Designing with free-form surfaces in Siemens NX
Target group: For designers, technicians, engineers
Duration: 5 days
This training course is aimed at anyone who works beyond classic rule geometries and is involved in the creation of complex free-form surfaces. It covers basic commands, methods, and procedures for free-form design, with both parametric and non-parametric models possible. The focus is on working with curves (especially splines), surface generation, and editing existing surface bodies. In addition, tools for analyzing and optimizing curves and surfaces are taught, including technical terminology and recommended working methods.
The aim of the training is to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to confidently create complex free-form surfaces in Siemens NX, analyze them in a targeted manner, and optimize them constructively.
Course Content
- General curve generation
- Curve processing
- Quality assessment of curves
- Analysis of splines
- Curve generation based on surrounding geometry
- Creating bridging curves
- Analysis of free-form surfaces and free-form models as well as models suitable for machining
- Dynamic correction of transitions and edges
- Handling and generation of control curves (law curves – curves with a known mathematical function)
- Fundamentals of area generation
- Methods for aligning and creating surfaces
- Creating areas using different methods
- Demonstration of the individual variation options in the individual surface functions
- Creating bridging surfaces
- Trimming and extending areas
- Merge areas
- Associative free-form construction
- Analyzing geometries