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Flat Pattern Templates and Flat Solids in NX

Flat Pattern Templates and Flat Solids in NX Often in design, you need to take sheet metal parts and make flattened out views of them for templates. In this week's blog, I'll be looking at the process of going from part to flat pattern, then exporting it, and creating a flat solid from the pattern. [...]

November 12, 2020

Extracting Assemblies from Teamcenter in NX and Solid Edge

Extracting Assemblies from Teamcenter There are several ways of getting your data out of Teamcenter, especially if you're dealing with assemblies or going through a CAD program. There's manual extraction, but sometimes that takes too long. Here, I'll show two different programs that work with Solid Edge and NX to get assemblies out of a [...]

October 23, 2020

Adding Secondary Tabs and Three Bend Corners on Sheet Metal in NX

Intermediate Sheet Metal Features in NX In this blog, I wanted to focus on adding secondary tabs and three bend corners, topics covered in our NX Sheet Metal class. Although these features might not seem related, I think this is a very common progression. I will be working in NX 1899, although these features are [...]

October 15, 2020

Site Material Library in NX – Getting Started

Site Material Library in NX - Getting Started Setting up a site material library can be a great way to make precise adjustments and create materials in a custom material library. This example is in NX 12 but is very similar across newer versions. Some file setup is required outside of NX. How to Get [...]

October 8, 2020

Most Useful Synchronous Modeling Tools: Move, Delete, Resize Face

Most Useful Synchronous Modeling Tools: Move, Delete, Resize Face The Top 3 Tools Used in NX CAD Synchronous Modeling Synchronous modeling tools in NX CAD allow NX users to quickly edit the design geometry without having to edit any original features. This allows for precise, direct push-and-pull edits to the body. The synchronous modeling tool [...]

October 1, 2020

How to Display Right Angled Head in Tool Path Verify with NX CAM

Display Right Angled Head for Tool Path Verification I occasionally receive questions about the use of right-angled heads in NX CAM and tool path verification. If you use these types of heads often, you probably use NX CAM’s NC Simulation module to verify that your tool paths are collision- and gouge-free. But what if you [...]

September 24, 2020

How to make English and Metric Parts Lists for Drawing Templates in NX

How to make English and Metric parts lists for drawing templates in NX Ever needed to convert English to metric parts lists for your drawing templates in NX? Recently, I had a customer reach out about building a Metric and English parts list issue. The customer needed to easily add to the appropriate drawing format. […]

August 21, 2020

Custom Boundaries for Drawing Views

Custom Boundaries for Drawing Views Note: We will be covering other commonly overlooked functions, like creating custom boundaries from drawing views, at our first-ever virtual edition of NX University–a one-day event covering new features, hidden gems, and best practices for NX Design and Manufacturing users. Editing drawing view boundaries can be very clean and efficient […]

August 14, 2020

How to Find the Interior Part Volume Using Synchronous Technology Delete Face Feature

How to Find the Interior Part Volume Using Synchronous Technology Delete Face Feature Let's cover how to find the interior volume of a cavity, or a void, in your NX part. The first thing we need to do is add a couple options to the toolbar that are not there by default. Go to the [...]

August 7, 2020

Lofted Flanges

Rollback Lofted Flange Behavior in Solid Edge 2020 & 2021 Are you running into issues trying to recreate Lofted Flanges in newer versions of Solid Edge? Let’s quickly cover the process of how to disable the “Auto Relief” option in Lofted Flange creation in Solid Edge 2020 & 2021 In the new versions of Solid […]

July 30, 2020

Flat Pattern Templates and Flat Solids in NX

Extracting Assemblies from Teamcenter in NX and Solid Edge

Adding Secondary Tabs and Three Bend Corners on Sheet Metal in NX

Site Material Library in NX – Getting Started

Most Useful Synchronous Modeling Tools: Move, Delete, Resize Face

How to Display Right Angled Head in Tool Path Verify with NX CAM

How to make English and Metric Parts Lists for Drawing Templates in NX

Custom Boundaries for Drawing Views

How to Find the Interior Part Volume Using Synchronous Technology Delete Face Feature

Lofted Flanges

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