NX8.5 Tutorials

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Video 1 – Getting Started

 Video 2 – Primitives and Design Features

Video 3 – Creating reference Geometry

Video 4 – Using layers, editing object display.

  • Layers
    • Move to Layer
    • Layer Settings
  • Object Selection Filter
  • Translucency
  • Object Display Color
  • Show/Hide

Video 5 – Using expressions, measure distance, part navigator.

  • Parametric Modeling
  • Using Expressions
    • Units of Measure
    • Conditional Expression (not in video)
      • Extend text entry, click conditional
      • If ( p1 = 1 ) Then ( 77 ) Else ( 11 )
  • Part Navigator
    • History-Dependent Modeling
  • Measuring Distance
    • Simple Distance
    • Projected Distance
    • Using Measured Distance in Expression Editor

 Video 6 – Detail features, draft, edge blend, shell offset, section view.

  •     Detail Features
  •     Draft
  •     Edge Blend
  •     Shell Offset
  •     Section View

Video 7 – Sketching, Constraints, Positioning, Extrusion

  • Creating a Sketch
  • Close Corner
  • 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 Video

Download the models used in this tutorial (zip)

  • Absolute Origin Positioning
  • Fixed Constraint
  • Reference Set
    • Model
    • Entire Part
  • Subassemblies
  • Touch-Align Constraints
  • Distance Constraints
  • Parallel Constraints

Pattern Feature

Extended Pattern Feature (by Ally PLM)

FEA Video

Drafting Application Video

Sheet Metal Application (by Ally PLM)

Surfacing (by Ally PLM)

Surfacing Etc. by Daljeet Singh

all Ally PLM videos for NX

CMM Programming in NX

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