SIEMENS NX 12 Surface Design

Book excerpt: This textbook explains how to create freeform surface and modify them to create freeform face of a solid body using Siemens NX 12. NX is a three dimensional CAD/CAM/CAE software developed by Siemens PLM Software Inc., Germany. Users of NX 9, 10 and 11 can use this book with minor modifications. We provide files for exercises via our web- site. Most of all files are in NX 6.0 so readers can open the files using NX 6.0 and later releases. It is assumed that readers of this textbook understand basic modeling process with NX. He/She has to be able to create sketch and fully constrain it, create the extruded and re- volved features, apply boolean operation between solid bodies and understand how to use part navigator and selection toolbar. This textbook is suitable for anyone interested in creating mechanical surface and applying for solid body using Siemens NX. Topics covered in this textbook - Chapter 1: Basic components of Siemens NX 12, options and mouse operations. - Chapter 2: Introduction to surface modeling process of NX 12. - Chapter 3 and 4: Creating Ruled and Through Curves surface. - Chapter 5: Face analysis. - Chapter 6, 7, 8 and 9: Creating Through Curve Mesh, Swept, Studio Surface and Varia- tional Sweep surface. - Chapter 10: Commands for creating curves. - Chapter 11: Other helpful commands for creating surface model. - Chapter 12: Modeling projects. - Chapter 13: Modeling bumper surface of Audi Q5.