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New NX Sketch

New NX Sketch NX Sketch has a new solver to help you create sketches that are accurate and represent your design intent. Note: This NEW solver can be turned off or on by using File > Utilities > Feature Toggle > and scroll till you find “use the new solver and UI for sketch” > […]

January 22, 2021

Sheet Metal Tips

Tips For Sheet Metal Design in NX Maintaining manufacturability while designing within the sheet metal application brings a unique set of challenges. Here are 5 sheet metal tips to ensure complex designs are done quickly and correctly. Top 5 Tips for Sheet Metal Design in NX Adjust the global parameters before starting. Some of these […]

January 14, 2021

Export All Components of an Assembly

Export All Components of an Assembly Working in a support role often requires sharing part files and exporting all components of an assemblies with customers and vice versa. This seemingly simple task can present problems at times. End users of Siemens NX likely must share part files between departments, customers, vendors, etc, and can be […]

January 7, 2021

Solid Edge University 2020

9 sessions • Sam Estrada, John Vincent, Kevin Grayson, Kyle Aruda, Steve Schnelker Rewatch our annual gathering of Solid Edge enthusiasts for a full day of sessions to get to know your software better. We toured the new capabilities added in the software in the first session with Sam. Two sessions in the morning and [...]

December 4, 2020

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

How to use NX Site Material Library 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. Getting Started with Site [...]

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

NXU Preview: Pattern Enhancements in NX 1899

What's New in NX Pattern Enhancements This update on NX pattern enhancements simplifies the pattern creation process and also reduce Pattern update and creation times. In previous versions, the Simple method of patterning did not support multiple features. If more than one feature was selected, the pattern would become a Variational Pattern which would then [...]

July 21, 2020