3D Designer

Subdivide faces are used to break faces up into smaller divisions. It breaks a rectangular face into how many smaller faces?

5

If a model requires a true circular feature, it should be created with:

A sketch and extrude feature in xDesign

The hole size and shape is based on international standards. What standards can the hole feature use?

ASME Metric or Inch, ISO, DIN

What tasks option helps you to display the sub-project tasks in the Task page?

All Level Tasks

What is NOT a group of selections that can be used to generate a Reference Axis?

An existing plane or face

What is NOT an available Chamfer type that can be created in xDesign?

Angle-angle

Fill in the Blank: Primitives can be inserted onto planes, reference points, and __________.

Axes

Subdivision surfaces can be created as 2D and 3D surface bodies. The many types include

Box, Quadball, Cylinder, Globe, Torus, Cone, Pyramid, Rectangle, Disk, and Ring

When adding a hole feature, how is the hole sized?

By the fastener type, size, and fit

What apps come under the Project Planner role?

Collaborative Tasks. Project Planning.

What is NOT an available constraint type in xDesign?

Congruent

What field lets you add a context to the project, like a product or any another project?

Contributes To.

Fill in the Blank: When you finish editing of a subdivision body by clicking OK on the Subdivision Surface toolbar, the surface is ________ and __________.

Converted to NURBS and knitted into a solid.

The hole types are based on standard drill sizes and fastener shapes. What type are available?

Counterbore, Countersink, Straight

Fill in the blank: The 3DSpace app can be used to __________.

Create new collaborative spaces. View the contents of a collaborative space. Open Physical Products in xDesign.

Fill in the Blank: Features below the Rollback handle appear crossed through the grayed out. The best way to describe them is __________.

Deactivated or Suppressed

The position of the Rollback bar in Design Manager is significant. Features above the bar are active, but what happens to features below the bar?

Deactivated or Suppressed

What is not true about opening designs from the 3DDashboard?

Designs can be opened by browsing for your files on your desktop.

Using Convert to Direct Edit can create what feature types?

Direct-Edit, Chamfer, Fillet

Mirror creates 'opposite hand' versions of components. How is the distance between the source component and the 'opposite hand' version calculated?

Double the source to the mirror plane.

In order for a component to be edited, it must be active. How do you make a component active?

Double-click a component in the Design Manager.

Sketches are created on planes or planar faces. To replace this reference, use:

Edit Sketch Plane

You can move from xShape to xDesign or from xDesign to xShape pressing the x key or Switch app, and then clicking the app. What forces an automatic transition from xDesign to xShape?

Editing a subdivision surface

What requires only one sketch profile to complete the command?

Extrude

The geometry used to create mates includes:

Faces, Edges, Planes.

True or False: Additional instances of a component can be added to a design by holding the "Alt" key and clicking and dragging the component name from the Design Manager into the graphic area.

False

True or False: All 3D features in xDesign must be based on sketch geometry.

False

True or False: An axis only spans the length shown by the endpoints on the screen.

False

True or False: Combine has options to Add, Subtract, or find the Common volume of bodies. The Combine command must use all of the solid bodies.

False

True or False: Faces can only be drafted so that they angle outward and not inward.

False

True or False: Linear Patterns can only pattern one feature at a time.

False

True or False: Only two components can be mated together at once.

False

True or False: Sketch profiles can only be used once to create a single 3D feature.

False

True or False: Super Features can be changed at any point in the Design Manager.

False

True or False: Surface modeling in xDesign must be done in a different environment than solid modeling.

False

True or False: The Super Feature functionality can be used for all commands found in the Feature tab of the action bar.

False

True or False: When importing a SOLIDWORKS model into xDesign, the feature history is automatically added in the Design Manager.

False

True or False: is it possible to modify a Released design.

False

The Make Component option creates a new component from information in the Design manager. What information does it use?

Features

What is a false statement of the Design Manager in xDesign?

Features can only be created in the order you see them listed vertically.

xShape is great for sculpting organic shapes, while xDesign is better for more standard, prismatic shapes. What tools are found in xDesign?

Fillet. Shell. Extrude.

Fill in the Blank: Pattern instances maintain a link to the original or source component. To prevent motion, they can be mated or ________.

Fixed

The first component placed in an assembly is fixed. How can its position and orientation be changed?

Float component then drag/rotate it.

When a component in the assembly is active, there are visual clues. What can be clues?

Float component then drag/rotate it.

What are the benefits of Project Planner?

Helps you optimize projects in order to meet key milestones. Enables You to collaborate with other senior managers. Enables you to collaborate with team members to accelerate innovation.

What functions can a Project Planner perform?

Invite people to collaborate on a specific project. Create activities and define a plan in a simple way. Provide real-time project execution capability.

What are common sketch tools in xDesign?

Line, Rectangle, and Circle.

What type of command could use a reference axis to create the feature?

Linear pattern. Revolve. Circular pattern.

Fill in the Blank: A restraint feature is required before using Design Guidance. The other required feature is a __________.

Load

What features CANNOT be switched interchangeably as a Super Feature?

Loft

Fill in the Blank: The option Sketch to Components works in a sketch, and converts existing sketch objects to ______ and _________.

Mates and Components

What feature CANNOT pattern more than two total instances of the original geometry?

Mirror

What type of command use use a reference plane to create the feature?

Mirror

Several tools, including Extrude and Subdivide Faces, exist on both the Action bar and the Context toolbar. The Context toolbar is best for creating one and done. What is the Action Bar best for?

Multiple face selections. Adjustments to the settings. Using the tool multiple times.

The Add, Cut, and New options are available for Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, and Loft features. Which option is used to create a separate solid body?

New

Fill in the Blank: There are two major Design Guidance options. The options are _________ and _____________.

New Design and Redesign

What is NOT a command on the Lifecycle tab of a xApp:

New Revision Form.

What is NOT an available dimension type in xDesign?

Parallel

Fill in the Blank: Symmetry allows you to make changes on one side of the symmetry edge to change both sides. That edge represents the intersection of the surface and a ________.

Plane

Pictures are image files of the type .jpg, .jpeg, .png. They are placed in the model using what geometry?

Plane

Symmetry allows you to edit both sides of a symmetrical object by working on either side. To use it, click Symmetry and select:

Plane

The Extrude tool is a multi-purpose tool that can be used to:

Push a face outwards. Connect faces through the model for a hole. Connect faces for a handle.

The Robot is a set of coordinate axes that appears whenever subdivision geometry is selected. It can be used to:

Push or Pull the selected geometry.

The Robot is a set of coordinate axes used to manipulate geometry by:

Pushing or Pulling. Rotating. Scaling.

The Arc Bend tool bends geometry in a plane along what type of entity?

Radius of an arc

What is NOT an essential step in creating a Design Guidance study?

Recognizing fillets and chamfers.

What creates solid geometry by moving the sketch profile along a circular path?

Revolve

What features in xDesign are NOT used to replicate geometry?

Revolve

Fill in the Blank: The Move Face command allows faces to be translated or rotated, using the ________.

Robot

Fill in the blank: All apps including the xDesign app, are accessed through the Compass, or the _________ button.

Roles, Apps & Solutions portfolio.

What file types can be imported in xDesign?

SOLIDWORKS part (.sldprt), STEP file (.step), IGES file (.iges)

The Scale By Distance tool is used to scale the model to a specific size. What is the Scale Non-uniform used for?

Scaling in a single direction

Fill in the Blank: Scale by Distance scales a subdivision surface uniformly. The By Bounding Box option does this by showing a bounding box, with dimensions, surrounding the model, and letting you ______________.

See the dimension values

How can we test the motion in a sketch with connected sketch objects?

Select any part of the sketch object and drag it.

Snapping can be toggled on or off in a sketch. If it is toggled off, how do we connect the endpoints of two lines?

Select two endpoints and click Coincident.

A specific feature type must precede the hole in the Design Manager. What type is it?

Sketch with points or endpoints to locate the hole.

What creates solid geometry by moving a sketch profile along a custom sketch path?

Sweep

What is NOT an applied feature that's created purely based on existing 3D geometry in your design?

Sweep

The Section View tool cuts through a model using a plane. What describes the state of the section view?

Temporary

3D primitive subdivision surfaces are fully closed surface bodies. What primitive shapes are NOT available in xShape?

Tetrahedron

The Measure tool measures distances, angles, and areas using pieces of geometry like vertices, edges, and faces. What units does the output use?

The current units

The Rollback can be moved up and down along the Design Manager tree. What is a reason to place the bar at a specific location?

To place new features

True or False: In the Design Manager, you can reorder features using drag and drop.

True

True or False: Lifecycle is a common action bar tab for xApps.

True

True or False: Some sketch constraints can be added automatically as you're creating the sketch entities.

True

If we represent the equation as X = Y, how is the equation driven?

Y, the value on the right drives X, the value on the left.

What is true of the xDesign platform?

xDesign is capable of modeling both individual components and creating assemblies. xDesign utilizes multibody modeling. xDesign saves your designs in the cloud.

Fill in the Blank: Bread Crumbs appear on the screen when you select model geometry. They can be used to ________ features.

Edit, Delete, Hide or Show

When a design is first saved to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the Maturity State is set to:

In Work

What can you use to prevent changes in the geometry of a sketch object?

Rigid

What are the lifecycle states of a Task?

To Do, In Work, Completed.

True or False: Fillets can be applied to fully remove a face and replace it with a full round fillet.

True

True or False: Linear Patterns can be created in two directions that aren't perpendicular to one another.

True

There are four mate sets in the 'Mate dialog'. What mate types are part of the Standard mates set?

+ - * /

Crease sharpens a corner at an edge, but also allows adjustment of the sharpness. The sharpness is set using:

A sliding scale from 0 to 100

All holes created in the same feature have the same size and shape. How many holes can be created by one hole feature?

Any number

What is NOT a group of selections that can be used to generate a Reference Plane?

Any two axes

Fill in the Blank: Ordered Geometrical Sets, or OGS, are set of features that can be used to separate solids, and _______.

Apply Color, Deactivate or Activate, Hide or Show.

What is NOT a Maturity State:

Approved.

What method can be used to edit an existing Linear or Circular Component Pattern feature?

Double-click the pattern feature.

The sequence of the features in the Design Manager tree affects the model results. What best describes the process reordering a feature?

Drag and drop a feature in the tree to a new position.

To jump from xDesign back to xShape, you can press the x key, click the Switch App icon, or:

Edit a subdivision surface.

Circular Component Patterns can be defined about a single Axis for Direction. this axial direction can be defined by selecting what type of geometry?

Linear edge or sketch line, Axis, Cylindrical face.

Linear Component Patterns can be defined in 1 or 2 directions. These vector directions can be defined by selecting what type of geometry?

Linear edge or sketch line, Plane (normal), Axis

When the External References option is toggled on, what happens to references created using Convert Entities?

References are created and maintained

True or False: All equation-driven dimensions are marked with a prefix. That prefix is f(x).

True

True or False: An existing Revolve feature can be changed to an Extrude feature by utilizing the Super Feature functionality.

True

True or False: Assemblies can be created directly in xDesign and have mates applied to allow for motion depending on their degrees of freedom.

True

True or False: At any point in the design history, an Extrude feature can be switched from adding geometry to cutting away geometry.

True

True or False: Dimensioning an arc generates a radical dimension, but dimensioning a circle generates a diameter dimension.

True

True or False: Dragging an existing design into an open design allows you to either open or insert it.

True

True or False: More than one sketch profile in a sketch can be used to create a 3D feature.

True

True or False: Recognized fillet and chamfer features can be edited by double-clicking.

True

True or False: Rollback in the Design Manager allows you to add a new feature in the middle of the feature history.

True

True or False: Specific instances of a Circular Pattern can be skipped.

True

True or False: Subassemblies are assemblies used as components.

True

True or False: Surrounding geometry can be excluded from the build volume by using Exclude Regions.

True

True or False: The Move Body command can either move a body in space, or move a duplicate of the original body in space.

True

True or False: The Shell option One Way can be used to apply the thickness either inside or outside.

True

True or False: The first component added into a design will automatically be Fixed.

True

True or False: When creating a new Collaborative Space, you can control which users have visibility to files saved in that space.

True

True or False: When using Combine with the Subtract option, the Tool bodies are subtracted from the Target bodies.

True

True or False: You can use the Search in Current tab option in the global search bar to search the items in the Tasks as well as Content tab.

True

True or False: xDesign's Design Guidance automatically generates geometry based on loading conditions on a model.

True

What is not true in terms of the Project Planning app?

You can filter the tasks based on Team Members in the Tasks tab of the app.