does NX have anything to automate a design, perhaps similar to creo options modeler?
i know it has equations...m but are you able to turn a feature on or off like that (without a macro)? pro/program has something like that.
I'd suggest taking a look at NX Product Template Studio, which has a rich set of drag-and-drop (no code to write) tools for creating simple UI to drive options in NX models.
(Change model parameters in coordinated ways, suppress/unsuppress features, suppress/unsuppress components, add/remove/replace assembly components, assembly arrangements, part families, FEA, Motion, Drawings and PMI, and more.)
There are some great videos on YouTube, actually, showing some of the possibilities:
In case you haven't figured this out already: I've got a short video showing how you can suppress features by using suppression by expression. It is in Norwegian, but the process should be understandeable anyway.