Learning Siemens NX

Introduction

• Get ahead with Siemens NX
• How to access and create a part file
• Preferences

1. User Interface

• What you're looking at
• Understanding the menus
• Navigators
• Ribbon, toolbars, and icons
• Work Coordinate System (WCS) and triad
• Status and cue lines
• Mouse functions
• Selection intent
• Hide and show
• File organization

2. Sketch Options and Settings

• Positioning a sketch
• Entering and exiting Sketcher
• Sketcher options

3. Part Design Workflow

• Creating a sketch
• Making a solid
• Detail features
• Editing methods

4. Creating and Editing Sketches

• Curve creation
• Curve modification
• Geometric constraints
• Dimensional constraints
• Project: Valve housing sketches

5. Modeling Application

• Revolve
• Extrude
• Boolean functions
• Hole
• Edge blend
• Patterns
• Mirror geometry
• Project: Valve housing model 1
• Project: Valve housing model 2

6. Measures

• Measure tools

7. Building an Assembly

• Inserting parts into an assembly
• Moving parts around
• Constraints and relationships
• Constraints and reference sets
• Contextual edits
• Saving and loading an assembly

8. Drafting

• Drawing page setup and creating views
• Dimensions
• Text and editor

Conclusion

• Goodbye