Tutorials

Install and start NX-Style (Installation), and try Your first part in five minutes first.

Parts are metric. The books work in inches; their sizes are typed in millimetres (2.5 in = 63.5 mm).

Where a book gives a size only in a figure, the tutorial page says so and gives the size used here.

Randy H. Shih, Parametric Modeling with Siemens NX (SDC Publications): tutorials A, C–G, I–N and W (ch. 13, sheet metal).

Gene R. Cogorno, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Mechanical Design, 3rd ed. (McGraw-Hill): tutorial H.

James Leake and Jacob Borgerson, Engineering Design Graphics (Wiley): tutorial K.

Tutorial B is a synthesised first-part exercise.

Bryan R. Fischer, Mechanical Tolerance Stackup and Analysis, 2nd ed. (Taylor & Francis): tutorial S, and the stack-up method.

Andreas Wünsch, Fabian Pilz and Sándor Vajna, Siemens NX für Einsteiger – kurz und bündig, 4th ed., section 6.10: the PMI workflow of tutorial T and the model views of tutorial Y.

Sham Tickoo, Siemens NX 12.0 for Designers, ch. 12: the default model views, tutorial Y.

Paul J. Drake, Dimensioning and Tolerancing Handbook (McGraw-Hill), ch. 6 (ASME and ISO compared), ch. 9 (statistical tolerancing) and ch. 24 (pinned interfaces, tutorial X); Gene R. Cogorno (above), ch. 3, 7, 8 and 13: the checks, the fastener formulas and the gauge sizes.

Fischer (above), ch. 15: the lever of an angle error, tutorial X.

Cogorno (above), ch. 12 and 13: composite position and its graphic analysis, tutorial AA. Drake (above), ch. 20 and 25: measurement systems and the gauge study example, tutorial AB; ch. 4: the title and revision blocks, tutorial AC.

The PLM books of John Stark, Michael Grieves, and Antti Saaksvuori and Anselmi Immonen: release and engineering change, tutorial V.

Tutorial U’s layout is ours; Assembly Clearance follows NX’s.

Tutorial AE is ours: the acceptance case of the Extrude command (None for a new body, Unite, Subtract, edit, cancel, undo, reopen).

Tutorial AL is ours: the plate and its parameters; the exchange follows ISO 10303-55 annex E and ISO 10303-108 Cor.1 annex F.

Tutorial AM is ours: the fixture and the bracket profile; the commands follow ISO 10303-112 clause 4.2.2 (selection by ISO 10303-55).

Tutorial BC is ours: tutorial V’s guide bush handed to manufacturing; the records are Carbon’s (Carbon’s documentation).

Ming C. Leu, Wenjin Tao, Amir Ghazanfari and Krishna Kolan, NX 12 for Engineering Design (Missouri University of Science and Technology), sections 3.5 and 3.6: tutorials AF, AG, AH, AJ and AK; sections 4.2.1, 4.3 and 4.5.1: tutorial AN; section 4.2.2: tutorial AP; section 4.4: tutorial AO; sections 4.7.1 and 4.7.2: tutorials AQ and AR; sections 4.7.3, 4.7.4 and 4.7.5: tutorials AS, AT and AU; exercise 4.10.1: tutorial AV; exercise 4.10.2: tutorial AW; exercise 4.10.3: tutorial AX; exercise 4.10.4: tutorial AY; sections 5.2 to 5.4: tutorial AZ; section 5.5: tutorial BA; section 5.6: tutorial BB (exercise 5.7 is not replayed).

ISO values (ISO 286 limits, ISO 2768 general tolerances) were checked against two published tables each; the unit tests also compare them with the ISO 286-1 formulas.

Bastian Wibranek, Rhino 3D and Grasshopper - Basics Tutorial: tutorial O.

Rhino Grasshopper (YouTube channel), Grasshopper Tutorial For beginners: tutorial P.

Rhino Grasshopper, Rhino Grasshopper Tutorial (Beginner), the planter: tutorial Q.

Rhino Grasshopper, Rhino Grasshopper Tutorial (Beginner), the 54-minute masterclass: tutorial R.