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Shaping the Future of NX Together

Beta testing, much like the community, brings together NX users from all over the world. It’s a fun opportunity for people from all different backgrounds, industries, and design disciplines to meet i…

NX EAP Event : A Newcomer’s Experience

Almost everyone I talk to who works at Siemens, particularly those of us on the NX team, cites talking to customers as their favorite part of the job. After my first day at NX Beta testing in Cypress…

Geolus Shape Search: “I need a part that looks like this…”

Independent studies show that over 80% of a designer’s time in a CAD system is spent editing and creating geometry. The ability to maximize data re-use is of the utmost importance in efforts to desig…

Testing NX: a California Adventure

I always look forward to my trip to the Cypress, California office to test the latest functionality in NX. This marks my fourth attendance to the Early Access event—from NX 9 through the upcoming NX …

Technical Data Packages: Choosing a Path JT or 3D PDF

Say you want to drive somewhere and have a choice between two roads: One is well-paved and takes you halfway to your destination, but you may have to pay a lot of tolls along the way, while the other…

NX 11 Learning Edition Now Available!

Great news for CAD students… NX 11 Learning Edition is now available and features the same breakthrough convergent modeling technology as the full version of NX. With NX 11 Learning Edition, you can …

Adventures in 3D Printing

To go forward, you must first look back…
Figure 1- The metal awl from Tel Tsaf upon discovery. – Credit: PLOS ONE, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096882 In 2014, archaeologists working a site in I…

NX 11 Advanced Sheet Metal for Automotive and Aerospace Parts

Creating fast, accurate flat patterns is the goal of any organization that manufactures products which contain sheet metal parts. NX Sheet Metal provides a set of tools within the NX design environme…

The Virtual and the Reality: A Brief History of 3D CAD Quality

It was a sharply cold Illinois winter’s morning in 1989. I still remember it quite vividly. We turned into the parking lot at the Technical Center facility; an Englishman in the Midwest carpooling wi…