Category Archives: NX Tutorials and Best Practices

WAVE Geometry Linker: FIX at Current Timestamp Option and Manufacturing Workflow

By | 12/06/2016

    Our today tutorial will be dedicated to the quite handy WAVE-linker option which is called Fix at Current Timestamp. To make this tutorial more clear and simple to understand it will be illustrated from the application end – we will create a blank geometry from the solid part for NX CAM project.  … Read More »

Siemens NX Quick Tutorial: NX Face Selection Intent Rules

By | 08/31/2016

    Siemens NX uses different rules to organize the object selection. It divided to the different subtypes, each of them has an unique functionality, giving an opportunity to select objects by special rules. These options allow you to easily select multiple faces.     Therefore it is surely important to understand all the selection rules’ subtypes – this… Read More »

Siemens NX Tip: Shuffle Random Color

By | 07/28/2016

In this article we will discover a way to paint all part faces/bodies in random colors. At first we should switch NX to the Random Color Display mode. Therefore go to File -> All Preferences -> Visualization, or simply press Ctrl + Shift + V. Under the Color/Font tab open the Random Color list of… Read More »

Siemens NX Tutorial: Top-Down Design using ‘Create New’ Feature

By | 07/26/2016

    Today we will speak about the Create New command which located under the Assemblies tab. This command creates a new part file for the selected geometry. It considers a part of co-called ‘Top-Down Design Methodology’. Using this feature allows you to: Copy an existing geometry to a new part file; Create an empty part file;… Read More »