Archive for March, 2006

Reference expression values in a Drafting note

You can reference expressions to annotation (notes). The format to reference an expression in a annotation is: <x0 .2@name> Where name is the expression name, and 0.2 is the format. For example you have an expression named: Length it’s value is 12.3. In drafting create a annotation and type in <x0 .2@Length>. The resulting display [...]

Create “User Defined Symbols”

What are User Defined Symbols? There are a couple ways to get your companies special symbols into a NX Drawing. One way is to manually draw it with curves and text. To add the same symbol to another drawing you could open the part up, select the geometry, copy and paste into the new drawing. [...]

3D Tool path Machining

3D Tool path Machining

It’s not NX but a nice example of what can be done with a 3D solid. The example/tutorial is really shows how to take a solid 3D model and machine it out. Similiar approach can be done with NX. I thought everyone would be interested in this kind of thing. In case you haven’t heard [...]