The June 2024 release of NX has been enhanced with even more new and exciting features to help boost your productivity. In this post, we’ll be diving in and exploring new benefits and functionality within Core Design—focusing on the Sketch Create dialog, Sketch Navigator, and expanded Synchronous Modeling capabilities.
Sketch Create Dialog
Next up, let’s touch on some big changes and helpful improvements that we’ve made to the Sketch Navigator. The following new functionalities and frameworks will undoubtedly help to streamline your workflows with the June 2024 release of NX.
Back by popular demand, we’re reintroducing some past capabilities for the Sketch Creation dialog. You once again have the ability to simply select and create a datum plane as needed for your sketch.
We’ve also brought back the ability to select a Vertical Orientation within this feature as well. While the Horizontal Orientation has been back for some time, you now have more options and the ability to customize views. Additionally, you can specify the origin point of the sketch. This is controlled through a customer default under Sketch // General // Session Settings.
There are two options: Automatic and Manual. If you select automatic, you’ll have the default capability of using a single click to pick a plane and then NX will automatically take care of the rest. If you select manual, you will have more advanced capabilities and where you can create new planes as needed and then specify your horizontal or vertical reference and sketch origin.
Choose between both horizontal and vertical orientation
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It’s also worth mentioning that this means that the Create Sketch dialog is now identical to the Reattach Sketch dialog. Previously, the capability we mentioned above was only offered in the Reattach Dialog, but now this feature has been standardized across both.
Sketch Navigator
Next up, let’s touch on some big changes and helpful improvements that we’ve made to the Sketch Navigator. The following new functionalities and frameworks will undoubtedly help to streamline your workflows with the June 2024 release of NX.
Column titles across the top of Sketch Navigator
Added column functionality within Sketch Navigator
If we look at the image above of the Sketch Navigator, you’ll notice that the first column is Title. This column will show you your object type and name.
The second column is Status. This indicates if everything is up to date and whether or not it’s fully defined, fixed, partially defined, or relaxed. As you can see in the image, there are a few filled-in circles. In this instance, the status would be fully defined, while an open circle represents partially defined.
The next column to the right is Source, telling us where the item came from. Essentially, the origin of the object, such as an included curve or a found and persistent relation.
The final column is Value. This lists all of the values for dimensions or expressions. If you quickly double-click a value, the Edit Parameters mode will open for you to specify dimensions. A slow double-click will let you edit within the Sketch Navigator directly, allowing you to change expressions and dimensions.
New functions within Sketch Navigator
In addition to the added benefits of the Sketch Navigator tabs, there are some few new functionalities to highlight here as well.
Many users have requested the ability to see all of the found relations within a sketch—and the new navigator makes this possible. You can now right click on the sketch name and select edit parameters. By doing this, all of the found relations in the sketch will be identified and displayed.
You can also now show and hide parents. For example, if you have entities that are projected or included in the sketch and you want to see where they are coming from, that option is now available.
Expanded Synchronous Modeling capabilities
Another workflow enhancement we’ve made with the June 2024 release of NX is in the Synchronous Modeling area. We always like to have a synchronous enhancement with every release—and so we’re excited to share with you our latest update.
Previously, we introduced clone finding capabilities into our synchronous modeling commands. In this release, we’ve taken this enhancement a step further. We’ve now added support for chamfer clone finding as well, specifically to the delete face command.
You can now find multiple chamfers in a single selection and easily identify exact matches, such as same size and same angle chamfers, loose matches, or all. This feature will also work without any chamfer labeling being required. This is an especially useful enhancement for CAE workflows as the need to mass delete a set of holes or blends can be commonplace. Now, this functionality extends to chamfers as well.
(Source: Siemens)
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