At our site we require a lot of flexibility and have to deal with a lot of unparametric, customer supplied data but that isn't a problem for us. I know a molder who develops parts for oem's in NX in house, designs molds around those parts and finally programs steel and edm electrodes from the design models and everything is parametric from start to finish. The point is it's powerful so you have many ways of dealing with data. Users may work on the multitudes of parts in an assembly simultaneously or simply standalone with customer supplied data. This NX docs have many how-to sections and there are some basic tutorials built into the app too.Īs for a complete, integrated package it IS super nice to work in. On the training side you can get Siemens training and there is reasonably priced training using Siemens Learning Advantage which is subscription and online based I believe and there also are many articles and videos on the Siemens site as well as user forums. Playing with it on your own is okay but it's surprising how fast a month trial can whiz by if you just play around with it occasionally.

If you do not have to model anything you could jump into cam but if you need to do modeling you will definitely need to learn the cad side first. My thinking is that working with NX may be cleaner?Firstly I am a NX user.Ĭad or cam first? Depends what you will be doing. I find I have to convert models to bodies so I can work with them.

I am getting by well with CamWorks but it would be nice to work with the original model without converting.

Is it important to understand the CAD side before the CAM? Maybe I should learn the CAD before reviewing the CAM? I believe I have access to the CAD but we do not have a seat of CAM.

Camworks vs solidworks cam