Molded & Cast Part Design

Which command would you use to apply taper or slope to faces, bodies, or from edges?

Draft

What feature can be used to create stiffening geometry to support other features?

Rib

The Draft command is typically used to apply what to faces?

Slope

What type of object can you add a rib into?

Solid Body

Which one of these is not a type of creation in the Face Blend command?

Face and Vector

Which one of these command is the most efficient and preferable way to create stiffeners on molded parts?

Rib

The Rib feature can only be created in what situation?

In a pocket area were the rib extends down and to the side walls

To create a blend between three faces at the same time, what command would you use?

Face Blend

What command could be used to create a hollow molded part?

Shell

What is a unique ability of Face Blend over Edge Blend?

Can create a blend between two faces that are not connected

What option in the extrude dialog will project an extrude to the side walls of a pocket?

Open Profile Smart Volume

When creating an offset curve, how do you switch from sharp corners to a radius corner based off the offset value?

Change the Cap Option to Arc Cap

Which of the following describes a G2 Constraint?

Objects are tangent and have the same radius of curvature at contact

Which of the following describes a G0 (zero) constraint?

Objects are contiguous but not tangent

The Variational Sweep command can create which one of the following?

A surface tangent to other surfaces

Which command is used to combine multiple sheet bodies into a new single sheet body?

Sew

Which of the statements is true when creating or moving the defining points of a Studio Spline?

The spline curve dynamically update in real time

What command in NX can you use to create a surface from an open set of connected planar curves?

Bounded Plane

Which one of these is not a type of continuity in the Studio Spline command?

G4 (Smooth)

What command in NX can you use to create a body by sweeping a cross section along a path where the shape of the section varies along the path?

Variational Sweep

What type of Studio Spline lets you create a spline by constructing and manipulating spline poles?

By Poles

What is required to create a Bounded Plane?

A closed set of 2D curves

What option is used to create a studio spline thru specific locations?

Through Points

What option is used to create duplicate profiles in the Variational Sweep command?

Secondary Sections - Add New Set

What option is used to create a spline that is defined by using the average of selected points?

By Poles

What will happen when you edit a spline defined Through Points to a spline defined By Poles?

The defining data will be lost

When performing a Boolean operation such as Unite, which body retains all the object attributes such as material properties, color, and layer?

Target Body

Which one of these statements is false when constructing robust models?

Use the model for a one-off design project

Which one of these is not a type of creation in the Text command?

3D Text

What command in NX can you use to create a container to organize features within a part?

Design Group

What command in NX can you use to create a helical curve with a specific number of turns, pitch, diameter, and turn direction?

Helix

Aside from Along Vector, what is the other type of creation method in the Helix command?

Along Spline

When modeling custom threads, which command do you use to create a body by sweeping a cross section along a path where the shape of the section varies along the path?

Variational Sweep

Which one of these is not a Boolean-type command in NX?

Cut

In the Text command, which one of these cannot be used as a Font Style?

Underlined

In the Text command, what option allows you to automatically creates a text string expression from the generated text?

Reference Text

Which one of these commands does not use Target Body and Tool Body selections?

Combine

What is a good reason to build a robust model?

For a part that will be reused for a long period of time

How can you capture company standards to build new parts?

Create a Template part

What is a common recommended practice when it comes to edge blends?

Create them at the end of the model history

To help avoid constraints to external objects, what selection scope can be used while working in a sketch?

Within active sketch only

What curve feature can be used to easily add lettering to a model?

Text

When performing Boolean operations, what should you always pick?

The same Target Body

What can you do to important features ibn the part navigator to make them easier to find?

Rename the feature

When creating an extrude, what curve rule will ensure that you select all of the sketch curves?

Feature Curves

What tool allows a user to organize features into "folders" in the part navigator?

Feature Groups

What is a key difference between a Design Group and Feature Group?

A design group can be used to control the updating of the model

How can you tell which design group is active?

In the part navigator, the sphere to the left of the group name is green

What is a good curve tool to use to make custom threads?

Helix curve

What should be done with expressions to make them easier to understand?

Rename the expression

Which synchronous modeling command can be used to merge cylindrical and conical split faces such as hole an boss geometry?

Optimize Face

Which tool can be used to analyze a part for model issues such as self-intersecting faces, silver faces, and open sheet boundaries?

Examine Geometry

What commands are useful for modifying imported model data?

Synchronous Modeling Commands

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to remove faces from a machining solid to represent the part as-cast or as it would appear at various stages in a manufacturing process?

Delete Face

Which command is used to create and associative or non-associative body, point, curve, or datum by extracting from existing objects within the same part?

Extract Geometry

Which one of these actions cannot be performed when right-clicking on a feature in the Part Navigator?

Cut

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to offset a set of faces from their current location and adjust adjacent faces to accommodate?

Offset Region

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to transform faces in a linear direction, angular direction, or from point to point?

Move Face

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to modify a body by adding or subtracting faces of a sheet body?

Paste Face

Using the Extract Geometry command, which one of these objects cannot be extracted?

PMI Annotation

Which Synchronous Modeling command creates a new sketch of curves on the intersected faces of a solid body?

Edit Cross Section

What Synchronous Modeling command is used to add or remove material from an area of a model?

Offset Region

Synchronous modeling commands are best suited to be used on what types of parts?

Parts with prismatic bodies with no parametric history

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to transform faces in a linear direction, angular direction, or from point to point?

Move Face

What option in the Move Face command helps select faces of the model?

Face Finder

While using Delete Face, what Face Rule allows you to select many faces easily by using a seed face and boundary faces?

Region Faces

What command can be used to generate an internal volume solid?

Delete Face

If you need to make a duplicate solid body to modify, what command would you use?

Extract Geometry - Body

When using the Edit Cross Section command, what option opens the internal sketch for editing?

Edit Section Curves

What two types of curves can you include/ignore when using the Edit Cross Section command?

Interior Features and Blends