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Unigraphics NX Syllabus

The document provides an overview of the key capabilities and functions of the Unigraphics NX software including: 1) The graphical user interface and navigation tools for viewing models. 2) Tools for creating sketches and using them for features in part modeling like extrude, revolve, sweep, blend, holes. 3) Feature modeling commands for primitives, datum features, and operations. 4) Assembly modeling capabilities for placing components, constraints, and arrays. 5) Drafting tools for creating views, adding dimensions and annotations. 6) Manufacturing functions for defining operations, tools, toolpaths, and generating programs.

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Unigraphics NX Syllabus

The document provides an overview of the key capabilities and functions of the Unigraphics NX software including: 1) The graphical user interface and navigation tools for viewing models. 2) Tools for creating sketches and using them for features in part modeling like extrude, revolve, sweep, blend, holes. 3) Feature modeling commands for primitives, datum features, and operations. 4) Assembly modeling capabilities for placing components, constraints, and arrays. 5) Drafting tools for creating views, adding dimensions and annotations. 6) Manufacturing functions for defining operations, tools, toolpaths, and generating programs.

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UNIGRAPHICS NX

INTRODUCTION TO UNIGRAPHICS
NX GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE – Title bar, Menu bar, toolbar, Radial toolbar, selection bar, cue and
status line, Resource bar, Navigators, Full screen, view orientation- isometric, trimetric, view commands,
Rotate, Pan, Zoom in/out, Quick pick, World coordinate system, Multiple graphics window.
Changing units in NX
File management – Creating new files and about templates, opening files, Saving files

SKETCHER
• Creating Sketches – Profile, line, Arc, Circle, fillet, chamfer, rectangle, polygon, spline, ellipse,
conic
• Editing Sketches – Quick trim, quick extend, make corner, offset curve, offset move curve,
pattern curve, mirror curve, intersection point, derived lines.
• Constraints – Geometric constraints, auto constraints, inferred constraints, dimensional
constraints, auto dimension.
PART MODELING
• Basic Terminologies – Feature, body, face, section curves, guide curves
• Feature modelling concepts
• About datum csys and datum planes
• Feature modelling commands
• Creating extrude features
➢ Extrusion by selecting a section of edges
➢ Limiting option
➢ Boolean operation
➢ Applying draft
➢ Offset sketches

FEATURE MODELLING COMMANDS


• Creating Revolve features
➢ Revolve sketch about an axis
➢ Limits option
➢ Offset sketch
• Creating Primitives – Block, cylinder, cone, sphere
• Creating Datum Features – Datum plane, Datum axis, Datum CSYS, Datum Point
• Creating Sweep features
➢ Sweep a section along a guide
➢ Adding thickness
➢ Sweep one or more sections along guide curves

• Blend Features
➢ Creating edge blend
➢ Constant radius
➢ Variable radius
Creating face blend
Types of blend
• Applying Chamfer
• Holes – General hole, Drill size holes, Screw clearance holes, Threaded holes
• Draft, shell, Thread, Scale
• Draft – From plane, from edges, Tangent to faces, to parting edges, Draw direction, Variable draft
points

FEATURE OPERATIONS
• Instance feature – Rectangular array, circular array, Pattern face
• Mirror feature, mirror body
• Instance geometry creation – From bodies, From faces, From faces, From edges, From curves,
From points.
To divide face, Trim body, Split body, Boolean commands.

ASSEMBLY MODELING
• Introduction to assembly modeling
• Types of approach
➢ Bottom-up approach
➢ Top-down approach
• Placing components
• Assembly constraints

Angle, Bond, centre, concentric, Distance, fit, parallel, perpendicular, Touch align

• Creating component arrays

Linear array, circular array, Feature instance array

Moving a component, replacing component, repositioning component, mirroring assembly,


creating new component, creating new parent, finding assembly, clearance, creating exploded views,
finding degrees of freedom

DRAFTING
• Introduction to drafting
• Inserting new sheets, editing sheets
• Setting up standards, knowing graphical user interface of drafting
• Creating drafting views
➢ Base view
➢ Drawing view
➢ Projected view
➢ Orthographic view
➢ Auxiliary view
➢ Detail view
➢ Section view

Simple section, stepped section, half section, revolved section, folded section, unfolded section,
broken out section

Move and copy a view

Align a view

Hide/ show components

• Adding dimensions

Inferred dimension, horizontal dimension, vertical dimension, parallel


dimension, perpendicular dimension, angular dimension, cylindrical dimension, hole dimension,
diameter dimension, radius dimension, ordinate dimension

➢ Adding annotations
➢ Adding feature control symbol
➢ Adding datum feature symbol
➢ Adding datum target
➢ Inserting surface finish symbol
➢ Placing table
➢ Listing part list
➢ Creating auto balloon

MANUFACTURING
• Introduction and overview
• Part analysis for manufacturing
• User interface
• Creation of blank
• Operation navigator
• Machine coordinate system
• Geometry definition
• Creating operation
➢ Creating a new operation
➢ Tool creation and selection
➢ Toolpath setting
➢ Step over
➢ Scallop height
➢ Depth per cut
➢ Cutting parameters
➢ Avoidance
➢ Feeds and speeds
• Program generation and verification
➢ Generating program
➢ Toolpath display
➢ Toolpath simulation
➢ Gouge check
➢ Post processing
• Operation methods
➢ Face milling
➢ planar profile
➢ clean corner
➢ wall finishing
➢ floor finishing
➢ groove milling
➢ hole milling
➢ thread milling
➢ rest milling
➢ Semi finishing
➢ finishing
➢ Planar milling
➢ Cavity milling
➢ Contour machining
➢ Contour surface area
➢ Contour steep and non-steep areas
➢ Drilling
➢ Text engraving

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