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