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NX 6 Skill #1663 Helical shape

NX6 tutorial from DV:

 

NX 6 Skill #1662 Perimeter command

 Re-run of a DV tutorial:

 

Siemens PLM Launches NX with Synchronous-enabled Freeform

Siemens PLM Launches NX with Synchronous-enabled Freeform

MOSCOW, Oct 12, 2010 - NX product design software, from Siemens PLM Software, now supports synchronous-enabled freeform design. With these new, unique tools, users can create and modify complex freeform geometry with exceptional speed, versatility, and control. With this capability, NX delivers an advanced shaping toolkit that works with any geometry – even imported models.

Simple push and pull shaping techniques mean users don’t have to be a surface design expert to create complex freeform models. The freeform modeling tools allow users to begin with solid or surface, analytic or B-rep geometry. You can insert or model organic forms by moving constraint points, surface poles and handles. Surface selection and analysis tools help users control continuity, blending and inflections to create designs with greater aesthetic appeal. These freeform models are completely re-usable, from concept through production.

For more information visit: http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/nx/nx7/CAD/accelerate_design.shtml

About Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with nearly 6.7 million licensed seats and 63,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products.

For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

About the Siemens Industry Automation Division

The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, industrial controls and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industries to solutions for whole industrial sectors that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. With around 39,000 employees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry Automation achieved sales of €7.0 billion in fiscal year 2009.

For more information, visit www.siemens.com/industryautomation.

WHAT’S NEW IN NX 7.5

Design Visionaries Releases Basic to Advanced NX 7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies

San Jose, CA – August, 2010 – Design Visionaries is proud to announce the upcoming release of our latest book, Basic to Advanced NX 7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies.. Basic to Advanced NX 7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies is the newly revised version of DV’s previous CAD training textbooks.  The content, detail, and exercises included in this edition have been greatly expanded.

Topics in the manual will include:  Synchronous and Master Modeling; Beginning to Advanced Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; and methodologies for Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.

Using NX 7.5 is like playing a piano.  In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others.  This book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that DV has used to bring about excellent designs.

This manual teaches modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality including all the latest and greatest tools found only in NX 7.5.

The book may be purchased at www.designviz.com/books.

Basic to Advanced NX 7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies

by Stephen Samuel, Benjamin Stevenson, Eric Weeks, & Anuranjini Pragada

ISBN: 978-0975437797

Trade Paper, $149

Publication Date: August, 2010

New books from DV

We are hard at work, putting the final touches on 2 new books.

Basic to Advanced NX 7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies and Basic and Intermediate Solid Edge ST2 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies will both be released this month.  Look for all the details soon!

Steve Samuel on NX 7.5 ST surfacing tools

Steve, in answer to a question:

About NX 7.5 ST surfacing:

The guy who’s up to his ears in alligators may loose sight that his original job was to drain the swamp. In the same way it is easy when solid modeling to get caught up in the capabilities, functions, and features, and forget the goal is to design a truly great product. For over a decade we design engineers have enjoyed ever more capable, parametric CAD tools. Synchronous modeling is a quantum leap. It’s a tool that goes beyond the one size fits all strictly parametric approach. Suddenly you have the power and the freedom of modifying geometry without laboriously considering every single feature that was constructed before, and in many cases by someone else. Over the years I have seen skilled design engineers waste huge amounts of time wrestling to make sometimes minor changes to their parametric models that could have been made in minutes using synchronous modeling techniques. That said, I don’t advocate moving away from parametric modeling, in fact the overwhelming majority of synchronous modeling techniques are indeed driven by parameters too. However, I believe strongly, and based on countless hours of actual design experience, that the correct blend of traditional parametric techniques and synchronous modeling techniques delivers the optimum capability.

I still would like to see more tools that enable you to establish relationships between surfaces in the same way sketch constraints establish relationships between 2-D entities and are solved simultaneously. For example, the parallel surface command should maintain parallelism between surfaces even if you subsequently perform a move face on either of the surfaces. I’d also love to see more sophisticated ways of creating patterns on surfaces. But don’t get me started. I have an entire file cabinet of things that I’d like to see that I know would make the software far more powerful, I just don’t know if they’re possible.

See the discussion here.

Steve Samuel on the latest in NX

Steve spoke with Dora Smith of Siemens at PLM connection and shared some highlights from his talk there "Superior Modeling Techniques to Superior Product Design".  He talks about applying the latest techniques in NX and his favorite new features.

NX 7.5 Skill #1677 Inferred Blend

Here is another tutorial on NX 7.5:

NX 7.5 Skill #1676 Synchronous Modeling - Reuse Tools

Here's another new tutorial on NX7.5:

NX7.5 Book?

Yes, we are currently hard at work on our latest book on NX7.5.  Look for some announcements soon!