Hi,
We changed to NX 11 few weeks ago. It took a lot of customizing to get things usable again. Almost everything default had to be customized, but thanks to options many things can be optimized. More clicking, more creator loved info dialogs. They all have to go if you ask me. Warnings of a things you cant't do nothing about are simply waste of time. Eg. missing material, before it was read only part modified. Also would be nice not see any module toolbars which we are not licenced to like ship building / automotive.
I see some bugs that keep on driving down productivity on solid modelling.
Mouse right click options don't appear correctly available until many more clicks. Appearing selection is not modelling/sheet metal functions related, more like viewing general. This happens all the time.
The way solid geometry displays on the screen especially round surfaces are not precise or good quality when created with newer version. I see multiple edges on the round surfaces, fillet rounds looking like chamfers and round holes like polygons. It is funny how everything created with 8.5 still looks fine on the side.
Second problem much more severe. We design complex sheet metal parts which require easily 20-50 lines on part navigator. Those features are holes, cutouts, flanges etc. I have learned that the way features create internal constraints through datums disable possibility to remove downstream features retaining the model references of previous features.
I give you an example. When adding some cutout on the solid the next sketch based feature NX wants reference for the datum at the nearest geometry point. Many times we have to delete some of these previous features, that leads to missing reference and many errors.
I think sketch referencing makes changes to downstream features modelling integrity fail at default. I have to ask, was the original purpose of the feature based 3D modelling to lock every historical feature to previous for retaining the model integrity? When adding a hole, do I have think first to find a point that is not likely to be removed later to reference ?
That would be a very backward solution to obvious problem we have in current NX.