Siemens NX 10 Essential Training

Explore design intent as the core of a parametric CAD system, using a simple sketch and dimensions to show how constraints govern the model’s behavior.

Explore how NX uses a single dot part file format for parts, assemblies, and drawings, with templates guiding creation and enabling drawing from the same file.

Explore the NX user interface, including the quick access toolbar, file menu bar, ribbons and tabs, tool groups, the 3D graphic window, and the search command finder.

Learn to create a new tab and groups in the file menu, customize tools with the customize window, drag tools into groups, and adjust icons and layout.

Explore how to tailor the Siemens NX 10 user interface by choosing ribbon bar or classic toolbar, enabling text for new users, and adjusting theme, status bar, and home page.

Learn to change the model display style in Siemens NX 10 using the view and style tabs, and adjust the background color for improved visibility.

Learn the differences between direct sketch and sketch in task environment, using simple shapes versus advanced tools, and how to edit with rollback or switch environments for real-time sketching.

Learn a shortcut to apply geometric relations in Siemens NX 10, using a pop-up toolbar to quickly set equal radius, tangent, perpendicular, linear, parallel, or vertical and horizontal constraints.

Learn to control automatic geometric relations in Siemens NX 10 by enabling or disabling default constraints such as horizontal, vertical, tangent, parallel, perpendicular, and collinear, and customize snap behavior.

Apply geometric and dimensional constraints to fully constrain a sketch in Siemens NX 10. Use the status bar to determine needed constraints and resolve underconstrained features, including circles.

Activate NX 10 project card tool, select a face to create outer shape, and watch card update with model changes; use associative option to break the link.

Learn to create chamfers in a sketch by selecting lines, choosing a location, and applying symmetric, asymmetric, or offset and angle chamfers with defined distances.

Create corners in Siemens NX 10 using the make corner tool to join two lines or a line and an arc with a single click, via a simple dialog box.

Differentiate sketch based features from non sketch based features in NX 10, using extrude or revolve to create 3D bodies, then apply non sketch based features like blend.