Polygon Modeling and Reverse Engineering (Current) 7  Chapters

Learn to create, modify, and improve faceted models using the NX Polygon Modeling capabilities

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to Polygon Modeling 2 Topics

1. Introduction to Polygon Modeling
2. KC: Introduction to Polygon Modeling

3 Polygon Modeling Task Environment 23 Topics

1. Extrude Facet Body
2. Extrude Profile
3. Clean Up Facet Body
4. Lab: Conduct a part cleanup
5. Remesh Facet Body
6. Snip Facet Body
7. Fill Hole
8. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 1
9. Decimate Facets
10. Subdivide Facets
11. Divide Facet Faces
12. Paint Facet Body
13. Smooth Facets
14. Create Transitions
15. Adjust Minimum Radius
16. Local Offset
17. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 2
18. Combine Facet Bodies
19. Merge Touching
20. Align by Points
21. Align by Multi Patch
22. Lab: Polygon Operations
23. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 3

4 Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar 10 Topics

1. Convert Facet Body
2. Plug Holes and Wrap Mesh
3. Facet Body From Body
4. Mesh from Cloud
5. Detect Primitives
6. Using the Texture Task Environment with a Rip Edge
7. Facet Body Curvature
8. Extract Curvature Areas
9. Using the Texture Task Environment
10. KC: Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar

5 Morph Mesh Task Environment 3 Topics

1. Creating and Deleting Control Cages
2. Transform Cage
3. KC: Morph Mesh Task Environment

6 Reverse Engineering 14 Topics

1. Introduction to NX Reverse Engineering
2. Reverse Engineering - Rapid Surfacing
3. Reverse Engineering - Fit Surface
4. KC: Reverse Engineering Surface Fitting
5. Reverse Engineering - Xform
6. Reverse Engineering - Smooth Poles
7. Reverse Engineering - Deviation Gauge
8. Reverse Engineering - Grid Analysis
9. Reverse Engineering - Reflection Analysis
10. Lab: Reverse Engineering – Shadow Curves
11. Lab: Reverse Engineering – Projected Curves
12. Lab: Reverse Engineering - Using a Face
13. Lab: Reverse Engineering – Combine Sheet Bodies
14. KC: Reverse Engineering

7 Assessment: Polygon Modeling 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Polygon Modeling

Advanced Assemblies (Current) 5  Chapters

Learn to work with, manipulate, and analyze large assemblies.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Component Grouping 13 Topics

1. Component Grouping
2. Create and use Component Groups
3. Working with component groups for a pedal car
4. Use attributes to add materials to component groups
5. Add components based on size to the component group
6. Proximity component groups
7. Create a proximity component group
8. Define a component group and use bookmarks
9. Box zones
10. Use two points to define a box zone
11. Create a box zone
12. Knowledge check: Component Grouping
13. Principle Lab: Create component groups

3 Assembly representations 4 Topics

1. Assembly representations
2. Create and display Representations
3. Create representations at the assembly level
4. Knowledge check: Assembly representations

4 Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature 7 Topics

1. Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature
2. Create a Wrap Assembly
3. Create a wrap to enclose an assembly
4. Create a Linked Exterior feature
5. Creating and using a linked exterior
6. Simplify a pump assembly
7. Knowledge check: Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature

5 Advanced mass properties 6 Topics

1. Advanced mass properties
2. Advanced weight management
3. Calculate weight data
4. Review the mass properties of a design
5. Use exceptions and modify weight values
6. Knowledge check: Advanced mass properties

Documenting with Drafting (Current) 9  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views 19 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
6. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
7. Secondary Geometry
8. Use Secondary Geometry in a drawing view
9. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
10. Delete views and drawing sheets
11. How do I create a custom view?
12. Create a custom view
13. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
14. Move and align a drafting view
15. Move and align a drafting view
16. Update a drawing
17. Update a drawing
18. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
19. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions 10 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create dimensions with appended text
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Change the settings of existing dimensions
7. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
8. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
9. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
10. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations 20 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Add a part family table to a drawing
9. Create and edit balloon symbols
10. Create balloon symbols with leaders
11. GD&T symbols
12. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
13. Create surface finish symbols
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Create and place custom symbols
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Identify and edit retained annotations
18. Edit associativity to model geometry
19. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
20. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings 24 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create assembly explosions using auto-explode
10. Create tracelines in an exploded view
11. Add tracelines to an exploded view
12. Part Attributes
13. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
14. Using part attributes and object attributes
15. Assign part attributes
16. Create part attributes for a parts list
17. Add columns to a parts list
18. Place and configure a parts list
19. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Sort, print, and save parts list data
21. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
22. Add balloons to a drafting view
23. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
24. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing

9 Assessment: Documenting with Drafting 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Documenting with Drafting

Sheet Metal Design (Current) 9  Chapters

Create machinery, enclosures, etc. normally manufactured with a brake press. Create and build on base features with advanced features like gussets and louvers.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part 23 Topics

1. Define the basic shape of a Sheet Metal part
2. Construct Base Features
3. Create a tab with various bend references
4. Set global parameters and create a Tab feature
5. Create a Multi-Bend Tab
6. Create multiple flanges
7. Add flanges to the edges of another flange
8. Edit flanges
9. Create multiple Flanges in one feature
10. Design a brace for a locker door
11. Design a sheet metal part starting with a contour flange
12. Form flanges and miter corners
13. Create a Lofted Flange
14. Design a sheet metal part starting with a lofted flange
15. Design a sheet metal part with a multi-segment lofted flange
16. Create a Hem Flange
17. Fold edges of sheet metal parts
18. Create a Jog
19. Add jogs to create a U-shaped part
20. Sheet metal from solid
21. Convert faces of a solid model to a sheet metal part
22. Knowledge Check: Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part
23. Principle Lab: Secondary Contour Flange

3 Bending sheets 7 Topics

1. Bending Sheets
2. Bend, Unbend, and Rebend
3. Add bends to a blank
4. Unbend and rebend features
5. Working with Bridge Bends
6. Create a Bridge Bend
7. Knowledge Check: Bending sheets

4 Add cutouts and close uneven corners 16 Topics

1. Add cutouts and close uneven corners
2. Create a perpendicular cutout
3. Create cutouts perpendicular to faces
4. Create cutouts using 3D curves
5. Add tapered flanges to a base tab feature
6. Create tapered flanges
7. Create reverse tapers that start at the bend
8. Eliminate gaps between adjacent bends with closed corners
9. Create closed corners
10. Close uneven corners
11. Three bend corner
12. Close a corner where three adjacent bends meet
13. Smooth and blend sharp corners
14. Remove sharp corners
15. Knowledge Check: Add cutouts and close uneven corners
16. Principle Lab: Create cutouts across bend regions

5 Create deform features 17 Topics

1. Create deform features
2. Add a Dimple feature
3. Create a Dimple feature
4. Drawn Cutout
5. Create a Drawn Cutout
6. Create a vented area on a sheet metal component using Louver
7. Create a Louver feature
8. U-Shaped Bead
9. Create a Circular Bead
10. Create a U-Shaped Bead
11. Add beads to bend regions
12. Solid Punch
13. Create a Solid Punch feature
14. Strengthen a part by creating a square gusset
15. Create a gusset feature
16. Knowledge Check: Create deform features
17. Principle Lab: Create a pattern of louvers

6 Prepare a part for manufacturing 8 Topics

1. Prepare a part for manufacturing
2. Flatten a formed part and create a flat pattern view for downstream use
3. Flatten a solid part and create a flat pattern view
4. Edit the Flat Pattern Bend Sequence
5. Use Analyze Formability – One-step
6. Analyze Formability – One-step
7. Knowledge Check: Prepare a part for manufacturing
8. Principle Lab: Create a flat pattern

7 Convert solid models to sheet metal parts 10 Topics

1. Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
2. Clean up the imported part and convert it to a sheet metal part
3. Convert a parasolid file to a sheet metal part
4. Rip
5. Create non-uniform bends
6. Resize a bend radius
7. Resize Bend Angle
8. Show interim forming stages of sheet metal bends
9. Knowledge Check: Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
10. Principle Lab: Convert a non-sheet metal part

8 Sheet Metal Design - Advanced 10 Topics

1. Sheet Metal Design - Advanced
2. Advanced Flange
3. Create an Advanced Flange
4. Unbend and rebend an Advanced Flange feature
5. Create an Advanced Flange to reference
6. Lightening Cutout
7. Add a Lightening Cutout feature
8. Create a joggle
9. Create a Joggle feature on a flange
10. Knowledge Check: Sheet Metal Design - Advanced

9 Assessment: Sheet Metal Design 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Sheet Metal Design

NX Surface Modeling Processes 16  Chapters

Learn to create freeform parts that update reliably and shift smoothly to the manufacturing application.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to surface modeling processes 4 Topics

1. Introduction to freeform surface modeling
2. Preparing to create freeform features
3. Create associative curves
4. Knowledge Check: Introduction to surface modeling processes

3 Use 3D curves as construction geometry 24 Topics

1. Use 3D curves as construction geometry
2. Create intersection and projected curves
3. Projected curves
4. Intersection curves
5. Shadow Curves
6. Review line of sight using shadow curves
7. Combined projection to create a tube
8. Create a tube using combined projection
9. Create a transition using bridge curves
10. Use bridge curves to create a transition
11. Create a helix and a transition using bridge curves
12. Build a contact spring
13. Create offset curves
14. Create 3D axial offset curves
15. Create a spring using a 3D offset curve
16. Create Offset in Face curves
17. Create Offset in Face curves
18. Create a curve on a surface
19. Wrap Curves on a developable surface
20. Flatten and form geometry onto a 3D face
21. Form a label profile to a 3D face
22. Control distortion when flattening faces
23. Knowledge Check: Use 3D curves as construction geometry
24. Create associative curves

4 Build robust models 16 Topics

1. Build robust models
2. Define a template part
3. Define a template part
4. Create holes positioned on a bolt circle
5. Design groups
6. Explore design groups
7. Create a design group to partition a model
8. Using fillets in a sketch profile
9. Begin a water bottle model
10. Add threads to a water bottle
11. Model text for a water bottle
12. Combine bodies using robust techniques
13. Define grip grooves for a bottle
14. Combine features to complete the bottle
15. Knowledge Check: Build robust models
16. Add part number text to the cover

5 Create and analyze high quality curves 15 Topics

1. Create and analyze high quality curves
2. Create and modify Studio Splines
3. Constrain spline poles
4. Create studio splines using points
5. Create studio splines using poles
6. Edit a spline
7. Move poles of splines and define tangency
8. Create a tube using shop measured points
9. Framing raw data
10. Trim curves
11. Extend splines by using natural trim
12. Curve Analysis
13. Get information about a spline
14. Knowledge check: Create and analyze high quality curves
15. Evaluate spline data and create new splines using Fit Curves

6 Use mesh surfaces to define primary features 14 Topics

1. Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
2. Create and edit a ruled surface
3. Create a developable surface
4. Create a transition surface
5. Through curves parameter and arc length alignment
6. Through curves surface with by points orientation
7. Create a ceramic water tank
8. Define a Through Curve Mesh surface
9. Create a housing using through curve mesh
10. Create surfaces with tangent constraints
11. Create N-sided surfaces to enclose adjacent freeform shapes
12. Add a push-up surface to a spray bottle
13. Knowledge check: Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
14. Define an initial mesh surface for a motorcycle helmet

7 Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces 5 Topics

1. Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces
2. Create studio surfaces
3. Create studio surfaces
4. Define surfaces for a shaver housing
5. Knowledge check: Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

8 Sweep sections to start a design 12 Topics

1. Sweep sections to start a design
2. Define a path and create a Swept feature
3. Create a compression spring
4. Sweep a frame section by another curve
5. Create an exhaust pipe using an area law
6. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
7. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
8. Using variational sweep and sketch on path
9. Using the swept volume command
10. Model a camshaft follower path
11. Knowledge check: Sweep sections to start a design
12. Create primary sheets for a body panel

9 Build parts using exact geometry 7 Topics

1. Build parts using exact geometry
2. Using splines and bounded planes
3. Use sew and thicken
4. Using through curves to model sand-casted flange
5. Sweep using two guides to create a fairing
6. Knowledge check: Build parts using exact geometry
7. Complete the gas tank for a go-kart

10 Overbuild surfaces to create a part 16 Topics

1. Overbuild surfaces to create a part
2. Trim Sheet and Thicken
3. Create a variable section brake lever
4. Complete the hinge using sew and thicken
5. Complete some geometry using Combine
6. Extend a surface to a profile
7. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
8. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
9. Modify a sheet using Local Untrim and Extend
10. Snip hood surfaces
11. Design a receptacle case using offset surfaces
12. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
13. Design a heat shield
14. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
15. Knowledge check: Overbuild surfaces to create a part
16. Create a shoe horn using overbuilding

11 Define transitional geometry 14 Topics

1. Define transitional geometry
2. Build a transition using a section surface
3. Create wing surfaces using Section Surfaces
4. Build a transition using a section surface
5. Create a bridge surface
6. Create a bridge surface to finish the design of a utv hood
7. Create a Face Blend
8. Create face blends using constraint curves
9. Create an aesthetic face blend
10. Blend the shaver housing
11. Simplify a corner using fill surface
12. Use blend corner to create a transition surface
13. Knowledge check: Define transitional geometry
14. Create transition sheets for a body panel

12 Analyze the quality of freeform geometry 13 Topics

1. Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
2. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
3. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
4. Use face analysis to examine surface quality
5. Check draft using slope analysis
6. Check draft using slope analysis
7. Local Radius Analysis
8. Analyze a face to find a minimum radius
9. Examine and repair model geometry
10. Analyze edge deviations for sewn sheets
11. Examine and repair model geometry
12. Knowledge check: Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
13. Analyze body panel sheets

13 Use surfaces to add definition to a solid 12 Topics

1. Use surfaces to add definition to a solid
2. Using Law Extensions
3. Create a punch using law extensions
4. Patch surfaces
5. Patch surfaces onto a security fob
6. Patch a surface onto an existing part
7. Create knurling using an algorithmic feature
8. Create a matched parting line
9. Use draft body to remove an undercut
10. Using Emboss
11. Emboss a fog light panel
12. Knowledge check: Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

14 Deform surfaces for manufacturing 6 Topics

1. Deform surfaces for manufacturing
2. Global Shaping
3. Deform a solid body to be used in an extrusion die
4. Use global shaping to twist a surface
5. Overbend a sheet metal lever
6. Knowledge check: Deform surfaces for manufacturing

15 Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering 16 Topics

1. Import and manipulate raster images
2. Import and manipulate raster images
3. Scale a raster image using reference points
4. Designing with scanned geometry
5. Reverse engineering
6. Smooth curve string
7. Smooth a curve string for a container
8. Snip and replace facets
9. Refine a design using polygon modeling
10. Snip a facet region
11. Snip a facet region using scan data
12. Use imported facet geometry to create a mold
13. Create a mold insert using an STL file
14. Import and clean up scanned geometry
15. Modify facet models
16. Knowledge check: Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering

16 Assessment: NX Surface Modeling Processes 1 Topic

1. Assessment: NX Surface Modeling Processes

Design for Additive Manufacturing 10  Chapters

Processes and strategies associated with additive manufacturing. Develop skills for the design of components for additive manufacturing.

1 Learning Experience Overview 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Introduction to Additive Manufacturing Intro

2 Introduction to Additive Manufacturing Processes 2 Topics

1. Intro to Additive Manufacturing Processes
2. Knowledge Check: Intro to Additive Manufacturing processes

3 Additive Manufacturing in NX 4 Topics

1. Intro to Additive Manufacturing in NX
2. Planar Additive Manufacturing in NX
3. Multi-axis Additive Manufacturing in NX
4. Knowledge Check: Additive Manufacturing in NX

4 Additive Manufacturing and the Product Development Lifecycle 5 Topics

1. Product Development Lifecycle for Additive Manufacturing
2. Impacts of Additive Manufacturing on Product Design
3. Impacts of Additive Manufacturing on Product Validation
4. Impacts of Additive Manufacturing on Product Manufacture
5. Knowledge Check: Additive Manufacturing and the Product Development Process

5 Additive Manufacturing Tradeoffs and Strategy 3 Topics

1. Additive manufacturing strategy for design, topology and support structures
2. Additive Manufacturing Speed and Precision Tradeoffs
3. Knowledge Check: Additive Manufacturing Tradeoffs and Strategy

6 Introduction to Component Design for Additive Manufacture 2 Topics

1. Introduction to Component Design for Additive Manufacture
2. Knowledge Check: Intro to Component Design for Additive Manufacture

7 Useful Modeling Techniques for Additive Manufacturing 22 Topics

1. Using Geometry Checkers to Improve Designs for Additive Manufacturing
2. Checking to See Whether Designs Meet Limits for Overhang Angle, Minimum Wall Thickness, and Enclosed Volumes for Additive Mfg
3. Checking Designs for Issues With Trapped Supports and Overheating for Additive Mfg
4. Checking Designs for Print Time, Printable Volume, and Minimum Corner Radii for Additive Mfg
5. Checking Designs for Undersized Interior Channels for Additive Mfg
6. Checking Designs to Find an Optimized Part Orientation for Additive Mfg
7. Checking Designs for Porosity
8. Lab: Geometry Checks for Additive Manufacturing
9. Lab: More Geometry Checks for Additive Manufacturing
10. Lab: Investigate Optimal Part Orientation
11. Lab: Channel Ratio Check for an Airfoil
12. Lab: Check Conformal Cooling Channels
13. Lab: Check Wall Thickness and Radii
14. Lab: Validate a Pivot Arm
15. Establishing a Print Coordinate System for a Component
16. Including a Text Object in a Component
17. Lab: Creating a Text Object
18. Including Support Structures in the Component Design
19. Breaking Down a Volume into Sub-Volumes
20. Demonstration of Key Steps in Sub-Volume Development
21. Lab: Creating Sub-Volumes for Additive Manufacturing
22. Knowledge Check: Useful Modeling Techniques for Additive Manufacturing

8 Designing with Lattices 27 Topics

1. Introduction to Lattice Design
2. Best Practice for Creating Lattices
3. Prepare Sub-Volumes for Lattice Definition
4. Creating Surface and Tetrahedral Fill Lattice Types
5. Creating Unit Conformal Lattices
6. Lab: Creating Unit Conformal Lattices
7. Lab: Building Lattices on Surfaces
8. Using the Filter Lattice Command to Clean Up Lattice Bodies
9. Lab: Filter Out Unwanted Lattice Rods
10. Lab: Clip Lattice
11. Connecting Different Lattice Bodies
12. Lab: Connecting Lattice Bodies
13. Creating a Custom Unit Cell for a User-Defined Lattice Structure
14. Lab: Create and Use a User-defined Lattice Structure
15. Lab: Create Lattice Structure Around Holes
16. Lab: Reduce Weight Using Lattice
17. Creating a Body Lattice structure
18. Lab: Body Lattice
19. Introduction to Implicit Modeling structures
20. 2019 Update Topic - Tetrahedral Lattices
21. 2019 Update Topic - Unit Conformal Lattices
22. 2019 Update Topic - Lattice Preview
23. 2019 Update Topic - Print Coordinate Systems
24. 2019 Update Topic - Lattice Filters
25. 2019 Update Topic - Lattice Connections
26. 2019 Update Topic - User Defined Lattices
27. Knowledge Check: Designing with Lattices

9 Designing with Scanned Geometry 11 Topics

1. Introduction to Using Scanned Geometry
2. Import and Clean Up Scanned Geometry
3. Modify Facet Models
4. Lab: Rebuild and Repair a Scanned Component
5. Snip and Replace Facets
6. Modify Facet Models by Snipping and Replacing Facets
7. Preparing Facet Groups for Reverse Engineering
8. Fitting Surfaces to Facets for Reverse Engineering
9. Lab: Creating Precise Surfaces from Facets
10. Lab: Repair a Bone Scan Facet Model
11. Knowledge Check: Designing with Scanned Geometry

10 Generative Design and Topology Optimization 15 Topics

1. Overview of Generative Design and Topology Optimization
2. Topology Optimization Process Demo
3. Lab: Getting Started with Topology Optimization
4. How to Review Topology Optimization Results
5. Lab: Reviewing Topology Optimization Results
6. Overview of Topology Optimization Constraints
7. How to Apply Design Constraints to a Topology Optimization
8. Lab: Apply an Overhang Constraint to a Topology Optimization
9. Lab: Apply a Symmetry Constraint to a Topology Optimization
10. How to Connect Multiple Design Spaces in a Topology Optimization
11. Lab: Optimize a Design Using Connections
12. Lab: Generate an Optimized Frame Lug
13. Lab: Generate an Optimized Rocker Arm
14. Lab: Optimize a Pivot Arm
15. Knowledge Check: Generative Design and Topology Optimization

NX Join 2  Chapters

Learn to quickly place and define fasteners and hardware as well as improve quality of fastener assembly design.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Add hardware to an assembly 7 Topics

1. Add hardware to an assembly
2. Add fasteners using point join
3. Defining overlap curves and point layouts
4. Add rivets using points
5. Edit the parameters of a join feature
6. Create PMI notes for Join features
7. Knowledge check: NX Join

Weld Assistant 5  Chapters

Learn to create different types of welds, adhesives, mastics, and sealers. You will also import welds and create weld annotations in a drawing sheet.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Creating arc welds 6 Topics

1. Creating arc welds
2. Check weld defaults and objects
3. Create groove welds for piping
4. Create fillet and compound welds
5. Define and copy plug welds
6. Create a customized weld profile

3 Generate spot welds 3 Topics

1. Generating spot welds
2. Define and modify multiple weld points
3. Create weld points using Easy Spot

4 Adhesives, Mastics, and Sealers 3 Topics

1. Adhesives, Mastics, and Sealers
2. Create a bead along a seam
3. Generate sealer strips using Fill

5 Validate and Document Welds 4 Topics

1. Validating and documenting welds - Part 1
2. Validating and documenting welds - Part 2
3. Analyze and validate welds
4. Generate weld annotations automatically

Structure Designer (Current) 1  Chapter

Quickly create frames and other metal structures for machines and other equipment.

1 Structure Designer 7 Topics

1. Structure Designer
2. New Structure and Frame
3. Create members for the frame
4. Edit members of the frame
5. Edit the corners of the frame
6. Create structural features
7. Analyze the structure

Structure Welding 2  Chapters

Learn to weld multiple plates simultaneously, and how to modify these welds, create PMI notations on welds, and build up material using a surface weld.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Structure Welding 9 Topics

1. Structure Welding
2. Create Butt welding joints manually
3. Create T-joint welding joints manually
4. Create welding joints automatically
5. Modify welding joints
6. Create a build-up of material on a surface
7. Create a PMI symbol for a welding joint
8. Analyze and validate welds
9. Knowledge Check: Structure Welding

WAVE top-down design 2  Chapters

Learn to quickly enable the automation of updates of component designs when high-level product design changes are required.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 WAVE top-down design 14 Topics

1. WAVE top-down design part 1
2. WAVE top-down design part 2
3. Create interpart relationships in a design assembly
4. Create a design assembly
5. Define and link product interface objects
6. Create product interfaces for constraints
7. Build a machined part from a casting
8. Define a mirrored steering knuckle
9. Control and freeze interpart updates
10. Resolve broken interpart relationships
11. Reparent and map interpart relationships
12. Synchronize out of date WAVE links
13. Automatically relink geometry
14. Knowledge check: WAVE top-down design

Create curves as construction geometry 1  Chapter

Learn to create curves as construction geometry. You will also create points and point sets associative to curve geometry.

1 Create curves as construction geometry 8 Topics

1. Create curves as construction geometry
2. Create points and point sets
3. Combining curves with Composite Curve
4. Change shape by template
5. Simplify a spline
6. Create associative section curves
7. Divide curves
8. Knowledge check: Create curves as construction geometry

Advanced Assemblies - 1980 5  Chapters

Learn to work with, manipulate, and analyze large assemblies.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Component Grouping - 1980 13 Topics

1. Component Grouping
2. Create and use Component Groups
3. Working with component groups for a pedal car
4. Use attributes to add materials to component groups
5. Add components based on size to the component group
6. Proximity component groups
7. Create a proximity component group
8. Define a component group and use bookmarks
9. Box zones
10. Use two points to define a box zone
11. Create a box zone
12. Knowledge check: Component Grouping
13. Principle Lab: Create component groups

3 Assembly representations - 1980 4 Topics

1. Assembly representations
2. Create and display Representations
3. Create representations at the assembly level
4. Knowledge check: Assembly representations

4 Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature - 1980 7 Topics

1. Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature
2. Create a Wrap Assembly
3. Create a wrap to enclose an assembly
4. Create a Linked Exterior feature
5. Creating and using a linked exterior
6. Simplify a pump assembly
7. Knowledge check: Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature

5 Advanced mass properties - 1980 6 Topics

1. Advanced mass properties
2. Advanced weight management
3. Calculate weight data
4. Review the mass properties of a design
5. Use exceptions and modify weight values
6. Knowledge check: Advanced mass properties

Documenting with Drafting - 1980 9  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing - 1980 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views - 1980 19 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
6. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
7. Secondary Geometry
8. Use Secondary Geometry in a drawing view
9. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
10. Delete views and drawing sheets
11. How do I create a custom view?
12. Create a custom view
13. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
14. Move and align a drafting view
15. Move and align a drafting view
16. Update a drawing
17. Update a drawing
18. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
19. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions - 1980 10 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create dimensions with appended text
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Change the settings of existing dimensions
7. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
8. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
9. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
10. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations - 1980 20 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Add a part family table to a drawing
9. Create and edit balloon symbols
10. Create balloon symbols with leaders
11. GD&T symbols
12. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
13. Create surface finish symbols
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Create and place custom symbols
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Identify and edit retained annotations
18. Edit associativity to model geometry
19. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
20. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views - 1980 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings - 1980 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings - 1980 23 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create tracelines in an exploded view
10. Add tracelines to an exploded view
11. Part Attributes
12. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
13. Using part attributes and object attributes
14. Assign part attributes
15. Create part attributes for a parts list
16. Add columns to a parts list
17. Place and configure a parts list
18. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
19. Sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
21. Add balloons to a drafting view
22. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
23. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing

9 Assessment: Documenting with Drafting - 1980 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Documenting with Drafting

Sheet Metal Design - 1980 9  Chapters

Create machinery, enclosures, etc. normally manufactured with a brake press. Create and build on base features with advanced features like gussets and louvers.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part -1980 23 Topics

1. Define the basic shape of a Sheet Metal part
2. Construct Base Features
3. Create a tab with various bend references
4. Set global parameters and create a Tab feature
5. Create a Multi-Bend Tab
6. Create multiple flanges
7. Add flanges to the edges of another flange
8. Edit flanges
9. Create multiple Flanges in one feature
10. Design a brace for a locker door
11. Design a sheet metal part starting with a contour flange
12. Form flanges and miter corners
13. Create a Lofted Flange
14. Design a sheet metal part starting with a lofted flange
15. Design a sheet metal part with a multi-segment lofted flange
16. Create a Hem Flange
17. Fold edges of sheet metal parts
18. Create a Jog
19. Add jogs to create a U-shaped part
20. Sheet metal from solid
21. Convert faces of a solid model to a sheet metal part
22. Knowledge Check: Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part
23. Principle Lab: Secondary Contour Flange

3 Bending sheets - 1980 7 Topics

1. Bending Sheets
2. Bend, Unbend, and Rebend
3. Add bends to a blank
4. Unbend and rebend features
5. Working with Bridge Bends
6. Create a Bridge Bend
7. Knowledge Check: Bending sheets

4 Add cutouts and close uneven corners - 1980 16 Topics

1. Add cutouts and close uneven corners
2. Create a perpendicular cutout
3. Create cutouts perpendicular to faces
4. Create cutouts using 3D curves
5. Add tapered flanges to a base tab feature
6. Create tapered flanges
7. Create reverse tapers that start at the bend
8. Eliminate gaps between adjacent bends with closed corners
9. Create closed corners
10. Close uneven corners
11. Three bend corner
12. Close a corner where three adjacent bends meet
13. Smooth and blend sharp corners
14. Remove sharp corners
15. Knowledge Check: Add cutouts and close uneven corners
16. Principle Lab: Create cutouts across bend regions

5 Create deform features - 1980 17 Topics

1. Create deform features
2. Add a Dimple feature
3. Create a Dimple feature
4. Drawn Cutout
5. Create a Drawn Cutout
6. Create a vented area on a sheet metal component using Louver
7. Create a Louver feature
8. U-Shaped Bead
9. Create a Circular Bead
10. Create a U-Shaped Bead
11. Add beads to bend regions
12. Solid Punch
13. Create a Solid Punch feature
14. Strengthen a part by creating a square gusset
15. Create a gusset feature
16. Knowledge Check: Create deform features
17. Principle Lab: Create a pattern of louvers

6 Prepare a part for manufacturing - 1980 8 Topics

1. Prepare a part for manufacturing
2. Flatten a formed part and create a flat pattern view for downstream use
3. Flatten a solid part and create a flat pattern view
4. Edit the Flat Pattern Bend Sequence
5. Use Analyze Formability – One-step
6. Analyze Formability – One-step
7. Knowledge Check: Prepare a part for manufacturing
8. Principle Lab: Create a flat pattern

7 Convert solid models to sheet metal parts - 1980 10 Topics

1. Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
2. Clean up the imported part and convert it to a sheet metal part
3. Convert a parasolid file to a sheet metal part
4. Rip
5. Create non-uniform bends
6. Resize a bend radius
7. Resize Bend Angle
8. Show interim forming stages of sheet metal bends
9. Knowledge Check: Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
10. Principle Lab: Convert a non-sheet metal part

8 Sheet Metal Design - Advanced - 1980 10 Topics

1. Sheet Metal Design - Advanced
2. Advanced Flange
3. Create an Advanced Flange
4. Unbend and rebend an Advanced Flange feature
5. Create an Advanced Flange to reference
6. Lightening Cutout
7. Add a Lightening Cutout feature
8. Create a joggle
9. Create a Joggle feature on a flange
10. Knowledge Check: Sheet Metal Design - Advanced

9 Assessment: Sheet Metal Design - 1980 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Sheet Metal Design

Structure Designer - 1980 1  Chapter

Quickly create frames and other metal structures for machines and other equipment.

1 Structure Designer - 1980 7 Topics

1. Structure Designer
2. New Structure and Frame
3. Create members for the frame
4. Edit members of the frame
5. Edit the corners of the frame
6. Create structural features
7. Analyze the structure

Polygon Modeling and Reverse Engineering - 1953 7  Chapters

Learn to create, modify, and improve faceted models using the NX Polygon Modeling capabilities

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to Polygon Modeling - 1953 2 Topics

1. Introduction to Polygon Modeling
2. KC: Introduction to Polygon Modeling

3 Using the Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 1953 23 Topics

1. Extrude Facet Body
2. Extrude Profile
3. Clean Up Facet Body
4. Lab: Clean Up Facet Body
5. Remesh Facet Body
6. Snip Facet Body
7. Fill Hole
8. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 1
9. Decimate Facets
10. Subdivide Facets
11. Divide Facet Faces
12. Paint Facet Body
13. Smooth Facets
14. Create Transitions
15. Adjust Minimum Radius
16. Local Offset
17. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 2
18. Combine Facet Bodies
19. Merge Touching
20. Align by Points
21. Align by Multi Patch
22. Lab: Polygon Operations
23. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 3

4 Using the Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar - 1953 10 Topics

1. Convert Facet Body
2. Plug Holes and Wrap Mesh
3. Facet Body From Body
4. Mesh from Cloud
5. Detect Primitives
6. Using the Texture Task Environment with a Rip Edge
7. Facet Body Curvature
8. Extract Curvature Areas
9. Using the Texture Task Environment
10. KC: Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar

5 Using the Polygon Modeling Morph Mesh Task Environment - 1953 3 Topics

1. Creating and Deleting Control Cages
2. Transform Cage
3. KC: Morph Mesh Task Environment

6 Reverse Engineering - 1953 15 Topics

1. Introduction to NX Reverse Engineering
2. Reverse Engineering - Rapid Surfacing
3. Reverse Engineering - Fit Surface
4. KC: Reverse Engineering Surface Fitting
5. Reverse Engineering - Xform
6. Reverse Engineering - Smooth Poles
7. Reverse Engineering - Deviation Gauge
8. Reverse Engineering - Grid Analysis
9. Reverse Engineering - Reflection Analysis
10. Lab: Reverse Engineering Shadow Curves
11. Lab: Reverse Engineering Projected Curves
12. Lab: Reverse Engineering Faces
13. Lab: Reverse Engineering Sheet Bodies
14. Lab: Reverse Engineering Finishing Details
15. KC: Reverse Engineering

7 Assessment: Polygon Modeling - 1953 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Polygon Modeling

Advanced Assemblies - 1953 5  Chapters

Learn to work with, manipulate, and analyze large assemblies.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Component Grouping - 1953 13 Topics

1. Component Grouping
2. Create and use Component Groups
3. Working with component groups for a pedal car
4. Use attributes to add materials to component groups
5. Add components based on size to the component group
6. Proximity component groups
7. Create a proximity component group
8. Define a component group and use bookmarks
9. Box zones
10. Use two points to define a box zone
11. Create a box zone
12. Knowledge check: Component Grouping
13. Principle Lab: Create component groups

3 Assembly representations - 1953 4 Topics

1. Assembly representations
2. Create and display Representations
3. Create representations at the assembly level
4. Knowledge check: Assembly representations

4 Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature - 1953 7 Topics

1. Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature
2. Create a Wrap Assembly
3. Create a wrap to enclose an assembly
4. Create a Linked Exterior feature
5. Creating and using a linked exterior
6. Simplify a pump assembly
7. Knowledge check: Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature

5 Advanced mass properties - 1953 6 Topics

1. Advanced mass properties
2. Advanced weight management
3. Calculate weight data
4. Review the mass properties of a design
5. Use exceptions and modify weight values
6. Knowledge check: Advanced mass properties

Documenting with Drafting - 1953 8  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing - 1953 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views - 1953 19 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
6. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
7. Secondary Geometry
8. Use Secondary Geometry in a drawing view
9. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
10. Delete views and drawing sheets
11. How do I create a custom view?
12. Create a custom view
13. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
14. Move and align a drafting view
15. Move and align a drafting view
16. Update a drawing
17. Update a drawing
18. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
19. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions - 1953 11 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create and edit a hole callout
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Create dimensions with appended text
7. Change the settings of existing dimensions
8. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
9. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
10. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
11. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations - 1953 19 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Create and edit balloon symbols
9. Create balloon symbols with leaders
10. GD&T symbols
11. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
12. Create surface finish symbols
13. Create and place custom symbols
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Identify and edit retained annotations
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Edit associativity to model geometry
18. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
19. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views - 1953 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings - 1953 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings - 1953 23 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create tracelines in an exploded view
10. Add tracelines to an exploded view
11. Part Attributes
12. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
13. Using part attributes and object attributes
14. Assign part attributes
15. Create part attributes for a parts list
16. Add columns to a parts list
17. Place and configure a parts list
18. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
19. Sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
21. Add balloons to a drafting view
22. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
23. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing

Sheet Metal Design - 1953 8  Chapters

Create machinery, enclosures, etc. normally manufactured with a brake press. Create and build on base features with advanced features like gussets and louvers.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part - 1953 23 Topics

1. Define the basic shape of a Sheet Metal part
2. Construct Base Features
3. Create a tab with various bend references
4. Set global parameters and create a Tab feature
5. Create a Multi-Bend Tab
6. Create multiple flanges
7. Add flanges to the edges of another flange
8. Edit flanges
9. Create multiple Flanges in one feature
10. Design a brace for a locker door
11. Design a sheet metal part starting with a contour flange
12. Form flanges and miter corners
13. Create a Lofted Flange
14. Design a sheet metal part starting with a lofted flange
15. Design a sheet metal part with a multi-segment lofted flange
16. Create a Hem Flange
17. Fold edges of sheet metal parts
18. Create a Jog
19. Add jogs to create a U-shaped part
20. Sheet metal from solid
21. Convert faces of a solid model to a sheet metal part
22. Knowledge Check: Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part
23. Principle Lab: Secondary Contour Flange

3 Bending sheets - 1953 7 Topics

1. Bending Sheets
2. Bend, Unbend, and Rebend
3. Add bends to a blank
4. Unbend and rebend features
5. Working with Bridge Bends
6. Create a Bridge Bend
7. Knowledge Check: Bending sheets

4 Add cutouts and close uneven corners - 1953 16 Topics

1. Add cutouts and close uneven corners
2. Create a perpendicular cutout
3. Create cutouts perpendicular to faces
4. Create cutouts using 3D curves
5. Add tapered flanges to a base tab feature
6. Create tapered flanges
7. Create reverse tapers that start at the bend
8. Eliminate gaps between adjacent bends with closed corners
9. Create closed corners
10. Close uneven corners
11. Three bend corner
12. Close a corner where three adjacent bends meet
13. Smooth and blend sharp corners
14. Remove sharp corners
15. Knowledge Check: Add cutouts and close uneven corners
16. Principle Lab: Create cutouts across bend regions

5 Create deform features - 1953 17 Topics

1. Create deform features
2. Add a Dimple feature
3. Create a Dimple feature
4. Drawn Cutout
5. Create a Drawn Cutout
6. Create a vented area on a sheet metal component using Louver
7. Create a Louver feature
8. U-Shaped Bead
9. Create a Circular Bead
10. Create a U-Shaped Bead
11. Add beads to bend regions
12. Solid Punch
13. Create a Solid Punch feature
14. Strengthen a part by creating a square gusset
15. Create a gusset feature
16. Knowledge Check: Create deform features
17. Principle Lab: Create a pattern of louvers

6 Prepare a part for manufacturing - 1953 8 Topics

1. Prepare a part for manufacturing
2. Flatten a formed part and create a flat pattern view for downstream use
3. Flatten a solid part and create a flat pattern view
4. Edit the Flat Pattern Bend Sequence
5. Use Analyze Formability – One-step
6. Analyze Formability – One-step
7. Knowledge Check: Prepare a part for manufacturing
8. Principle Lab: Create a flat pattern

7 Convert solid models to sheet metal parts - 1953 10 Topics

1. Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
2. Clean up the imported part and convert it to a sheet metal part
3. Convert a parasolid file to a sheet metal part
4. Rip
5. Create non-uniform bends
6. Resize a bend radius
7. Resize Bend Angle
8. Show interim forming stages of sheet metal bends
9. Knowledge Check: Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
10. Principle Lab: Convert a non-sheet metal part

8 Sheet Metal Design - Advanced - 1953 10 Topics

1. Sheet Metal Design - Advanced
2. Advanced Flange
3. Create an Advanced Flange
4. Unbend and rebend an Advanced Flange feature
5. Create an Advanced Flange to reference
6. Lightening Cutout
7. Add a Lightening Cutout feature
8. Create a joggle
9. Create a Joggle feature on a flange
10. Knowledge Check: Sheet Metal Design - Advanced

NX Surface Modeling Processes - 1953 15  Chapters

Learn to create freeform parts that update reliably and shift smoothly to the manufacturing application.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to surface modeling processes - 1953 4 Topics

1. Introduction to freeform surface modeling
2. Preparing to create freeform features
3. Create associative curves
4. Knowledge Check: Introduction to surface modeling processes

3 Use 3D curves as construction geometry - 1953 24 Topics

1. Use 3D curves as construction geometry
2. Create intersection and projected curves
3. Projected curves
4. Intersection curves
5. Shadow Curves
6. Review line of sight using shadow curves
7. Combined projection to create a tube
8. Create a tube using combined projection
9. Create a transition using bridge curves
10. Use bridge curves to create a transition
11. Create a helix and a transition using bridge curves
12. Build a contact spring
13. Create offset curves
14. Create 3D axial offset curves
15. Create a spring using a 3D offset curve
16. Create Offset in Face curves
17. Create Offset in Face curves
18. Create a curve on a surface
19. Wrap Curves on a developable surface
20. Flatten and form geometry onto a 3D face
21. Form a label profile to a 3D face
22. Control distortion when flattening faces
23. Knowledge Check: Use 3D curves as construction geometry
24. Create associative curves

4 Build robust models - 1953 16 Topics

1. Build robust models
2. Define a template part
3. Define a template part
4. Create holes positioned on a bolt circle
5. Design groups
6. Explore design groups
7. Create a design group to partition a model
8. Using fillets in a sketch profile
9. Begin a water bottle model
10. Add threads to a water bottle
11. Model text for a water bottle
12. Combine bodies using robust techniques
13. Define grip grooves for a bottle
14. Combine features to complete the bottle
15. Knowledge Check: Build robust models
16. Add part number text to the cover

5 Create and analyze high quality curves - 1953 15 Topics

1. Create and analyze high quality curves
2. Create and modify Studio Splines
3. Constrain spline poles
4. Create studio splines using points
5. Create studio splines using poles
6. Edit a spline
7. Move poles of splines and define tangency
8. Create a tube using shop measured points
9. Framing raw data
10. Trim curves
11. Extend splines by using natural trim
12. Curve Analysis
13. Get information about a spline
14. Knowledge check: Create and analyze high quality curves
15. Evaluate spline data and create new splines using Fit Curves

6 Use mesh surfaces to define primary features - 1953 14 Topics

1. Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
2. Create and edit a ruled surface
3. Create a developable surface
4. Create a transition surface
5. Through curves parameter and arc length alignment
6. Through curves surface with by points orientation
7. Create a ceramic water tank
8. Define a Through Curve Mesh surface
9. Create a housing using through curve mesh
10. Create surfaces with tangent constraints
11. Create N-sided surfaces to enclose adjacent freeform shapes
12. Add a push-up surface to a spray bottle
13. Knowledge check: Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
14. Define an initial mesh surface for a motorcycle helmet

7 Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces - 1953 5 Topics

1. Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces
2. Create studio surfaces
3. Create studio surfaces
4. Define surfaces for a shaver housing
5. Knowledge check: Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

8 Sweep sections to start a design - 1953 12 Topics

1. Sweep sections to start a design
2. Define a path and create a Swept feature
3. Create a compression spring
4. Sweep a frame section by another curve
5. Create an exhaust pipe using an area law
6. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
7. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
8. Using variational sweep and sketch on path
9. Using the swept volume command
10. Model a camshaft follower path
11. Knowledge check: Sweep sections to start a design
12. Create primary sheets for a body panel

9 Build parts using exact geometry - 1953 7 Topics

1. Build parts using exact geometry
2. Using splines and bounded planes
3. Use sew and thicken
4. Using through curves to model sand-casted flange
5. Sweep using two guides to create a fairing
6. Knowledge check: Build parts using exact geometry
7. Complete the gas tank for a go-kart

10 Overbuild surfaces to create a part - 1953 17 Topics

1. Overbuild surfaces to create a part
2. Trim Sheet and Thicken
3. Create a variable section brake lever
4. Complete the hinge using sew and thicken
5. Complete some geometry using Combine
6. Extend a surface to a profile
7. Add finger grooves to a spray bottle
8. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
9. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
10. Modify a sheet using Local Untrim and Extend
11. Snip hood surfaces
12. Design a receptacle case using offset surfaces
13. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
14. Design a heat shield
15. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
16. Knowledge check: Overbuild surfaces to create a part
17. Create a shoe horn using overbuilding

11 Define transitional geometry - 1953 14 Topics

1. Define transitional geometry
2. Build a transition using a section surface
3. Create wing surfaces using Section Surfaces
4. Build a transition using a section surface
5. Create a bridge surface
6. Create a bridge surface to finish the design of a utv hood
7. Create a Face Blend
8. Create face blends using constraint curves
9. Create an aesthetic face blend
10. Blend the shaver housing
11. Simplify a corner using fill surface
12. Use blend corner to create a transition surface
13. Knowledge check: Define transitional geometry
14. Create transition sheets for a body panel

12 Analyze the quality of freeform geometry - 1953 13 Topics

1. Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
2. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
3. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
4. Use face analysis to examine surface quality
5. Check draft using slope analysis
6. Check draft using slope analysis
7. Local Radius Analysis
8. Analyze a face to find a minimum radius
9. Examine and repair model geometry
10. Analyze edge deviations for sewn sheets
11. Examine and repair model geometry
12. Knowledge check: Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
13. Analyze body panel sheets

13 Use surfaces to add definition to a solid - 1953 12 Topics

1. Use surfaces to add definition to a solid
2. Using Law Extensions
3. Create a punch using law extensions
4. Patch surfaces
5. Patch surfaces onto a security fob
6. Patch a surface onto an existing part
7. Create knurling using an algorithmic feature
8. Create a matched parting line
9. Use draft body to remove an undercut
10. Using Emboss
11. Emboss a fog light panel
12. Knowledge check: Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

14 Deform surfaces for manufacturing - 1953 6 Topics

1. Deform surfaces for manufacturing
2. Global Shaping
3. Deform a solid body to be used in an extrusion die
4. Use global shaping to twist a surface
5. Overbend a sheet metal lever
6. Knowledge check: Deform surfaces for manufacturing

15 Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering - 1953 16 Topics

1. Import and manipulate raster images
2. Import and manipulate raster images
3. Scale a raster image using reference points
4. Designing with scanned geometry
5. Reverse engineering
6. Smooth curve string
7. Smooth a curve string for a container
8. Snip and replace facets
9. Refine a design using polygon modeling
10. Snip a facet region
11. Snip a facet region using scan data
12. Use imported facet geometry to create a mold
13. Create a mold insert using an STL file
14. Import and clean up scanned geometry
15. Modify facet models
16. Knowledge check: Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering

Advanced Assemblies - 1926 5  Chapters

Learn to work with, manipulate, and analyze large assemblies.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Component Grouping - 1926 13 Topics

1. Component Grouping
2. Create and use Component Groups
3. Working with component groups for a pedal car
4. Use attributes to add materials to component groups
5. Add components based on size to the component group
6. Proximity component groups
7. Create a proximity component group
8. Define a component group and use bookmarks
9. Box zones
10. Use two points to define a box zone
11. Create a box zone
12. Knowledge check: Component Grouping
13. Principle Lab: Create component groups

3 Assembly representations - 1926 4 Topics

1. Assembly representations
2. Create and display Representations
3. Create representations at the assembly level
4. Knowledge check: Assembly representations

4 Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature - 1926 6 Topics

1. Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature
2. Create a Wrap Assembly
3. Create a wrap to enclose an assembly
4. Create a Linked Exterior feature
5. Creating and using a linked exterior
6. Knowledge check: Wrap Assembly and Linked Exterior Feature

5 Advanced mass properties - 1926 6 Topics

1. Advanced mass properties
2. Advanced weight management
3. Calculate weight data
4. Review the mass properties of a design
5. Use exceptions and modify weight values
6. Knowledge check: Advanced mass properties

NX Join - 1953 2  Chapters

Learn to quickly place and define fasteners and hardware as well as improve quality of fastener assembly design.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Add hardware to an assembly - 1953 7 Topics

1. Add hardware to an assembly
2. Add fasteners using point join
3. Defining overlap curves and point layouts
4. Add rivets using points
5. Edit the parameters of a join feature
6. Create PMI notes for Join features
7. Knowledge check: NX Join

Weld Assistant - 1953 5  Chapters

Learn to create different types of welds, adhesives, mastics, and sealers. You will also import welds and create weld annotations in a drawing sheet.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Creating arc welds - 1953 6 Topics

1. Creating arc welds
2. Check weld defaults and objects
3. Create groove welds for piping
4. Create fillet and compound welds
5. Define and copy plug welds
6. Create a customized weld profile

3 Generate spot welds - 1953 3 Topics

1. Generating spot welds
2. Define and modify multiple weld points
3. Create weld points using Easy Spot

4 Adhesives, Mastics, and Sealers - 1953 3 Topics

1. Adhesives, Mastics, and Sealers
2. Create a bead along a seam
3. Generate sealer strips using Fill

5 Validate and Document Welds - 1953 4 Topics

1. Validating and documenting welds - Part 1
2. Validating and documenting welds - Part 2
3. Analyze and validate welds
4. Generate weld annotations automatically

Structure Designer - 1953 1  Chapter

Quickly create frames and other metal structures for machines and other equipment.

1 Structure Designer - 1953 7 Topics

1. Structure Designer
2. New Structure and Frame
3. Create members for the frame
4. Edit members of the frame
5. Edit the corners of the frame
6. Create structural features
7. Analyze the structure

Structure Welding - 1953 2  Chapters

Learn to weld multiple plates simultaneously, and how to modify these welds, create PMI notations on welds, and build up material using a surface weld.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Structure Welding - 1953 9 Topics

1. Structure Welding
2. Create Butt welding joints manually
3. Create T-joint welding joints manually
4. Create welding joints automatically
5. Modify welding joints
6. Create a build-up of material on a surface
7. Create a PMI symbol for a welding joint
8. Analyze and validate welds
9. Knowledge Check: Structure Welding

Documenting with Drafting - 1926 8  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing - 1926 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views - 1926 17 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
6. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
7. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
8. Delete views and drawing sheets
9. How do I create a custom view?
10. Create a custom view
11. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
12. Move and align a drafting view
13. Move and align a drafting view
14. Update a drawing
15. Update a drawing
16. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
17. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions - 1926 11 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create and edit a hole callout
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Create dimensions with appended text
7. Change the settings of existing dimensions
8. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
9. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
10. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
11. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations - 1926 19 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Create and edit balloon symbols
9. Create balloon symbols with leaders
10. GD&T symbols
11. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
12. Create surface finish symbols
13. Add custom symbols to your drawing
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Identify and edit retained annotations
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Edit associativity to model geometry
18. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
19. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views - 1926 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings - 1926 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings - 1926 23 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create tracelines in an exploded view
10. Add tracelines to an exploded view
11. Part Attributes
12. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
13. Using part attributes and object attributes
14. Assign part attributes
15. Create part attributes for a parts list
16. Add columns to a parts list
17. Place and configure a parts list
18. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
19. Sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
21. Add balloons to a drafting view
22. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
23. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing

Sheet Metal Design - 1926 8  Chapters

Create machinery, enclosures, etc. normally manufactured with a brake press. Create and build on base features with advanced features like gussets and louvers.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part - 1926 23 Topics

1. Define the basic shape of a Sheet Metal part
2. Construct Base Features
3. Create a tab with various bend references
4. Set global parameters and create a Tab feature
5. Create a Multi-Bend Tab
6. Create multiple flanges
7. Add flanges to the edges of another flange
8. Edit flanges
9. Create multiple Flanges in one feature
10. Design a brace for a locker door
11. Design a sheet metal part starting with a contour flange
12. Form flanges and miter corners
13. Create a Lofted Flange
14. Design a sheet metal part starting with a lofted flange
15. Design a sheet metal part with a multi-segment lofted flange
16. Create a Hem Flange
17. Fold edges of sheet metal parts
18. Create a Jog
19. Add jogs to create a U-shaped part
20. Sheet metal from solid
21. Convert faces of a solid model to a sheet metal part
22. Knowledge Check: Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part
23. Principle Lab: Secondary Contour Flange

3 Bending sheets - 1926 7 Topics

1. Bending Sheets
2. Bend, Unbend, and Rebend
3. Add bends to a blank
4. Unbend and rebend features
5. Working with Bridge Bends
6. Create a Bridge Bend
7. Knowledge Check: Bending sheets

4 Add cutouts and close uneven corners - 1926 16 Topics

1. Add cutouts and close uneven corners
2. Create a perpendicular cutout
3. Create cutouts perpendicular to faces
4. Create cutouts using 3D curves
5. Add tapered flanges to a base tab feature
6. Create tapered flanges
7. Create reverse tapers that start at the bend
8. Eliminate gaps between adjacent bends with closed corners
9. Create closed corners
10. Close uneven corners
11. Three bend corner
12. Close a corner where three adjacent bends meet
13. Smooth and blend sharp corners
14. Remove sharp corners
15. Knowledge Check: Add cutouts and close uneven corners
16. Principle Lab: Create cutouts across bend regions

5 Create deform features - 1926 17 Topics

1. Create deform features
2. Add a Dimple feature
3. Create a Dimple feature
4. Drawn Cutout
5. Create a Drawn Cutout
6. Create a vented area on a sheet metal component using Louver
7. Create a Louver feature
8. U-Shaped Bead
9. Create a Circular Bead
10. Create a U-Shaped Bead
11. Add beads to bend regions
12. Solid Punch
13. Create a Solid Punch feature
14. Strengthen a part by creating a square gusset
15. Create a gusset feature
16. Knowledge Check: Create deform features
17. Principle Lab: Create a pattern of louvers

6 Prepare a part for manufacturing - 1926 8 Topics

1. Prepare a part for manufacturing
2. Flatten a formed part and create a flat pattern view for downstream use
3. Flatten a solid part and create a flat pattern view
4. Edit the Flat Pattern Bend Sequence
5. Use Analyze Formability – One-step
6. Analyze Formability – One-step
7. Knowledge Check: Prepare a part for manufacturing
8. Principle Lab: Create a flat pattern

7 Convert solid models to sheet metal parts - 1926 10 Topics

1. Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
2. Clean up the imported part and convert it to a sheet metal part
3. Convert a parasolid file to a sheet metal part
4. Rip
5. Create non-uniform bends
6. Resize a bend radius
7. Resize Bend Angle
8. Show interim forming stages of sheet metal bends
9. Knowledge Check: Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
10. Principle Lab: Convert a non-sheet metal part

8 Sheet Metal Design - Advanced - 1926 10 Topics

1. Sheet Metal Design - Advanced
2. Advanced Flange
3. Create an Advanced Flange
4. Unbend and rebend an Advanced Flange feature
5. Create an Advanced Flange to reference
6. Lightening Cutout
7. Add a Lightening Cutout feature
8. Create a joggle
9. Create a Joggle feature on a flange
10. Knowledge Check: Sheet Metal Design - Advanced

NX Surface Modeling Processes - 1926 15  Chapters

Learn to create freeform parts that update reliably and shift smoothly to the manufacturing application.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to surface modeling processes - 1926 4 Topics

1. Introduction to freeform surface modeling
2. Preparing to create freeform features
3. Overview of freeform features
4. Knowledge Check: Introduction to surface modeling processes

3 Use 3D curves as construction geometry - 1926 24 Topics

1. Use 3D curves as construction geometry
2. Create intersection and projected curves
3. Projected curves
4. Intersection curves
5. Shadow Curves
6. Review line of sight using shadow curves
7. Combined projection to create a tube
8. Create a tube using combined projection
9. Create a transition using bridge curves
10. Use bridge curves to create a transition
11. Create a helix and a transition using bridge curves
12. Build a contact spring
13. Create offset curves
14. Create 3D axial offset curves
15. Create a spring using a 3D offset curve
16. Create Offset in Face curves
17. Create Offset in Face curves
18. Create a curve on a surface
19. Wrap Curves on a developable surface
20. Flatten and form geometry onto a 3D face
21. Form a label profile to a 3D face
22. Control distortion when flattening faces
23. Knowledge Check: Use 3D curves as construction geometry
24. Create associative curves

4 Build robust models - 1926 15 Topics

1. Build robust models
2. Define a template part
3. Define a template part
4. Create holes positioned on a bolt circle
5. Design groups
6. Using fillets in a sketch profile
7. Begin a water bottle model
8. Modeling custom threads​
9. Add threads to a water bottle
10. Model text for a water bottle
11. Combine bodies using robust techniques
12. Define grip grooves for a bottle
13. Combine features to complete the bottle
14. Knowledge Check: Build robust models
15. Add part number text to the cover

5 Create and analyze high quality curves - 1926 15 Topics

1. Create and analyze high quality curves
2. Create and modify Studio Splines
3. Constrain spline poles
4. Create studio splines using points
5. Create studio splines using poles
6. Edit a spline
7. Move poles of splines and define tangency
8. Create a tube using shop measured points
9. Framing raw data
10. Trim curves
11. Extend splines by using natural trim
12. Curve Analysis
13. Get information about a spline
14. Knowledge check: Create and analyze high quality curves
15. Evaluate spline data and create new splines using Fit Curves

6 Use mesh surfaces to define primary features - 1926 14 Topics

1. Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
2. Create and edit a ruled surface
3. Create a developable surface
4. Create a transition surface
5. Through curves parameter and arc length alignment
6. Through curves surface with by points orientation
7. Create a ceramic water tank
8. Define a Through Curve Mesh surface
9. Create a housing using through curve mesh
10. Create surfaces with tangent constraints
11. Create N-sided surfaces to enclose adjacent freeform shapes
12. Add a push-up surface to a spray bottle
13. Knowledge check: Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
14. Define an initial mesh surface for a motorcycle helmet

7 Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces - 1926 5 Topics

1. Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces
2. Create studio surfaces
3. Create studio surfaces
4. Define surfaces for a shaver housing
5. Knowledge check: Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

8 Sweep sections to start a design - 1926 12 Topics

1. Sweep sections to start a design
2. Define a path and create a Swept feature
3. Create a compression spring
4. Sweep a frame section by another curve
5. Create an exhaust pipe using an area law
6. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
7. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
8. Using variational sweep and sketch on path
9. Using the swept volume command
10. Model a camshaft follower path
11. Knowledge check: Sweep sections to start a design
12. Create primary sheets for a body panel

9 Build parts using exact geometry - 1926 7 Topics

1. Build parts using exact geometry
2. Using splines and bounded planes
3. Use sew and thicken
4. Using through curves to model sand-casted flange
5. Sweep using two guides to create a fairing
6. Knowledge check: Build parts using exact geometry
7. Complete the gas tank for a go-kart

10 Overbuild surfaces to create a part - 1926 17 Topics

1. Overbuild surfaces to create a part
2. Trim Sheet and Thicken
3. Create a variable section brake lever
4. Complete the hinge using sew and thicken
5. Complete some geometry using Combine
6. Extend a surface to a profile
7. Add finger grooves to a spray bottle
8. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
9. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
10. Modify a sheet using Local Untrim and Extend
11. Snip hood surfaces
12. Design a receptacle case using offset surfaces
13. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
14. Design a heat shield
15. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
16. Knowledge check: Overbuild surfaces to create a part
17. Create a shoe horn using overbuilding

11 Define transitional geometry - 1926 14 Topics

1. Define transitional geometry
2. Build a transition using a section surface
3. Create wing surfaces using Section Surfaces
4. Build a transition using a section surface
5. Create a bridge surface
6. Create a bridge surface to finish the design of a utv hood
7. Create a Face Blend
8. Create face blends using constraint curves
9. Create an aesthetic face blend
10. Blend the shaver housing
11. Simplify a corner using fill surface
12. Use blend corner to create a transition surface
13. Knowledge check: Define transitional geometry
14. Create transition sheets for a body panel

12 Analyze the quality of freeform geometry - 1926 13 Topics

1. Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
2. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
3. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
4. Use face analysis to examine surface quality
5. Check draft using slope analysis
6. Check draft using slope analysis
7. Local Radius Analysis
8. Analyze a face to find a minimum radius
9. Examine and repair model geometry
10. Analyze edge deviations for sewn sheets
11. Examine and repair model geometry
12. Knowledge check: Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
13. Analyze body panel sheets

13 Use surfaces to add definition to a solid - 1926 11 Topics

1. Use surfaces to add definition to a solid
2. Using Law Extensions
3. Create a punch using law extensions
4. Patch surfaces
5. Patch surfaces onto a security fob
6. Patch a surface onto an existing part
7. Create a matched parting line
8. Use draft body to remove an undercut
9. Using Emboss
10. Emboss a fog light panel
11. Knowledge check: Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

14 Deform surfaces for manufacturing - 1926 6 Topics

1. Deform surfaces for manufacturing
2. Global Shaping
3. Deform a solid body to be used in an extrusion die
4. Use global shaping to twist a surface
5. Overbend a sheet metal lever
6. Knowledge check: Deform surfaces for manufacturing

15 Rapid Prototyping/Reverse Engineering - 1926 17 Topics

1. Import and manipulate raster images
2. Import and manipulate raster images
3. Scale a raster image using reference points
4. Designing with scanned geometry
5. Reverse engineering
6. Smooth curve string
7. Smooth a curve string for a container
8. Snip and replace facets
9. Refine a design using polygon modeling
10. Snip a facet region
11. Snip a facet region using scan data
12. Use imported facet geometry to create a mold
13. Create a mold insert using an STL file
14. Import and clean up scanned geometry
15. Modify facet models
16. Rebuild a broken part using reverse engineering
17. Knowledge check: Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering

Polygon Modeling and Reverse Engineering - 1899 7  Chapters

Learn to create, modify, and improve faceted models using the NX Polygon Modeling capabilities

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to Polygon Modeling - 1899 2 Topics

1. Introduction to Polygon Modeling
2. KC: Introduction to Polygon Modeling

3 Using the Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 1899 23 Topics

1. Extrude Facet Body
2. Extrude Profile
3. Clean Up Facet Body
4. Lab: Clean Up Facet Body
5. Remesh Facet Body
6. Snip Facet Body
7. Fill Hole
8. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 1
9. Decimate Facets
10. Subdivide Facets
11. Divide Facet Faces
12. Paint Facet Body
13. Smooth Facets
14. Create Transitions
15. Adjust Minimum Radius
16. Local Offset
17. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 2
18. Combine Facet Bodies
19. Merge Touching
20. Align by Points
21. Align by Multi Patch
22. Lab: Polygon Operations
23. KC: Polygon Modeling Task Environment - 3

4 Using the Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar - 1899 9 Topics

1. Convert Facet Body
2. Facet Body From Body
3. Mesh from Cloud
4. Detect Primitives
5. Using the Texture Task Environment with a Rip Edge
6. Facet Body Curvature
7. Extract Curvature Areas
8. Using the Texture Task Environment
9. KC: Polygon Modeling Ribbon Bar

5 Using the Polygon Modeling Morph Mesh Task Environment - 1899 3 Topics

1. Creating and Deleting Control Cages
2. Transform Cage
3. KC: Morph Mesh Task Environment

6 Reverse Engineering - 1899 15 Topics

1. Introduction to NX Reverse Engineering
2. Reverse Engineering - Rapid Surfacing
3. Reverse Engineering - Fit Surface
4. KC: Reverse Engineering Surface Fitting
5. Reverse Engineering - Xform
6. Reverse Engineering - Smooth Poles
7. Reverse Engineering - Deviation Gauge
8. Reverse Engineering - Grid Analysis
9. Reverse Engineering - Reflection Analysis
10. Lab: Reverse Engineering Shadow Curves
11. Lab: Reverse Engineering Projected Curves
12. Lab: Reverse Engineering Faces
13. Lab: Reverse Engineering Sheet Bodies
14. Lab: Reverse Engineering Finishing Details
15. KC: Reverse Engineering

7 Assessment: Polygon Modeling - 1899 1 Topic

1. Assessment: Polygon Modeling

Sheet Metal Design - 1899 8  Chapters

Create machinery, enclosures, etc. normally manufactured with a brake press. Create and build on base features with advanced features like gussets and louvers.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part - 1899 23 Topics

1. Define the basic shape of a Sheet Metal part
2. Construct Base Features
3. Create a tab with various bend references
4. Set global parameters and create a Tab feature
5. Create a Multi-Bend Tab
6. Create multiple flanges
7. Add flanges to the edges of another flange
8. Edit flanges
9. Create multiple Flanges in one feature
10. Design a brace for a locker door
11. Design a sheet metal part starting with a contour flange
12. Form flanges and miter corners
13. Create a Lofted Flange
14. Design a sheet metal part starting with a lofted flange
15. Design a sheet metal part with a multi-segment lofted flange
16. Create a Hem Flange
17. Fold edges of sheet metal parts
18. Create a Jog
19. Add jogs to create a U-shaped part
20. Sheet metal from solid
21. Convert faces of a solid model to a sheet metal part
22. Knowledge Check: Define the basic shape of the Sheet Metal part
23. Principle Lab: Secondary Contour Flange

3 Bending sheets - 1899 7 Topics

1. Bending Sheets
2. Bend, Unbend, and Rebend
3. Add bends to a blank
4. Unbend and rebend features
5. Working with Bridge Bends
6. Create a Bridge Bend
7. Knowledge Check: Bending sheets

4 Add cutouts and close uneven corners - 1899 16 Topics

1. Add cutouts and close uneven corners
2. Create a perpendicular cutout
3. Create cutouts perpendicular to faces
4. Create cutouts using 3D curves
5. Add tapered flanges to a base tab feature
6. Create tapered flanges
7. Create reverse tapers that start at the bend
8. Eliminate gaps between adjacent bends with closed corners
9. Create closed corners
10. Close uneven corners
11. Three bend corner
12. Close a corner where three adjacent bends meet
13. Smooth and blend sharp corners
14. Remove sharp corners
15. Knowledge Check: Add cutouts and close uneven corners
16. Principle Lab: Create cutouts across bend regions

5 Create deform features - 1899 17 Topics

1. Create deform features
2. Add a Dimple feature
3. Create a Dimple feature
4. Drawn Cutout
5. Create a Drawn Cutout
6. Create a vented area on a sheet metal component using Louver
7. Create a Louver feature
8. U-Shaped Bead
9. Create a Circular Bead
10. Create a U-Shaped Bead
11. Add beads to bend regions
12. Solid Punch
13. Create a Solid Punch feature
14. Strengthen a part by creating a square gusset
15. Create a gusset feature
16. Knowledge Check: Create deform features
17. Principle Lab: Create a pattern of louvers

6 Prepare a part for manufacturing - 1899 8 Topics

1. Prepare a part for manufacturing
2. Flatten a formed part and create a flat pattern view for downstream use
3. Flatten a solid part and create a flat pattern view
4. Edit the Flat Pattern Bend Sequence
5. Use Analyze Formability – One-step
6. Analyze Formability – One-step
7. Knowledge Check: Prepare a part for manufacturing
8. Principle Lab: Create a flat pattern

7 Convert solid models to sheet metal parts - 1899 10 Topics

1. Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
2. Clean up the imported part and convert it to a sheet metal part
3. Convert a parasolid file to a sheet metal part
4. Rip
5. Create non-uniform bends
6. Resize a bend radius
7. Resize Bend Angle
8. Show interim forming stages of sheet metal bends
9. Knowledge Check: Convert solid models to sheet metal parts
10. Principle Lab: Convert a non-sheet metal part

8 Sheet Metal Design - Advanced - 1899 10 Topics

1. Sheet Metal Design - Advanced
2. Advanced Flange
3. Create an Advanced Flange
4. Unbend and rebend an Advanced Flange feature
5. Create an Advanced Flange to reference
6. Lightening Cutout
7. Add a Lightening Cutout feature
8. Create a joggle
9. Create a Joggle feature on a flange
10. Knowledge Check: Sheet Metal Design - Advanced

NX Surface Modeling Processes - 1899 14  Chapters

Learn to create freeform parts that update reliably and shift smoothly to the manufacturing application.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to surface modeling processes - 1899 4 Topics

1. Introduction to freeform surface modeling
2. Preparing to create freeform features
3. Overview of freeform features
4. Knowledge Check: Introduction to surface modeling processes

3 Use 3D curves as construction geometry - 1899 21 Topics

1. Use 3D curves as construction geometry
2. Create intersection and projected curves
3. Projected curves
4. Intersection curves
5. Combined projection to create a tube
6. Create a tube using combined projection
7. Create a transition using bridge curves
8. Use bridge curves to create a transition
9. Create a helix and a transition using bridge curves
10. Build a contact spring
11. Create offset curves
12. Create 3D axial offset curves
13. Create a spring using a 3D offset curve
14. Create Offset in Face curves
15. Create Offset in Face curves
16. Create a curve on a surface
17. Wrap Curves on a developable surface
18. Flatten and form geometry onto a 3D face
19. Form a label profile to a 3D face
20. Knowledge Check: Use 3D curves as construction geometry
21. Create associative curves

4 Create and analyze high quality curves - 1899 15 Topics

1. Create and analyze high quality curves
2. Create and modify Studio Splines
3. Constrain spline poles
4. Create studio splines using points
5. Create studio splines using poles
6. Edit a spline
7. Move poles of splines and define tangency
8. Create a tube using shop measured points
9. Framing raw data
10. Trim curves
11. Extend splines by using natural trim
12. Curve Analysis
13. Get information about a spline
14. Knowledge check: Create and analyze high quality curves
15. Evaluate spline data and create new splines using Fit Curves

5 Use mesh surfaces to define primary features - 1899 14 Topics

1. Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
2. Create and edit a ruled surface
3. Create a developable surface
4. Create a transition surface
5. Through curves parameter and arc length alignment
6. Through curves surface with by points orientation
7. Create a ceramic water tank
8. Define a Through Curve Mesh surface
9. Create a housing using through curve mesh
10. Create surfaces with tangent constraints
11. Create N-sided surfaces to enclose adjacent freeform shapes
12. Add a push-up surface to a spray bottle
13. Knowledge check: Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
14. Define an initial mesh surface for a motorcycle helmet

6 Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces - 1899 5 Topics

1. Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces
2. Create studio surfaces
3. Create studio surfaces
4. Define surfaces for a shaver housing
5. Knowledge check: Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

7 Sweep sections to start a design - 1899 13 Topics

1. Sweep sections to start a design
2. Define a path and create a Swept feature
3. Create a compression spring
4. Sweep a frame section by another curve
5. Create an exhaust pipe using an area law
6. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
7. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
8. Using variational sweep and sketch on path
9. Add threads to a water bottle
10. Using the swept volume command
11. Model a camshaft follower path
12. Knowledge check: Sweep sections to start a design
13. Create primary sheets for a body panel

8 Build parts using exact geometry - 1899 7 Topics

1. Build parts using exact geometry
2. Using splines and bounded planes
3. Use sew and thicken
4. Using through curves to model sand-casted flange
5. Sweep using two guides to create a fairing
6. Knowledge check: Build parts using exact geometry
7. Complete the gas tank for a go-kart

9 Overbuild surfaces to create a part - 1899 17 Topics

1. Overbuild surfaces to create a part
2. Trim Sheet and Thicken
3. Create a variable section brake lever
4. Complete the hinge using sew and thicken
5. Complete some geometry using Combine
6. Extend a surface to a profile
7. Add finger grooves to a spray bottle
8. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
9. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
10. Modify a sheet using Local Untrim and Extend
11. Snip hood surfaces
12. Design a receptacle case using offset surfaces
13. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
14. Design a heat shield
15. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
16. Knowledge check: Overbuild surfaces to create a part
17. Create a shoe horn using overbuilding

10 Define transitional geometry - 1899 15 Topics

1. Define transitional geometry
2. Build a transition using a section surface
3. Create wing surfaces using Section Surfaces
4. Build a transition using a section surface
5. Create a bridge surface
6. Create a bridge surface to finish the design of a utv hood
7. Create a Face Blend
8. Create face blends using constraint curves
9. Create an aesthetic face blend
10. Add definition to a model using Styled Blend
11. Blend the shaver housing
12. Simplify a corner using fill surface
13. Use blend corner to create a transition surface
14. Knowledge check: Define transitional geometry
15. Create transition sheets for a body panel

11 Analyze the quality of freeform geometry - 1899 13 Topics

1. Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
2. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
3. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
4. Use face analysis to examine surface quality
5. Check draft using slope analysis
6. Check draft using slope analysis
7. Local Radius Analysis
8. Analyze a face to find a minimum radius
9. Examine and repair model geometry
10. Analyze edge deviations for sewn sheets
11. Examine and repair model geometry
12. Knowledge check: Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
13. Analyze body panel sheets

12 Use surfaces to add definition to a solid - 1899 11 Topics

1. Use surfaces to add definition to a solid
2. Using Law Extensions
3. Create a punch using law extensions
4. Patch surfaces
5. Patch surfaces onto a security fob
6. Patch a surface onto an existing part
7. Create a matched parting line
8. Use draft body to remove an undercut
9. Using Emboss
10. Emboss a fog light panel
11. Knowledge check: Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

13 Deform surfaces for manufacturing - 1899 6 Topics

1. Deform surfaces for manufacturing
2. Global Shaping
3. Deform a solid body to be used in an extrusion die
4. Use global shaping to twist a surface
5. Overbend a sheet metal lever
6. Knowledge check: Deform surfaces for manufacturing

14 Rapid Prototyping/Reverse Engineering - 1899 20 Topics

1. Import and manipulate raster images
2. Import and manipulate raster images
3. Scale a raster image using reference points
4. Designing with scanned geometry
5. Reverse engineering
6. Smooth curve string
7. Smooth a curve string for a container
8. Snip and replace facets
9. Refine a design using polygon modeling
10. Snip a facet region
11. Snip a facet region using scan data
12. Creating precise geometry from facets
13. Fitting precise surfaces to facets
14. Reverse engineer surfaces from a scanned part
15. Use imported facet geometry to create a mold
16. Create a mold insert using an STL file
17. Import and clean up scanned geometry
18. Modify facet models
19. Rebuild a broken part using reverse engineering
20. Knowledge check: Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering

NX Surface Modeling Processes - 1872 15  Chapters

Learn to create freeform parts that update reliably and shift smoothly to the manufacturing application.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Introduction to surface modeling processes - 1872 4 Topics

1. Introduction to freeform surface modeling
2. Preparing to create freeform features
3. Overview of freeform features
4. Knowledge Check: Introduction to surface modeling processes

3 Use 3D curves as construction geometry - 1872 21 Topics

1. Use 3D curves as construction geometry
2. Create intersection and projected curves
3. Projected curves
4. Intersection curves
5. Combined projection to create a tube
6. Create a tube using combined projection
7. Create a transition using bridge curves
8. Use bridge curves to create a transition
9. Create a helix and a transition using bridge curves
10. Build a contact spring
11. Create offset curves
12. Create 3D axial offset curves
13. Create a spring using a 3D offset curve
14. Create Offset in Face curves
15. Create Offset in Face curves
16. Create a curve on a surface
17. Wrap Curves on a developable surface
18. Flatten and form geometry onto a 3D face
19. Form a label profile to a 3D face
20. Knowledge Check: Use 3D curves as construction geometry
21. Create associative curves

4 Build robust models - 1872 15 Topics

1. Build robust models
2. Define a template part
3. Define a template part
4. Robust selection techniques
5. Create holes positioned on a bolt circle
6. Using fillets in a sketch profile
7. Begin a water bottle model
8. Modeling custom threads​
9. Add threads to a water bottle
10. Model text for a water bottle
11. Combine bodies using robust techniques
12. Define grip grooves for a bottle
13. Combine features to complete the bottle
14. Knowledge Check: Build robust models
15. Add part number text to the cover

5 Create and analyze high quality curves - 1872 15 Topics

1. Create and analyze high quality curves
2. Create and modify Studio Splines
3. Constrain spline poles
4. Create studio splines using points
5. Create studio splines using poles
6. Edit a spline
7. Move poles of splines and define tangency
8. Create a tube using shop measured points
9. Framing raw data
10. Trim curves
11. Extend splines by using natural trim
12. Curve Analysis
13. Get information about a spline
14. Knowledge check: Create and analyze high quality curves
15. Evaluate spline data and create new splines using Fit Curves

6 Use mesh surfaces to define primary features - 1872 14 Topics

1. Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
2. Create and edit a ruled surface
3. Create a developable surface
4. Create a transition surface
5. Through curves parameter and arc length alignment
6. Through curves surface with by points orientation
7. Create a ceramic water tank
8. Define a Through Curve Mesh surface
9. Create a housing using through curve mesh
10. Create surfaces with tangent constraints
11. Create N-sided surfaces to enclose adjacent freeform shapes
12. Add a push-up surface to a spray bottle
13. Knowledge check: Use mesh surfaces to define primary features
14. Define an initial mesh surface for a motorcycle helmet

7 Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces - 1872 5 Topics

1. Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces
2. Create studio surfaces
3. Create studio surfaces
4. Define surfaces for a shaver housing
5. Knowledge check: Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

8 Sweep sections to start a design - 1872 13 Topics

1. Sweep sections to start a design
2. Define a path and create a Swept feature
3. Create a compression spring
4. Sweep a frame section by another curve
5. Create an exhaust pipe using an area law
6. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
7. Create a styled sweep surface with varying sections
8. Using variational sweep and sketch on path
9. Add threads to a water bottle
10. Using the swept volume command
11. Model a camshaft follower path
12. Knowledge check: Sweep sections to start a design
13. Create primary sheets for a body panel

9 Build parts using exact geometry - 1872 7 Topics

1. Build parts using exact geometry
2. Using splines and bounded planes
3. Use sew and thicken
4. Using through curves to model sand-casted flange
5. Sweep using two guides to create a fairing
6. Knowledge check: Build parts using exact geometry
7. Complete the gas tank for a go-kart

10 Overbuild surfaces to create a part - 1872 17 Topics

1. Overbuild surfaces to create a part
2. Trim Sheet and Thicken
3. Create a variable section brake lever
4. Complete the hinge using sew and thicken
5. Complete some geometry using Combine
6. Extend a surface to a profile
7. Add finger grooves to a spray bottle
8. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
9. Create a cavity using an enlarged sheet
10. Modify a sheet using Local Untrim and Extend
11. Snip hood surfaces
12. Design a receptacle case using offset surfaces
13. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
14. Design a heat shield
15. Adjust wall thickness using variable offset face
16. Knowledge check: Overbuild surfaces to create a part
17. Create a shoe horn using overbuilding

11 Define transitional geometry - 1872 15 Topics

1. Define transitional geometry
2. Build a transition using a section surface
3. Create wing surfaces using Section Surfaces
4. Build a transition using a section surface
5. Create a bridge surface
6. Create a bridge surface to finish the design of a utv hood
7. Create a Face Blend
8. Create face blends using constraint curves
9. Create an aesthetic face blend
10. Add definition to a model using Styled Blend
11. Blend the shaver housing
12. Simplify a corner using fill surface
13. Use blend corner to create a transition surface
14. Knowledge check: Define transitional geometry
15. Create transition sheets for a body panel

12 Analyze the quality of freeform geometry - 1872 12 Topics

1. Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
2. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
3. Analyze the radius and slope of faces
4. Check draft using slope analysis
5. Check draft using slope analysis
6. Local Radius Analysis
7. Analyze a face to find a minimum radius
8. Examine and repair model geometry
9. Analyze edge deviations for sewn sheets
10. Examine and repair model geometry
11. Knowledge check: Analyze the quality of freeform geometry
12. Analyze body panel sheets

13 Use surfaces to add definition to a solid - 1872 10 Topics

1. Using Law Extensions
2. Create a punch using law extensions
3. Patch surfaces
4. Patch surfaces onto a security fob
5. Patch a surface onto an existing part
6. Create a matched parting line
7. Use draft body to remove an undercut
8. Using Emboss
9. Emboss a fog light panel
10. Knowledge check: Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

14 Deform surfaces for manufacturing - 1872 6 Topics

1. Deform surfaces for manufacturing
2. Global Shaping
3. Deform a solid body to be used in an extrusion die
4. Use global shaping to twist a surface
5. Overbend a sheet metal lever
6. Knowledge check: Deform surfaces for manufacturing

15 Rapid Prototyping/Reverse Engineering - 1872 20 Topics

1. Import and manipulate raster images
2. Import and manipulate raster images
3. Scale a raster image using reference points
4. Designing with scanned geometry
5. Reverse engineering
6. Smooth curve string
7. Smooth a curve string for a container
8. Snip and replace facets
9. Refine a design using polygon modeling
10. Snip a facet region
11. Snip a facet region using scan data
12. Creating precise geometry from facets
13. Fitting precise surfaces to facets
14. Reverse engineer surfaces from a scanned part
15. Use imported facet geometry to create a mold
16. Create a mold insert using an STL file
17. Import and clean up scanned geometry
18. Modify facet models
19. Rebuild a broken part using reverse engineering
20. Knowledge check: Rapid Prototyping/ Reverse Engineering

Documenting with Drafting - 1872 8  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing - 1872 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views - 1872 19 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. How do I create a multi-view layout?
6. The View Creation Wizard
7. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
8. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
9. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
10. Delete views and drawing sheets
11. How do I create a custom view?
12. Create a custom view
13. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
14. Move and align a drafting view
15. Move and align a drafting view
16. Update a drawing
17. Update a drawing
18. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
19. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions - 1872 11 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create and edit a hole callout
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Create dimensions with appended text
7. Change the settings of existing dimensions
8. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
9. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
10. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
11. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations - 1872 19 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Create and edit balloon symbols
9. Create balloon symbols with leaders
10. GD&T symbols
11. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
12. Create surface finish symbols
13. Add custom symbols to your drawing
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Identify and edit retained annotations
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Edit associativity to model geometry
18. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
19. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views - 1872 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings - 1872 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings - 1872 23 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create tracelines in an exploded view
10. Add tracelines to an exploded view
11. Part Attributes
12. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
13. Using part attributes and object attributes
14. Assign part attributes
15. Create part attributes for a parts list
16. Add columns to a parts list
17. Place and configure a parts list
18. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
19. Sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
21. Add balloons to a drafting view
22. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
23. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing

Documenting with Drafting - 1899 8  Chapters

Learn to create standards-compliant detailed engineering drawings that are fully associated to your 3D model.

1 Learning Experience Overview - Product Design 2 Topics

1. Welcome: Navigation Overview
2. Product Design track Intro

2 Create a drawing - 1899 12 Topics

1. Create a drawing
2. The drawing node on the Part Navigator
3. Work with the Part Navigator
4. How do I build a drawing using the master model format?
5. Create a drawing from a master model part
6. Set your drafting standard
7. Set the drafting standard for your drawing
8. Use different methods to create new drawing sheets
9. Create new drawing sheets
10. Edit and add drawing sheets
11. Create a custom drawing border
12. Knowledge Check: Create a drawing

3 Working with drafting views - 1899 17 Topics

1. Working with drafting views: Part 1
2. Working with drafting views: Part 2
3. How do I add views to a drawing?
4. Add views to a drawing
5. Edit the appearance of model geometry in a drafting view
6. Edit the display of model geometry in a view
7. How do I delete views and drawing sheets?
8. Delete views and drawing sheets
9. How do I create a custom view?
10. Create a custom view
11. Create a custom base view with the Orient View tool
12. Move and align a drafting view
13. Move and align a drafting view
14. Update a drawing
15. Update a drawing
16. Knowledge Check: Working with drafting views
17. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and add views

4 Create and edit dimensions - 1899 11 Topics

1. Create and edit dimensions
2. Create inferred dimensions
3. Create inferred dimensions
4. Create and edit a hole callout
5. Create dimensions with appended text
6. Create dimensions with appended text
7. Change the settings of existing dimensions
8. Create and edit ordinate dimensions
9. Create and edit an ordinate dimension set
10. (Optional) Create ordinate dimensions by rectangle selection
11. Knowledge Check: Create and edit dimensions

5 Create symbols and annotations - 1899 19 Topics

1. Create symbols and annotations
2. Create Centerline symbols
3. Create center marks
4. Create 2D and 3D centerline symbols
5. Create and edit notes and labels
6. Add note and label annotations to your drawing
7. Add symbols to a drawing note and then modify annotation
8. Create and edit balloon symbols
9. Create balloon symbols with leaders
10. GD&T symbols
11. Add tolerance annotations to your drawing
12. Create surface finish symbols
13. Add custom symbols to your drawing
14. Create and place custom symbols
15. Identify and edit retained annotations
16. Identify and edit retained annotations
17. Edit associativity to model geometry
18. Knowledge check: Create symbols and annotations
19. Principle Lab: Add dimensions and symbols to a drawing

6 Create and edit complex views - 1899 15 Topics

1. Create and edit complex views
2. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
3. Create, edit, and delete a stepped section view
4. Create a half section view
5. Create a half section view
6. Revolved section views
7. Create a revolved section view
8. Create a stand-alone section line
9. Create and edit detail views
10. View Break
11. Create view breaks
12. Erase view dependent objects to improve the clarity of a drawing
13. Erase view dependent objects
14. Knowledge check: Create and edit complex views
15. Principle Lab: Create a drawing and then add section cuts and dimensions

7 Add PMI to drawings - 1926 8 Topics

1. Add PMI to drawings
2. Add PMI to a drawing
3. Automatically display PMI in a drawing
4. Manually display PMI in a drawing
5. Manually display PMI in a drawing
6. Apply PMI changes in the Drafting application
7. Apply PMI changes in a drawing to the model
8. Knowledge check: Add PMI to drawings

8 Assembly drawings - 1899 23 Topics

1. Assembly drawings
2. How to section assembly views
3. Create nonsectioned components in a section view
4. Assembly arrangements in a view
5. Depict an assembly arrangement in a view
6. Render sets
7. Create and edit render sets
8. Create exploded views
9. Create tracelines in an exploded view
10. Add tracelines to an exploded view
11. Part Attributes
12. Create a part attribute for the title of a drawing
13. Using part attributes and object attributes
14. Assign part attributes
15. Create part attributes for a parts list
16. Add columns to a parts list
17. Place and configure a parts list
18. How to sort, print, and save parts list data
19. Sort, print, and save parts list data
20. Represent a parts list using balloon symbols in a drafting view
21. Add balloons to a drafting view
22. Knowledge check: Assembly drawings
23. Principle Lab: Assembly drawing