A common situation is when you have designed your part in a solid body and need to create a draft with all dimensions. If you had using sketches, holes or symbolic threads in your part – then this way will help you to inherit dimensions from solid onto a draft. By the way,… Read More »
You probably had facing a problem of units conversion or dual dimensioning while working in Siemens NX. If so – then this hint would be helpful for you. Siemens NX has an option to convert units within expressions using special functions. Let’s create a simple Sketch that consists of the circle and two lines,… Read More »
Sometimes it is necessary to create a basic object, which later becomes a skeleton for the rest geometry. It could be datum planes, created at some distance from any WCS plane, which are suitable for use as limits for both extrude and revolve features. You can assign them names to simplify the search in… Read More »
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 »
This short video tutorial will acquaint you with the set of Edit Object Display options in Siemens NX. The functionality of display options inheritance and partially shaded views are considered.
This article is dedicated to the task of calculation a center of mass’ position in assemblies. It is a very basic operation which contains only two steps to finish. We will use a Nutcracker assembly to illustrate our example the right way. First of all, open your assembly in… Read More »
This short video tutorial will describe an ‘Define Regions’ option of the ‘Unite’ feature. It should be quite useful hint, especially for NX beginners.
