NX DESIGN ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION EXAM

Which command could you use to control the display or a specific feature based on the value of an expression?

Suppress by Expression

What type of feature is used to define a new Sketch on a non-planar face?

Datum Plane

How can you investigate the design intent of a sketch?

Vary a dimension to see how the sketch changes

What command allows you to create a feature by rotating a section string around an axis through a specified angle?

revolve

To create a datum plane at an angle to a face, what would you select?

Select a face and datum axis or straight edge

Which of the following best describes an advantage of creating an edge blend feature instead of creating fillet curves inside a sketch?

Can be edited, suppressed, or deleted without affecting the sketch

Which one of these are not a type of hole you can create?

external threads

Which of the following cannot be selected to create Edge Blend features?

sketch curves

What type of chamfer cannot be created?

two angle

What is an advantage of using a Hole feature instead of an Extrude?

A Hole feature can be easily edited to change the form

You create a threaded hole in a lug for a specific size fastener. The resulting Hole feature includes:

A single feature The hole, threads, and the entry and exit chamfers

Why would you use a separate Thread command?

To create external threads

You can create a chamfer feature or chamfer curves inside a sketch. What is a potential advantage of creating chamfers in a sketch?

Your model history will have fewer features

Why would you want to deactivate the Timestamp Order option in the Part Navigator?

To view solid bodies in the model

When selecting a feature in the Part Navigator, what do the colors of the text above and below the selected Feature mean?

The Parent- and Child relationships

When selecting a feature in the Part Navigator what color does the text of its children features then become?

blue

In the Part Navigator how can you list the parameters, expressions, and values of a feature without using the Show Dimensions command?

Open the Details Group

After using the Show Dimensions command on a sketch how do you erase the temporarily-displayed dimensions from the graphics window?

Use the Refresh command

By default, what happens to the child features when their parent feature is deleted?

The child features are automatically deleted

Which Synchronous Modeling command can be used to change the radii of this feature regardless of the feature history?

Resize Blend

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

Move Face

What type of models can synchronous modeling commands be used on?

Both history based and non-parametric models

Synchronous modeling commands work best on what types of faces?

Analytical faces

What is the primary workflow of synchronous modeling?

Edit non-parametric models

Synchronous modeling workflows can be utilized to modify models that consist of:

Synchronous modeling workflows can be utilized to modify models that consist of:

Which of the following statements is true when using Resize Chamfer, on selected faces?

Must have a constant width

What operation can be done on any node in the Assembly Navigator to quickly make it the Work Part?

Double-click

Design in context of an assembly means that the assembly is the displayed part and the component you are editing is what?

the work part

How can you tell which reference set is displayed?

Look for the reference set name in the Assembly Navigator

You can model multiple bodies in the assembly part file and later push these solids into their own component part files by using the _______ command.

New Component

This determines how NX loads the component parts into an assembly, such as loading components fully or partially.

Assembly load options

Which default Reference Sets are available if no additional reference sets have been defined?

Entire Part

To edit within the context of an assembly, you must:

Make the part the work part

How do you create an assembly using the Bottom-Up method?

Create the parts separately and then add them to the assembly

Which of the following best describes how you add a part from a part family template?

Use a search criteria and select the desired part file from a list

In bottom-up assembly modeling what do you create and then later add to an assembly?

Piece parts

Which command displays the number of rotational and transitional degrees that a component can move in an assembly?

Show Degrees of Freedom

In an assembly where do you find the name of the reference set that is being displayed for a component?

Assembly Navigator

In the Assembly Navigator, how can you tell which node is the "Work Part"?

The "Work Part" node is represented by bold font text and a yellow component symbol

All family members of the Template part are _______.

Read only

Which of the following does not give you information about the constraints in your assembly?

The Add Component dialog

In Bottom-up modeling, you create component parts at the _________ level.

Assembly

By default, all components you add to the assembly have how many degrees of freedom?

6

Where can you look to get information about an assembly's constraints?

The Constraint Navigator

How can you create a note with a leader?

Click and drag while placing the note

What drafting command allows the creation of a text annotation that would be placed in title block?

Populate Title Block

When you have a master model, where do you ideally create a drawing of the model geometry?

In a separate part, with the model geometry added as a component of the drafting part

The following are common drafting dimension standards, except for:

PMI

How do you reposition a drawing view?

In the drawing area, click and drag the view border to the desired location

How do you create a projected view on your drawing?

Right-click a view border and choose Add Projected View

What term is used for an expression description?

Comment

You have two user defined expressions: Width=12 and Length=Width*2, what happens if you select Width in the Expressions dialog box and click the Delete key?

Width cannot be deleted

A conditional expression is created using what kind of statement?

If-Else

When are expressions automatically created?

When features are created

What type of expressions can be deleted using the Expression dialog box?

Expressions that are not used

if(Length==5)(150)else if(Length==4)(195)else(25) is an example of what type of expression.

conditional

Which of the following statements about the Lock Formula option in the Expressions dialog box are true?

Is particularly useful for protecting important expressions from being modified

Design intent will determine which one of the following tasks.

The modeling strategy

Can design intent be incorporated after the initial model construction?

Yes, but may be more difficult

Which one of these following operations does not automatically create expressions?

When a part is opened

What type of expressions cannot be deleted?

System Expressions

Which one of the following statements about the Lock Formula option in the Expressions dialog box is false?

Expressions with locked formulas when created cannot be unlocked

The modeling strategy, the organization of the model, and the creation of expressions, are tasks you typically do to establish what modeling concept?

Design Intent

Which one of the following statements about Design Intent is false?

Design intent cannot be added to a model after the initial construction

What command lets you substitute bodies and datums as well as reapply dependent features?

Replace Feature

Which of the following conditions must be in place before you can reattach a sketch to new geometry?

The geometry must have a timestamp before the sketch

When you use Edit Parameters or Edit with Rollback, you generally access ...

the same dialog box used to create the feature

How can you easily edit a feature of a model?

Double click the feature in the part navigator

Which one of the following feature types can you browse in the Browser?

Body-based features

What does the feature browser do?

in a separate window, explores parent-child relations between features and their ancestor and descendant objects

When using Edit with Rollback ..

the Feature being edited is made the current feature, all later features are suppressed, once the edit is complete the model is rebuilt to the end

To display other solutions for a Linear dimension you may use ..

the Alternate Solution command or Enter a negative value for the dimension type

What does a warning symbol on a feature in the part navigator mean?

Serious problem - the feature has failed to update

If you use the Shell command on a solid body and do not select at least one face to pierce which of the following will the result be?

A hollow solid body

When using the Trim Body command, the vector that is displayed points..

toward the portion of the body that will be removed

When you use the Shell command, the wall thickness vector points in the _______

positive direction of wall thickness

When creating Offset Curves, for the Distance, Draft and Law Control type of offset curves, the curves to offset..

must lie in the same plane

Draftcommand is typically used to apply ______ to faces for use in molded or die cast parts.

slope

While creating a shell, you need to remove a face that is adjacent to a blend face. What setting needs to be set to help prevent failures?

add shelf face at tangent edge

How do you create offset curves in both directions at the same time?

Toggle on Symmetric Offset

A characteristic of a model that is required for a molded or cast model typically includes

A model with drafted sides

When designing a molded part that needs to be released from two halves of a mold, what should be designed into the part?

a parting line

What option will create a body with wall thickness from an extrude feature?

offset

Which of one the following statements is false when using the Shell command?

When creating multiple alternate thicknesses, each are created as separate shell feature

Which one of the following statements is generally true for molded part designs?

Molded parts are designed with thin walls to promote thermal cooling in the mold

When using the Sweep Along Guide command, which one of these can you not do?

Select multiple close-looped sections

When using the Sweep Along Guide command what two sets of curves must be defined?

Section & Guide

The Pattern Feature and Pattern Face commands produce similar results in most cases. If the faces you select don't bind a region that can be added or subtracted to the solid body, which command should you use?

Pattern Geometry

What pattern would you use to create a pattern on an imported step file?

Pattern Face

What pattern method allows you to pick from and to points?

General

What is a unique property of Pattern Geometry?

It does not attempt to perform a Boolean of the results

The Mirror Feature command creates a new feature. When you edit this feature which of the following can you do?

Select a different symmetry plane

What command will allow you to quickly create the other half of a symmetric part model?

Extract Geometry - Mirror Body

You want to add a symmetry constraint between pairs of curves already created in your sketch. Which command would you use?

Make Symmetric

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

draft

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

Slope

Which type of object can you add a rib into?

Solid Body

The Rib feature can only be created in what situation?

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

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