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NX Tutorial Drafting en

The document provides instructions for creating a drawing using Siemens NX 11 software by drafting views of a part file. It describes opening the part file, creating a new drawing file, and adding three views - a top view at a scale of 2:1, a front view, and a left view. It also details removing the enclosing rectangles from the views and adding dimensions to the first view as shown in a reference figure. The overall goal is to produce the angled part drawing by following the provided steps.

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NX Tutorial Drafting en

The document provides instructions for creating a drawing using Siemens NX 11 software by drafting views of a part file. It describes opening the part file, creating a new drawing file, and adding three views - a top view at a scale of 2:1, a front view, and a left view. It also details removing the enclosing rectangles from the views and adding dimensions to the first view as shown in a reference figure. The overall goal is to produce the angled part drawing by following the provided steps.

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Using Siemens NX 11 Software

Drafting

Based on a Catia tutorial written by Loïc Stefanski.

At the end of this manual, you should obtain the following part:

1 – Introduction.

Start NX 11 and open the file


C:\Commun\NX\angle_part.prt.
 Open a new file (FileNew) and select the tab
Drawing in the dialog box.
 Select the option A4 – Size.
 Set the file name to drafting and set its folder.
 Click OK to validate.

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 In the Populate Title Block dialog
box, put your name in the field
Draw By and press enter to validate
the field.
 Finally, click Close.

2 – Creation of a new view.

In order to create a new view, click the button

Base View in the toolbar.


 In the Base View dialog box set the field
Model View to Use to top and the field
Scale to 2:1.
 Then, drag and drop the view as shown
here below and click left to validate.
 You can move the drawing by selecting its
enclosing rectangle and clicking left and
then dragging the mouse.
 Note: do not use the projected view.
Close the window immediately.

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3 – Creation of the other view.

Redo the above operations for the front and


left views.

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4 – Removing enclosing rectangles.

Rectangles enclosing the draft add confusion


most of the time. We will remove them.
 Open the Drafting Preferences dialog
box by selecting
MenuPreferencesDrafting.
 In the dialog box, select in the tree:
ViewWorkflow.
 Under the field Border uncheck the
option Display.
 Click OK to validate.

5 – Dimensioning.

 Click on the button Rapid Dimension

in the toolbar and set the


dimensions as shown on the first figure
of page 1 of this tutorial.

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