NX 5 Textbook by Ming C. Leu (Models)
Note 1: The videos on this page require Adobe Flash
Note 2: There is sound on each video.
Note 3: You are required to save your model from each video (except Video 1).
Video 1 – Setting Up Roles, Creating a Primitive, View Controls
- Setting the Role
- Starting a new part file
- Inserting a primitive
- View control
- Zoom
- Pan
- Rotate
- Other View Operations
Video 2 – Editing Existing Geometry, Inserting, Positioning and Editing Holes
- Inserting a Primitive
- Inserting a Design Feature
- Hole Fundamentals
- Through Holes
- Blind Holes
- Positioning a Design Feature
- Editing Parameters
- Editing Positioning
Video 3 – Creating reference geometry (datum planes and axes).
- Inserting Reference Geometry
- Datum Planes
- Bisecting Plane
- Datum Axis
- Positioning with Reference Geometry
- Offset Plane
- Inserting a Hole on a Plane
- Layers
- Move to Layer
- Layer Settings
- Object Selection Filter
- Translucency
- Show/Hide
- Parametric Modeling
- Using Expressions
- Units of Measure
- Measure Distance
- Horizontal Reference
- Part Navigator
- Rectangular Pad
- Detail Features
- Draft
- Edge Blend
- Shell Offset
- Section View
- NOTE: Keep your model from Video 7. It will be used in video 8
- Creating a Sketch
- Quick Trim
- Constraints
- Snaps
- Reference Geometry
- Dimensional Constraints
- Geometric Constraints
- Positioning the Sketch
- Naming the Sketch
- Extrusion
- Builds on Video 7 (Turns hex shape into a bolt)
- More Design Features
- Threads
- Revolution
- Subtraction
Assembly Modeling (NX5)
Download the models used in this tutorial (zip)
- Absolute Origin Positioning
- Mate Positioning
- Reference Set
- Add Component
- Assembly Constraints
- More Assembly Constraints
- Reposition
- Collision Action
- Entire Part Reference Set
- Section View Revisited
