NX Basic Design

What is an emissive material?

A material that emits light

How can you tell which reference set is displayed?

Look for the reference set name in the Assembly Navigator

Which one of these does not allow you to determine if a part contains inter-part expressions?

Look in the Assembly Navigator

What tool is used to examine and edit any rules applied to the active part?

MBD Navigator

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

Resize Blend

The Roles Tab is located on the _____?

Resource Bar

Which of these settings in the Studio Material Editor dialogue will let you edit the base color of your material?

Diffuse

PMI annotations only appear in the view in which they were created. (T or F)

False

PMI section views have other display capabilities, such as displaying a cap to geometry that is cut by a section view. (T or F)

True

Stacking organizes annotations neatly and treats them as a group. If one annotation is hidden, all the associated stacked annotation will also be hidden. (T or F)

True

Which extrude limit requires you to select a face?

Until Extended

Which options can be used if you want to temporarily make the datum planes invisible from the graphics display?

Use Layer Settings

What does VBOM stand for?

Visual Bill of Materials

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

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

A Hole feature can be easily edited to change the form

What is required to create a Bounded Plane?

A closed set of 2D curves

What happens when you open a part with inter-part expressions and the source part for the inter-part expression is not loaded?

A message is displayed telling you that the inter-part expressions cannot be evaluated

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

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

A surface tangent to other surfaces

Synchronous modeling commands work best on what types of faces?

Analytical faces

From which one of these can you not reference parameters when creating inter-part expressions?

Any parts that are not loaded in the session

Export Control markings store instructions inside a part file, so:

Anyone who opens the part file can see the information

In the NX user interface, the availability and layout of commands are organized by what to support the different major workflows?

Applications

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

Assembly

What command do you use when you want to add a hole or cutout through multiples components?

Assembly Cut

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

What is a function of PMI section views?

Associate section view planes with geometry

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

Blue

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

Both history based and non-parametric models

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

Bounded Plane

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

By Poles

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

By Poles

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

If you don't see the commands you want to use what is one way to display them?

Change your role

How is the Create Clone Assembly command different from Save As?

Create Clone Assembly copies all the parts in the assembly

Which on of the following statement is false regarding inter-part expression links and geometry links?

Creation of circular links is acceptable

What area of the NX user interface will prompt the user on what to do?

Cue Line

When reused parts are not symmetric, at what step in the Mirror Assemblies Wizard can you specify a user-defined symmetry plane?

During the Select Plane step

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

Entire Part

When sketching in context of the assembly, what should the Selection Scope list be set to so that you can reference geometry from one part to another?

Entire assembly

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

External threads

You can create a Technical Data Package template from a blank file or from an existing template, but you cannot edit objects in the template. (T or F)

False

You can edit a conversion report, but you cannot delete it from the part. (T or F)

False

What does HDRI stand for?

High Dynamic Range Image

When you use the Associated Objects option to associate all features in a pattern to the PMI, whenever the dimension is queried or selected, its associated objects are: (Select all that apply)

Highlighted in the graphics window and listed in the query results

Which of these is not an option when setting render quality?

Hyper-real

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

You want to display some PMI in a Trimetric model view. How do you do that?

In the MBD Navigator, under the PMI node, right-click the PMI and choose Display in Views

How can you tell if a part contains inter-part expressions?

Look in the Expressions section under Tools

After you mirror an assembly using the Mirror Assembly command, how can you tell which parts contain an associate geometry link?

Look in the Part Navigator

To run queries and control the display of results, you would use the following:

MBD Query Navigator

Which of these is NOT a camera setting?

Materials palette

Changes to the PMI section view must be made in what application?

Modeling

You added a PMI section view to a drafting view. In which application can you edit the view?

Modeling

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

Move Face

What is the purpose for using the Promote Body command?

Move a body from a loaded assembly component to the level of the assembly

Which of the following describes a G2 constraint?

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

Which of the following are located on the Resource bar?

Part Navigator

When you load an assembly or replace a component, if the NX encounters a component part that has the same name as the component when the assembly was last saved, but detects that it is an unrelated part, what error message does NX displays?

Part is not a valid version of component part

Which one of these is not a status shown in the Out of Date column of the Part Navigator to indicate the condition of the inter-part geometry and inter-part link?

Pending update

Which of the render modes gives you the highest quality final image?

Photoreal

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

Piece parts

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

Populate Title Block

Which render mode is best for evaluating lighting?

Ray Traced Studio

All family members of the Template part are _______.

Read only

How do you create a projected view on your drawing?

Right-click a view border and choose Add Projected View

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 Create New Component command, which one of these options can you not set to the defining objects?

Set the Object Color

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

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

Sketch curves

To extrude a sketch curve until a point where the curve crosses another curve or edge, which of the following options would you use?

Stop at Intersection

What is the best way to remove unwanted geometry from your scene for visualization?

Suppress parts

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

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

The Constraint Navigator

As you create PMI in your model, you notice the PMI display size does not change when you zoom in and out. What PMI setting controls this behavior?

The Enable Resize and Settings Relative to View Zoom Factor PMI preferences

On the ribbon bar in NX, where would you find the System Scenes?

The Render tab

When using design in context, what state has the part in which new features are created?

The Work Part

What is the Work Layer?

The layer where objects are placed when created

When you add a datum target symbol to a PMI region, what determines the dimension displayed in the symbol?

The region's size

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

The spline curve dynamically updates in real time

What is the purpose as to why you would use inter-part links?

To make sure mating parts share the correct interface, especially during the design phase, when things are most likely to change

WAVE is useful because it gives you the ability:

To model components

Which of these is NOT a valid method of applying a material?

To multiple separate models

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

To view solid bodies in the model

What is the modeling concept where you model multiple bodies in the assembly part file and later push these solids into their own component part files?

Top-down modeling

You can WAVE link a PMI dimension from one part to another for the following types of geometry: (Select all that apply)

Topology and Body

A Technical Data Package is a collection of one or more files or documents that contains all the information necessary to define a product and its requirements. (T or F)

True

Refit Face can be used to improve unsightly existing geometry. (T or F)

True

You can associate all the holes in a hole pattern to one PMI hole dimension. (T or F)

True

You can create view-dependent PMI objects, that only appear in the model view in which they were created, or view-independent PMI objects that appear in all the model views. (T or F)

True

What does the Denoiser function do?

Turn down the volume on your computer

What type of chamfer cannot be created?

Two Angle

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

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

How can you temporarily remove all the Sketches and Datums from the graphics window display if all the geometry is on the same layer?

Use the Show and Hide 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

How can you investigate the design intent of a sketch?

Vary a dimension to see how the sketch changes

When you publish a Technical Data Package: (Select all that apply)

You can protect the output PDF by prompting for a password and you can enter a note or description when employing custom text fields.

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

6

In an assembly design context, which one of these cannot be the work part?

A loaded part that does not belong to the assembly

In top-down assembly modeling, which of the following can you do to geometry at the assembly level?

Add them when creating new component

When using PMI Compare, a green plus sign appears next to PMI objects that were:

Added in the source part or latest revision

Using the Where Use Report command, which one of these is not a setting in the Search Option?

As Saved Folders

How can you create a note with a leader?

Click and drag while placing the note

What is one way invoking the radial toolbar?

Click and hold the right mouse button either in the background or on top of an object

You find a command with the Command Finder that is not currently displayed on the Ribbon bar. How can you start the command?

Click the command in Command Finder

What part of the NX user interface is used to locate and activate a specific command that is associated with one or more words or phrases?

Command Finder

When creating link geometry using the WAVE Geometry Linker command, which one of these object type cannot be linked?

Component

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

What command do you use when you want to postpone updating linked objects such as linked geometry and linked expressions?

Delay Link Update

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

Double-click

Using the Clone Assembly command, what option do you use if you want a test run of the cloning operation, instead of actual cloning execution?

Dry Run

What is the primary workflow of synchronous modeling?

Edit non-parametric models

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

G4 (Smooth)

How do you reposition a drawing view?

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

What is used to control whether objects are visible and selectable?

Layer Settings

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

Make the part the work part

What command do you use when you want to create a mirrored version of the entire assembly or selected components?

Mirror Assembly

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

PMI Advisor has three modes of operation, including the following:

Off

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

The following are common drafting dimension standards, except for:

PMI

To maintain both the parallel-to-screen position and the size of a PMI object, you must select: (Select all that apply)

Parallel to Screen and Lock Size & Position

Datum targets can be: (Select all that apply)

Points, Lines, and Areas

When the cursor is over more than one object what tool can be used to cycle through the possible candidate objects?

QuickPick

Which command removes a component from an assembly and adds another existing component in its place?

Replace Component

You can use Refit Face to modify geometry when that geometry is:

Reverse-engineered data to be used for detail work, Data-translated from other CAD software, and Aesthetically unacceptable

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

Revolve

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

Secondary Sections - Add New Set

When creating an Offset - Datum CSYS what type of Reference CSYS must be used to establish associativity to an existing Datum Coordinate System?

Selected CSYS

If you are unable to select geometry from other parts in your assembly, where should you look for selection options?

Selection Scope in Top Border bar

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

The Add Component dialog

You must create WAVE-linked PMI to reference PMI in other applications. When the source PMI is changed:

The PMI instance in the target part is also updated

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 you create a new component, as an alternative to the Absolute Coordinate System, you can specify the component's origin using:

The Work Coordinate System (WCS)

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

What do the Roles control?

The buttons displayed in the ribbon groups

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

What happens if the annotation plane of a PMI dimension and the annotation plane of the object selected for dimensioning are not parallel?

The dimension value is measured on the annotation plane and secondary extension lines are created

Why do we often use .PNG files for decals?

They support transparent backgrounds

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

Through Points

Why would you use a separate Thread command?

To create external threads

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

Translated data imported from another Cad system, Non-parametric geometry, and Parametric NX geometry with model history

If you specify an annotation plane, and then select points to dimension that are on a nonparallel plane, the dimension value may be unexpected. (T or F)

True

What type of operation is used to create a single solid body out of two or more existing solid bodies?

Unite

Which of the following are Boolean operations?

Unite, Subtract, Intersect

To delete a conversion report along with all the data in the part that is converted from the drawing:

Use the Delete Data Converted from a Drawing option in the Displayed Part Properties dialog box

When you open a part created by someone else, how can you tell if it contains inter-part expressions?

Use the Expressions command

When creating an inter-part expression, in addition to system-created expression, what is the other type of expression that is automatically created?

User-created expression

What can you do in Studio Task mode?

Visualization tasks such as adding materials, lights, and cameras

When might you want to avoid using inter-part expression links and geometry links?

When your company prefers to avoid links in released parts due to the inadvertent change they might cause

Which assembly report can be used to find all unloaded parts or assemblies in which a given part is a component?

Where used

If a balloon in an annotation stack is hidden, the coordinate note in the stack:

Will also be hidden

On which layer are all new objects created?

Work layer

Direct Modeling uses these methods:

X-Form, Match Edge, and Sew

Which of these is not a good reason to set up cameras as part of your visualization workflow?

You can only create a render from a camera view

You add a model view to your drawing, but the PMI sketch dimension is not visible. Which of the following can cause this to happen? (Select all that apply)

You did not set the Show PMI on Drawing Drafting preference, you are displaying the wrong reference set in your drawing part, or you did not set the Inherited Drafting view preferences correctly.