NX Core Designer Tutorials

Tutorial Part files Notes

NX User Piston_ASM_complete.prt Please watch the video to familiarize yourself
Interface with the NX UI. NX will launch automatically
shortly after the session starts. See note (1)
below the table about the location of NXParts.
Go to File → Open → NXParts →T1_NX User
Interface → Piston_ASM_complete.prt
Sketch Start: Piston_Head.prt Launch NX if it is not already running.
Creation and Go to File → Open → NXParts →T2_Sketch
Modification End: Piston_Head_complete.prt Creation and Modification→ Piston_Head.prt.
Follow the steps in the video. After completing
all the steps in the video, the resulting sketch
would look like the sketch in
Piston_Head_complete.prt.
Capturing Start: Piston_Head.prt Launch NX if it is not already running. Go to File
Design Intent → Open → NXParts → T3_ Capturing Design
End: Piston_Head_complete.prt Intent → Piston_Head.prt. After completing all
the steps in the video Sketcher 2, the resulting
sketch would look like the sketches in
Piston_Head_complete.prt.
NX Part Start: Piston_Head.prt Launch NX if it is not already running. Go to File
Navigator and → Open → NXParts → T4_ NX Part Navigator
Editing End: Piston_Head_complete.prt and Editing Features → Piston_Head.prt. After
Features completing all the steps in the video Modeling
1, the resulting model would look like the
model in Piston_Head_complete.prt.
Assembly Start: User starts by creating a Launch NX if it is not already running. Follow
new assembly. the steps in the video to create a new
assembly. The parts for the assembly are at this
End: Piston_ASM_complete.prt location: Go to File → Open → NXParts → T5_
Assembly. After completing all the steps in the
video, the resulting model would look like the
model in Piston_Head_complete.prt.
Visual Start: Piston_ASM_complete.prt Launch NX if it is not already running. Go to File
Reporting → Open → NXParts → T6_Visual Reporting
Synchronous Start: Synchronous.prt Launch NX if it is not already running. Go to File
→ Open → NXParts → T7_Synchronous →
End: Synchronous 1_complete.prt Synchronous.prt. After completing all the steps
in the video, the resulting model would look
like the model in Synchronous 1_complete.prt.

1) The full path to NXParts is: C:\Users\Public\Documents\NXParts

2) NX can be launched by double-clicking the icon on the desktop
3) Users do not need to save the models at the end of each tutorial. The start and end part files for each tutorial
are in the respective folders in NXParts.