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Product Design Fundamentals

Category: Siemens NX Design Course

Course Type: Scheduled

Duration: 1 Day

Location: Kaizen PLM Office, Client Site, Remote (Online)

User Level: Beginner to Intermediate

 

Course Content:

Establish design intent

  • Establish Design intent

 Analyse the design and make changes

  • Edit features and resolve failures

  • Alter a sketch to complete model edits

  • Resolve parent references for a sketch

  • Map parent objects for replaced feature

 Create parts with constant wall thickness

  • Extrude with offsets

  • Trim a solid to a surface

  • Create a shell

Sweep geometry

 Build parts with duplicated geometry

 Create symmetric models

product design fundamentals
loading and working with assemblies

Loading and Working with Assemblies (1 day)

Manage Assemblies

  • Modify an unparameterized model using a sketch

  • Check interferences and define attributes

  • Load assembly components using context controls

  • Review an assembly using Visual Reporting

 

Configure an assembly

  • Work with assembly joint constraints

 

Create reusable components

  • Reuse a sketch as a feature

  • Find and add reusable objects to a model

  • Using a parameter table to control a design

  • Create your own reuse KRX file

 

View component interaction using sequencing

  • Create a new sequence

  • Extract a sequence path

surface modelling

NX CAD Surface Modelling Processes (3 days)

Basis CAD surface modelling:

  • Introduction to surface modelling processes

  • Use 3D curves as construction geometry   

  • Build robust models

  • Create and analyse high quality curves

  • Use mesh surfaces to define primary features

  • Style shapes to build sculpted surfaces

  • Sweep sections to start a design

  • Build parts using exact geometry

  • Overbuild surfaces to create a part

  • Define transitional geometry

  • Analyse the quality of freeform geometry

  • Use surfaces to add definition to a solid

  • Deform surfaces for manufacturing

  • Rapid Prototyping/Reverse Engineering

documenting with drafting

Documenting with Drafting (2 days)

Create a basic part drawing documenting with drafting

  • Create a new drawing

  • working with drafting views

  • Create and edit dimensions

  • Create symbols and annotations

  • Create and edit complex views

  • Add PMI to drawings

  • Assembly drawings

NX CAD Basics

Category: Siemens NX Design Course

Course Type: Scheduled

Duration: 2 Days

Location: Kaizen PLM Office, Client Site, Remote (Online)

User Level: Beginner to Intermediate

 

This course is designed to give new users an overview of the NX modeling, assemblies, and drafting task-based processes. At the completion of the course, the student will be able to develop basic solid and assembly models, as well as drawings using the master model concept.

 

Course Content:

  • NX user interface

  • Create a basic part

  • Organize and display part models

  • Create cylindrical parts using sketches

  • Add Finishing Details

  • Simple changes and part interrogation

  • Basic part edits using synchronous

  • Analyze existing assemblies

  • Bottom-up assembly building

  • Create a basic part drawing 
     

Who is it for?

Manufacturing engineers, NC/CNC programmers, CAE engineers, detailers, and managers who need to manage and use NX.

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NX CAD Advanced

Category: Siemens NX Course

Course Type: Scheduled

Duration: 1-2 Days

Location: Kaizen PLM Office, Client Site, Remote (Online)

User Level: Advanced

 

NX Advanced Training takes your skills to the next level. This comprehensive course enhances productivity and equips you with advanced techniques for proficient NX design.

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You'll master complex product model design, precision detailing, and accurate drawing creation. The course covers assembly modelling, including advanced techniques like constraints and interferences. Additionally, you'll learn the master model concept for efficient project management and collaboration.

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By completing the NX Advanced Training, you'll confidently tackle advanced design challenges. You'll excel in creating intricate models, detailed drawings, and complex assemblies.​

 

Who is it for?

Engineers, designers, detailers, checkers, and managers who need to manage and use NX.

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NX & Mechatronics Concept Designer

Category: Siemens NX Course

Course Type: Scheduled

Duration: 3 Days

Location: Kaizen PLM Office, Client Site, Remote (Online)

User Level: Intermediate – Advanced

 

Learn to utilise the various features and modules in NX & Mechatronics Concept Designer, further empowering efficiency and innovation. To reduce risks and effort during the real commissioning, the virtual commissioning of a machine offers an efficient alternative. With the help of NX MCD, SIMIT and PLCSIM Advanced you can virtually commission your machine.

 

Course Content:

 

NX CAD Essentials:

• NX User Interface

• Create a basic part

• Organise and display part models

• Create cylindrical parts using sketches

• Add finishing details

• Simple changes and part interrogation

• Basic part edits using Synchronous technology

• Analyse existing assemblies

• Bottom-up assembly basics

 

NX MCD Modelling and Basic VC (SiL):

• Introduction & Virtual commissioning: Tool overview.

• GUI

• Physics engine and rigid bodies

• Collision bodies

• Transport surfaces

• Sensors

• Material flow

• CAD import

• Modelling of pneumatic cylinder in MCD

• Adding cylinder to pushing plate assembly

• Modelling of pushing plate

• TIA Portal: Create project

• NX MCD: Signal Adapter

• PLCSIM Adv: Create instance

• NX MCD: External connection

• SiL: Virtual Commissioning

• DIY: Modelling and VC of the blocking plate (optional)

 

Advanced virtual commissioning (SIL) & Cam validation with MCD:

• SIMIT

• First steps

• Drive behaviour modelling

• PLCSIM Advanced coupling

• MCD coupling

• Mapping

• TIA Portal: Adding hardware and telegrams

• SiL: Virtual commissioning with drive

• MCD: Create Joints and Controls

• MCD: Create a sequence

• MCD: Record cam

• MCD: Configurate cam profile

• TIA Portal: Configurate cam profile in TIA

• MCD: Connect PLC Cam to the MCD model

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NX CAD skills for CAM Users

Category: Siemens NX CAM Course

Course Type: Scheduled

Duration: 2 Days

Location: Kaizen PLM Office, Client Site, Remote (Online)

User Level: Advanced

 

Who’s it for?

This training course is for engineers who receive solid models or 2D drafting drawings and need to create stage models or design fixturing to hold parts during manufacture. Using ‘wave’ technology to create stage models associative to the original part, allowing changes to seamlessly flow to the stage model & on to the NX CAM program. Also showing how modifications identified during NX CAM programming can be easily updated.

 

Course Content:

NX CAD for CAM uses 'wave' technology for manufacturing. From Creating simple drawing to Synchronous modelling, after this 2 day course, you'll understand how to create stage models to allow seamless changes on to NX CAM.

  • Creating parts with sketches

  • Synchronous modelling

  • Creating and editing holes

  • Working with assemblies

  • Using wave linked geometry

  • Creating associativity

  • Creating simple drawing

  • CAD tools with CAM environment

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Other Courses

We also offer courses in other areas of NX. Please reach out to learn more or discuss bespoke training options.

  • NX Sketch

  • NX Line Designer Basics

  • Routing Electrical

  • Routing Mechanical

  • Model Based Definition using PMI

  • Designing Parts in NX (Advanced)

  • Assembly Line Planner

  • Ship Structural Design

  • Sheet Metal Design

  • Diagramming

  • NX CAM Manufacturing Advanced

  • Design for Additive Manufacturing

  • NX Planar for Additive Manufacturing

  • NX CAM Post Building Techniques

  • Intermediate NX Design

nx basics
designing parts
MCD
CAD for CAM
other

Self-Paced Online NX Training

We also provide access to the Xcelerator Academy by Siemens where you get on demand access to a range of video lectures and demonstrations along with cloud-based environments that are pre-loaded with required software, licenses, and practice files.

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Interested in Xcelarator?I

Siemens Xcelerator Software for Industry is a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of software, services and an application development platform  designed to help companies of all sizes become digital enterprises . Learn more HERE.

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