Drafting: Feature to use number pad to define decimal places removed.
At least up until NX 8.5, you could highlight a dimension and tap the number pad to define decimal places. This was one of the most useful sort of "easter eggs" I've found in the drafting module. And...
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Cubic-Fillet Bridge: Control Region
Section Surface > Cubic > Fillet Bridge In this magic command, Control Region has three items: Entire, Start and End. I just find that all three items can affect the fillet surface at the same...
View ArticleElectrical Routing
Hello,I'm a mechanical designer working on a wire bundle where I'm using data imported from Capital Harness. This is my first time doing this bridging process, and for the most part it seems to work...
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Placing cutouts in a multi-body variational sweep?
I have a part that is formed by sweeping mutilple sections with a variational sweep. That works fine, but I've run into a snag where I now need to form cutouts in the part. If I use an extrude, it...
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blending surfaces-III
I'm trapped a situation to start from an existing surface (the real case might be very different from the current simplified example) to build a transitional face. My solution is to create two Curve on...
View ArticleNX MCD - Create cam profile from a mechanical cam
NX MCD has a function that will create a mechanical cam from a profile, however I would like to make a cam profile to be used with an electronic cam from a mechanical cam. Is there a way to do this?
View ArticleNX 12 - Sketch - Edit Parameters - Reattach - Grayed Out
Hello, I apologize if this is addressed elsewhere. At times I need to move a sketch to a new datum plane, but I see no way to do so. Here's what I've done in the past (in previous versions of...
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surfacing with internal control
Below is a classic example teaching the practice of avoiding points as sections in Thru Curve Mesh. I wonder what's a better practice to get it done with Studio Surface or other commands to achieve a...
View ArticleNX 11 drafting
Hi friends, Iam new to NX 11, Iam working in drafting and PMI. For our project purpose we are hidding some of the dimensions in PMI using suppression by expression, but it is not...
View Articlemodelling project management
In my understanding, the process of developing the basic modelling strategy for a complex model (styling) is very similar to that of writing a big program. Q1: Are there some tutorials, materials or...
View ArticleNX 10/12 assembly arrangement behavior - Updated
Hello, I've noticed in both NX 10 and NX 12 that the assembly arrangements are having strange behavior. I created different arrangements that have doors in a cabinet. For some of the arrangements,...
View ArticleExpression editor - how to make active group "stick"
NX10.0.3.5 MP16 or MP19 In the expression editor, I can make an expression group the "active" group. How can I make that "Stick" when the part is saved, closed & re-opened? I can set the active...
View ArticleGrouped pattern of sketch objects not staying grouped
I have a complicated sketch that contains several sets of patterned elements. To help keep these organized, I've put these patterns in separate sketch groups. The patterns are driven by expressions...
View ArticleNX Expressions
I had created a model using part modules and suppress by expression. The basic idea is to get different curves as output from part module by suppressing one and activating the other using suppress by...
View ArticleInferred/Explicit in Show/Remove Constraints dialog box?
Hello All, May I get to know about what are Inferred and Explicit in Show/Remove Constraints dialog box?
View ArticlePosition Controler when Formulas are needed to describe the position
Hi everybody, I am new and need your help.I am working with NX 12, MCD. I have been working with NX MCD for a month.Now I am facing several problems i can not solve myself.1.There is a sliding Joint...
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Ongoing Strange behavior for NX 12... assembly arrangements and component...
Hello, It seems that the more I use in NX 12, the more problems I see. I used NX 10 for three years, so I am "surprised" (maybe not the best word for it) to see things that worked OK in NX 10 are now...
View ArticleNX Large Assemblies - Master Models - Drawings - Teamcenter BOMs
*** I apologive before hand for the length of this post, especially for it being my first *** ============================================================================== Current Software NX 8.5...
View ArticleHow To Split a Simple Body & Then Pull or Move Face
Hello All, On a 4 inch diameter cylinder at 10 inches high, how can I split the body and then move the lower half down say 1.000" and then pull or move the upper body's lower face to lower split body?...
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