solids and surfaces alike.
The Limit Curves on each blend or blend-like face create Transition Curves that are used to create the new surface. Multiple intersecting blended faces can be selected and edited.
By de-selecting Patch Into Part, you can use tools like Deviation gauge to see the difference between the new patch and old faces. Then make the call.
