Howdy. Managed to get an edu version of nx thanks to the wife. Are there any good tutorials or books for it. I do a lot of solidworks and the community is great but there does not seem to be as much about nx. I would like to take this thing 9n a test-drive to see if it's worth it to buy it. Thank you.
I think Rob Lockwood said it best a while ago; handing someone a seat of NX without any guidance is like putting some raondo in the seat of an F22 Raptor.
The CAD side is easy enough to pick up if you are already familiar with 3D parametric jazz. The learning resources for NX CAD are readily available (lots of books, lots of YouTube videos). The most readily available quick overview of NX is on Lynda.com from Steven Marjeh, you can use the free trial and burn through his tutorials in an evening. Most of the VAR YouTube channels I'll list below have more nitty-gritty CAD side examples and tutorials.
The CAM side is another story. NX is a crazy configurable piece of CAM software, and everyone has their own kinda way of doing things. Some folks are all about the simultaneous 5 axis capabilities, others are deep in the Feature Based Machining, others use NX because it can be configured to program just about any kind of machine motion. It is very overkill for basic 3 axis work. That makes teaching it sort of difficult, as the user base and their needs are highly distributed.
Your best bet is to burn through this Turkish gentlemen's YouTube videos:
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He goes through basic setup of a part, and literally every operation in a step-by-step fashion.
Often watching more advanced level videos will clue you into how to do more basic stuff. For that NC Matic is worth going over. The topics might be above your head till you get the NX lingo and workflow, but they are generally pretty great:
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NX VARs also put out some pretty great video content. None of them are workflow overviews that give you the big picture, but you can stitch together what you see to get an idea of how to make NX work for you.
Acuity:
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AppliedCAx:
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ProLim:
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