How to put 3D measurements to drafting list

Designed in Siemens NX 7.5

One nice technique that can be used to put dimensions of parts of some assembly inside tables in drafting. In my case i had to make cut list of few thousands steel beams used in assembly. It would not be some huge problem if beams in assembly had 90° cut on both sides but... as you can see on picture below it have two surface cuts on both ends and these cuts are on some distance from actual extrude used to make base length of beam. So we can not use extrude parameters as length of beam.

Parametric plane wing using wave linking, tutorial

Designed in Siemens NX6

This is tutorial for one of many ways to use WAVE linking in NX6. Idea was to make plane wing that can be changed with simple change of values in Tools>Expressions. I tried to make this from one part, but it is too complicated to be really useful, so I made it with assembly and wave linking to keep it simple and functional.

Daft Punk helmet design tutorial

Designed in Siemens NX6

I was asked to make tutorial of design of DAFT PUNK helmet. Now i finished it and here it is, so you can make this helmet too. Model is free for download from this page.


This tutorial do not cover electronics and assembly details, just how to model plastic parts of helmet.

Surface: N-sided & Through Curves commands

CAD software Siemens NX tutorial

This is one easy tutorial for tools that have very advanced usage. It is Mesh N-sided surface and Through Curves command. in this tutorial I will make one really simple part with this two tools, but they almost have no limits for creative usage.

Drafting: A4 page portret set up

CAD software  Siemens NX tutorial

As many of you noticed, A4 page in drafting appear as landscape (when you go to drafting>new sheet>standard size>A4) and you have to go to custom size to edit it to make it portrait. there is solution for that, and it is easy one too.