NEW TO NX 4 FROM SOLIDWORKS, PLEASE HELP!!!! 2

[CADWHORE]

I have just started a new job where I will be using NX4 to do all of my solid modeling. I have roughly 5000 hours experience with Solidworks and am very comfortable with that CAD software. I have been doing a few small projects in NX4 and am getting very frustrated at the interface and how unfriendly all of the commands are. Does anyone have any tips or pointers on what I can do to make NX4 a little bit more like what I am used to? Has anyone made the switch from SW to NX4 happily? What are the advantages to the NX4 software? Thanks for your information

 

[ewh]

As I understand it, Layers will be going away in future releases, to be replaced by "folders". That said, I find layers very useful, though I don't see a pressing need for the standardization of them, as long as they are catagorized properly. Reference sets are only good in the context of assemblies; layers are more useful in the individual detail parts.

 

[J-C]

How do "folders" work?

You can "blank" stuff much like hiding in Solidworks which works ok in the part mode...but I seem to have trouble when creating drawings when I need to show a sketch in a view or don't want to see everything. Or an assy when I need to use planes for mating. Solidworks is as simple as expanding the part or drawing view in the tree, find the sketch or plane in question, right click and show.

As for layer standards, I just want to get everyone to put solids on a certain range of layers and origin planes on another. Its frustrating when there are solid on many different layers, like some on "1" or "10" or "237". Makes assembly work not fun.

Jason

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