Posts Tagged ‘Tips & Tricks’
NX Hints and Tips – view a model from inside the model
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models. But what if you want to view a model from inside the model?
You can use this method to show a correct perspective view from inside a vehicle, a building, or a ship.
This technique uses two NX functions – creating a camera and setting the center of rotation.
Remember that the camera location and perspective are stored with the camera definition, but not the Rotate Point.
Jerry
NX CAE Tips & Tricks – FEA Workflow Part #2
Monday, April 9th, 2012
In Part 1, we first became acquainted with essential user interface navigation before creating an idealized, analysis-specific representation of our bracket. Next stop on our journey – meshing. Sometimes referred to as gridding, meshing is the process of dividing up geometry into discrete regions that can be subjected to numerical solution. To sound extra smart, or if you just like big words, you may also refer to meshing as a form of ‘domain discretization.’
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NX Hints and Tips – Full Screen Mode
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Sometimes your NX session gets cluttered with too many open windows and toolbars.
Did you know that there is a way to enter full screen mode in NX? Continue reading “NX Hints and Tips – Full Screen Mode” »
NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves
Monday, March 5th, 2012
This is my second post on the new NX8 help video tutorials. As I mentioned last time, these videos are available to all NX users when they install NX8.
This week, let’s look at a more complex scenario. We create a path through complex curves. Continue reading “NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves” »
New NX 8 Help and Videos
Monday, February 27th, 2012
With NX8, the NX Help system has a new interface that makes it easier for you to find information and browse content.
Some of the key enhancements are:
- Search performance is improved.
- Search filtering gives you control to search in specific areas of NX.
- Help is reorganized to make navigation more logical, to increase the relevancy of search results, and to make search filtering more specific.
- Breadcrumb links are available on each page to help you keep track of your location. ( A table of contents is still available, but is not displayed by default. )
- Links to all related information are displayed on the right side. Links are organized by information type under different headings.
- And my favorite enhancement; the video examples included with the Help now include voice-over narration. This narration provides important information about the steps being demonstrated. For each video, you can use the options on the play bar to display closed caption text or to mute the narration.
Following is a video from NX Help:
Be sure to click on the red CC button, to see the caption text.
Would you like to see more NX help videos? Let me know if you’d like me to post more of them.
Jerry
Preview of the New NX Help Libraries
Friday, May 6th, 2011
At PLM Connection 2011, I caught up with Gregg Makepeace, the NX Technical Documentation Manager at Siemens PLM Software. Gregg was demonstrating some of the new features coming in the NX help libraries.
In this video, Gregg shows us some examples. Continue reading “Preview of the New NX Help Libraries” »
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: CAM Express Face Milling Associativity
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
This week’s show brings back Jim Wright and CAM Express. Find out how tool paths created with ‘face selection’ in CAM Express automatically update after changes to your Solid Edge models, eliminating the need to recreate a new boundary or update it to match the new geometry.
MORE TIPS & TRICKS FROM GTAC
What is the option ‘Use Geometry-based Naming’ for in the Part Copy command when selecting Parasolid files?
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: Solid Edge Simulation, Mid Plane Surface
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
This week we’re back to Solid Edge for more Tips and Tricks. @burhop will be happy with this tip…Learn how to extract a mid plane surface in Solid Edge Simulation and use surface elements to simplify analysis.
MORE TIPS & TRICKS FROM GTAC
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks go High Def – Face Milling Without Boundaries in CAM Express
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The Solid Edge Tips & Tricks series has gone High Def! Change the YouTube settings to HD (720p) so you can better see the mouse clicks and UI in the Tips and Tricks series. Don’t forget to go full screen.
How to view Tips & Trick in High Def on YouTube
The newest Tip brings us back to CAM. Jim Wright, our resident CAM Express guru, will show you how face selection is used to automatically constrain tool paths on machined surfaces with CAM Express.
For more info on CAM Express: www.siemens.com/plm/CAMExpress
We’ll be back next week with a Tip & Trick on Solid Edge Simulation 
Solid Edge Tips and Tricks from the Experts can be seen weekly. These short videos illustrate how to better utilize features and functions of the Solid Edge CAD software, ultimately helping you do your job more efficiently.
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: Bolted Connection
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Our second Solid Edge Tip & Trick of the week! Learn how to use a ‘bolted connection’ in Solid Edge Simulation to simulate more real world design scenarios from Mark Thompson.
MORE SOLID EDGE TIPS & TRICKS FROM GTAC
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