NX DESIGN ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION EXAM

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

What is a unique property of Pattern Geometry?

It does not attempt to perform a Boolean of the results

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

Make Symmetric

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

Must have a constant width

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

Objects are contiguous but not tangent

Which of the following describes a G2 constraint?

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

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

Resize Blend

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

Slope

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

Body-based features

Design intent will determine which one of the following tasks.

The modeling strategy

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

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

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

Toggle on Symmetric Offset

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

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

A Hole feature can be easily edited to change the form

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

A model with drafted sides

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

A surface tangent to other surfaces

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

Along Spine

Synchronous modeling commands work best on what types of faces?

Analytical faces

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

Assembly Navigator

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

Assembly load options

Which options determine if NX loads component parts fully or partially?

Assembly load options

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

Bounded Plane

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

By Poles

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

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

Delete Face

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

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

Edit Cross Section

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

Edit Section Curves

Which default Reference Set is available if no additional reference sets have been defined?

Entire Part

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

Entire Part

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

Expressions that are not used

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

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

Extract Geometry - Body

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

Extract Geometry - Mirror Body

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

Feature Curves

A conditional expression is created using what kind of statement?

If-Else

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

Which of the following can be used to view selected components in a separate window tab?

Isolate in New Window

How can you tell which reference set is displayed?

Look for the reference set name in the Assembly Navigator

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

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

Offset Region

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

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

Parts with prismatic bodies with no parametric history

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

Piece parts

All family members of the Template part are _______.

Read only

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

Replace Feature

How do you create a projected view on your drawing?

Right-click a view border and choose Add Projected View

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

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

Select a face and datum axis or straight edge

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

Select multiple close-looped sections

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

Serious problem - the feature has failed to update

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

Sew

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

Show Degrees of Freedom

In the View Section dialog, which option do you use to display areas of interference within the assembly?

Show Interference

What commands are useful for modifying imported model data?

Synchronous Modeling Commands

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

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

What type of expressions cannot be deleted?

System Expressions

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

Target Body

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

When reviewing the results of a clearance analysis what does a soft interference indicate?

The components are closer than the clearance zone distance

Which of the following is one of the reason you use Visual Reporting?

To color-code the assembly to summarize a specific condition

Why would you use product outlines?

To create geometry that gives the suggestion of the overall size and shape of an assembly

Which of the following explains why when performing a clearance analysis a clearance set is defined with two collections?

To reduce the number of checks the software needs to perform

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

To view solid bodies in the model

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

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

Use the model for a one-off design project

How can you investigate the design intent of a sketch?

Vary a dimension to see how the sketch changes

What tool will highlight components on the screen and add visual tags with specified information?

Visual Reporting

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

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

blue

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

conditional

What does the feature browser do?

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

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

positive direction of wall thickness

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

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

3D Text

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

6

What is required to create a Bounded Plane?

A closed set of 2D curves

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

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

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

Assembly

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

Both history based and non-parametric models

How can you create a note with a leader?

Click and drag while placing the note

What term is used for an expression description?

Comment

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

Create the parts separately and then add them to the assembly

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

Datum Plane

How can you easily edit a feature of a model?

Double click the feature in the part navigator

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

Double-click

What is the primary workflow of synchronous modeling?

Edit non-parametric models

All parts files with geometry have what two reference sets created automatically?

Empty and Entire Part

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

Examine Geometry

What is a good reason to build a robust model?

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

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

General

The Rib feature can only be created in what situation?

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

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

How do you reposition a drawing view?

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

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

Interior Features and Blends

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

Make the part the work part

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

Move Face

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

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

Open Profile Smart Volume

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

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

Optimize Face

The following are common drafting dimension standards, except for:

PMI

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

PMI Annotation

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

Pattern Face

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

Populate Title Block

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

Reference Text

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

Region Faces

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

Section & Guide

Which type of object can you add a rib into?

Solid Body

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

Suppress by Expression

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

The Add Component dialog

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

The Constraint Navigator

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

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

The child features are automatically deleted

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

The defining data will be lost

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

If a reference set is deleted from a component part that is used in multiple assemblies, what reference set will be used in its place the next time one of the assemblies is opened?

The next available reference set defined in the Assembly Load Options

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

Why would you use a separate Thread command?

To create external threads

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

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

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

When a part is opened

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

When are expressions automatically created?

When features are created

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

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

Within active sketch only

Can design intent be incorporated after the initial model construction?

Yes, but may be more difficult

If you load a component using Lightweight Representation in which cases should you switch to Exact Representation?

You want to display an accurate representation of the assembly

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

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

combine

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

draft

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

external threads

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

offset

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

revolve

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

sketch curves

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

slope

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

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

the same dialog box used to create the feature

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

toward the portion of the body that will be removed

What type of chamfer cannot be created?

two angle