Covers all current versions in 38 exercises

NX Expressions for Smarties is the one stop course on the expressions language in NX that has been written for engineers by engineers who love this stuff. We did it knowing that you’re probably very busy. That said, we’ve made this course very hands-on and streamlined. Most of this course is made up of exercises. You will learn a ton by performing them. The exercises get successively more difficult as the chapters progress, so we expect that if you already know a bit about expressions you can skip the beginning chapters and start somewhere in the middle.

Due to the raw power of expressions in NX this course is quite extensive. Most folks who use NX know at least a little about expressions but when you get into the detail you come to realize that the subject is vast. The expressions capability in NX is arguably the best, most powerful and easiest to use capability of its kind when compared to all the other major CAD programs. Most of the other CAD programs with a similar ability require you to order the expressions, “relations” just right, and you cannot make expressions on the fly. Also on other programs the available functions are limited and cumbersome. This course is an attempt to capture it all and provide real world examples from industry.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

About Basic to Advanced NX8 Book

Basic to Advanced NX8 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies is the newly revised version of our previous CAD training textbooks. We have greatly expanded the content, detail, and exercises included in this edition.Topics include: Synchronous and Master Modeling; Fundamental and Intermediate Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; True Studio Task; and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings. Using NX8 is like playing a piano. In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others. Our book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that we have used to bring about excellent designs.This manual teaches you the modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality including all the latest and greatest tools found only in NX8.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Basic to Advanced NX7.5 Student Edition is the newly revised version of our previous CAD
training textbooks. We have greatly expanded the content, detail, and exercises included in this edition.Topics include: Synchronous and Master Modeling; Fundamental and Intermediate Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.Using NX7.5 is like playing a piano. In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others. Our book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that we have used to bring about excellent designs.This manual teaches you the modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality including all the latest and greatest tools found only in NX7.5.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Anuranjini Pragada, Industrial Design Lead at DV, has over 10 years' experience in the design field. She has been a major contributor to a vast array of products from automotive to medical to consumer electronics. She is an experienced user of Unigraphics NX as well as other CAD software, including Pro/E and SolidWorks. She specializes in creative uses of computer aided design and modeling.

Benjamin Stevenson, is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Eric Weeks, Senior Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Unigraphics and Pro/ENGINEER. He has trained engineers in UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Basic to Advanced NX7.5 Student Edition is the newly revised version of our previous CAD

training textbooks. We have greatly expanded the content, detail, and exercises included in this edition.Topics include: Synchronous and Master Modeling; Fundamental and Intermediate Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.Using NX7.5 is like playing a piano. In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others. Our book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that we have used to bring about excellent designs.This manual teaches you the modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality including all the latest and greatest tools found only in NX7.5.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Anuranjini Pragada, Industrial Design Lead at DV, has over 10 years' experience in the design field. She has been a major contributor to a vast array of products from automotive to medical to consumer electronics. She is an experienced user of Unigraphics NX as well as other CAD software, including Pro/E and SolidWorks. She specializes in creative uses of computer aided design and modeling.

Benjamin Stevenson, is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Eric Weeks, Senior Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Unigraphics and Pro/ENGINEER. He has trained engineers in UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Basic to Advanced NX7.5 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies is the newly revised version of our previous CAD training textbooks. We have greatly expanded the content, detail, and exercises included in this edition.Topics include: Synchronous and Master Modeling; Fundamental and Intermediate Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.Using NX7.5 is like playing a piano. In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others. Our book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that we have used to bring about excellent designs.This manual teaches you the modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality including all the latest and greatest tools found only in NX7.5.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Anuranjini Pragada, Industrial Design Lead at DV, has over 10 years' experience in the design field. She has been a major contributor to a vast array of products from automotive to medical to consumer electronics. She is an experienced user of Unigraphics NX as well as other CAD software, including Pro/E and SolidWorks. She specializes in creative uses of computer aided design and modeling.

Benjamin Stevenson, is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Eric Weeks, Senior Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Unigraphics and Pro/ENGINEER. He has trained engineers in UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Modeling, Assemblies and Drafting from Machined Parts to Blobjects

About the SolidWorks 2011 Book

Beginning to Advanced SolidWorks 2011 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies from Machined parts to Blobjects has been written by engineers for engineers. Based on many years of teaching folks all over the globe how to make more effective use of their CAD tools, we have placed the overwhelming emphasis in this book on excercises. This book teaches users how to be fluent with the tool.

In the same way a good saxophone player must learn by playing a variety of songs in various genres, the exercises in this SolidWorks book expose learners to various combinations of commands that form powerful techniques.

Our aim in writing this book is to use every trick we have learned throughout the years to help our readers learn as much as they can in the shortest amount of time.

Beginning to Advanced SolidWorks 2011

by: Stephen M. Samuel, Katherine E. Robbins and Narsai Paul

Basic to Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies is the newly revised version of our previous CAD training textbooks. We have greatly expanded the content, detail, and exercises included in this edition.

Topics include: Synchronous and Master Modeling; Fundamental and Intermediate Curves; Editing Entities; Design, Reference, Surface and Detail Features; Sheet Metal Features; and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.

Using NX6 is like playing a piano. In the same way that chords are as important as individual notes, NX commands are far more powerful when used in concert with others. Our book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that we have used to bring about excellent designs.

This manual teaches you the basic modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality of NX6.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel PE, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Anuranjini Pragada, Industrial Design Lead at DV, has over 10 years' experience in the design field. She has been a major contributor to a vast array of products from automotive to medical to consumer electronics. She is an experienced user of Unigraphics NX as well as other CAD software, including Pro/E and SolidWorks. She specializes in creative uses of computer aided design and modeling.

Benjamin Stevenson, is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Eric Weeks, Senior Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Unigraphics and Pro/ENGINEER. He has trained engineers in UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Basic and Intermediate Solid Edge ST2 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies has been written by engineers for engineers. Based on many years of teaching folks all over the globe how to make more effective use of their CAD tools, we have placed the overwhelming emphasis in this book on exercises. This book teaches users how to be fluent with the tool. In the same way a good saxophone player must learn by playing a variety of songs in various genres, the exercises in this Solid Edge book expose learners to various combinations of commands that form powerful techniques. Our aim in writing this book is to use every trick we have learned throughout the years to help our readers learn as much as they can in the shortest amount of time.

Exercise Guide

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel PE, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Benjamin Stevenson, is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Katherine Robbins, is a product design engineer at Design Visionaries. She holds a US patent for a solder removal device, and has a BSE from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. She has designed products using 3D modeling software that includes Unigraphics / NX, Solid Edge and SolidWorks.

Teamcenter Engineering and Product Lifecycle Management Basics offers clear and careful steps to assist engineers in learning the use of Teamcenter Engineering.

Through this learning manual, one will gain a deep understanding of PLM basics and how PLM is used. This book contains numerous practical examples accumulated throughout our years of training and everyday use. The reader will be guided through all of the concepts, techniques, and commands that are necessary to gain a working knowledge of Teamcenter Engineering. Included is the background information needed to fully understand the underlying concepts.

Topics include: What is PLM and how does it work? How does Teamcenter Engineering fit with other systems? Using Teamcenter Engineering. Basic, intermediate and advanced skills. Implementation of Teamcenter. How to make Teamcenter Engineering work best.

Our Teamcenter book is geared toward a broad audience, including engineers who will actually create data and those who only need to review data, such as management, manufacturing, and marketing teams. Additionally, decision makers who may never touch the data, but need to gain an understanding of PLM, will also benefit.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Stephen Samuel PE, Founder and President of DV, has over 22 years of experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he implemented advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design and manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Siemens, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Eric Weeks, Senior DV Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Siemens and Pro/ENGINEER, and has trained countless engineers in Siemens NX and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Mark Kelley has 22 years' of mechanical design and analysis experience at DV, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, and Westinghouse Electric. He has trained and mentored engineers in Siemens, COSMOS, and Pro/ENGINEER for the last 10 years. He has written advanced training courses for Siemens, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/SURFACE, and Pro/SHEETMETAL, and is a PTC Certified Engineering Provider.