Feature Templates – NX Tips and Tricks

As we continue to explore the latest capabilities from the Siemens’ NX™ software December 2022 release, we’re excited to share this Tips & Tricks blog post focusing on Feature Templates. NX has always delivered advanced automation, process simulation, and integrated technology to help improve productivity in managing end-to-end workflows. With this latest release of NX, we’ve added time saving enhancements to the Feature Templates that save time and accelerate the product design process.

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One of the new aspects of the 2212 release of NX is the integration of Parameter Tables. Feature Templates and Product Templates both now include a new widget for selecting a configuration directly from a Parameter Table. An NX part (or template) can also contain more than one Parameter Table—and choosing a configuration will set values for multiple expressions simultaneously. In addition, template authors can choose which configurations are presented in the template UI and optionally allow for all configurations to be deactivated if the need for custom parts arises.

Another new aspect of Feature Templates incorporated into the NX 2212 release is the ability to use WAVE geometry link features. WAVE Geometry Link features are especially useful when creating features that follow or conform to features in adjacent parts. Rather than going in to manually connect features from other parts of an assembly, Feature Templates can now perform WAVE linking operations to copy geometry from another assembly component as an input. This can save a great deal of time on projects centered around linking parts to larger assemblies. Once again, this additional capability added to feature templates opens even more possibility when using NX.

We hope these tips & tricks within Feature Templates will be helpful as you continue explore new functionalities of the 2212 release of NX. Keep checking back for more tips & tricks and be sure to let us know about any topics you’d like us to cover in the future!