21 Video Lessons
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Level: Advanced

Hidden Functions, Shortcuts & Everyday Productivity Boosts

Siemens NX Tips and Tricks
Work Faster & Smarter in NX

Discover time-saving techniques and hidden features that make Siemens NX more efficient. Learn how to customize menus, save settings, use anchors, expressions, and optimization tools. These short, focused tutorials help you improve your daily workflow and get more done with fewer clicks. Ideal for anyone looking to master Siemens NX like a pro through clever practical tricks.

What you will learn

Find the assembly in windows

Change colour via expression

Create inner volume

Show center of gravity

Customer defaults

Administration your team

Step import-export

Multi-start trapezoid thread

Change language, and much more

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Siemens NX Tips and Tricks Tutorial

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Find the assembly in windows
Since all files in NX have the same file extension, it seems impossible at first to distinguish between assemblies and

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Component Anchors
With coordinate systems defined as anchors, you can significantly speed up the installation of components. Coordinate systems can be converted

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Change colour via expression
Products with identification colours have the same geometry, but different colours. There are many possible solutions for this, but the

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Create inner volume
Do you have complex parts and need the inner volume? It's easy with the right selection. Start the Delete command,

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Target value optimisation
Normally, the variables change the result in a calculable way. But if the constraints are very complex, the desired result

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Show center of gravity
The center of gravity (center of mass) for a model or assembly can be created associatively using the Measure command.

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Restore the rotation curve
And the best of all: this works with a parametric model as well as with a non-parametric model (step). And

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Replace sketch curves
The Replacement Assistant allows you to replace the sketch and transfer all ID-numbers from the old curves to the new

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Siemens NX: Keyboard shortcuts
Create and save new shortcuts. Make a list of all the existing shortcuts in NX. Also included is a list

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Save settings in menus with Favorites
Favorites can be used to save settings in the menus. The saved settings can be called up later in the

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Blend Pocket
The Blend Pocket command helps to quickly create radii that are suitable for production in a milling pocket. The command

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Siemens NX Tipps & Tricks: Find overwritten dimensions
Manual dimensions on drawings can result in very high costs, but it is quite easy, to check a drawing for
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