Design Visionaries Releases "Basic To Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting And Assemblies"

    SAN JOSE, CA, January 15, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Design Visionaries had just released the book, Basic to Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies!

Basic to Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies is the newly revised version of Design Visionaries' previous CAD training textbooks. The content, detail, and exercises included in this edition have been greatly expanded from previous editions.

Topics include: Synchronous Modeling, Master Modeling, Fundamental Curves, Intermediate Curves, Editing Entities, Design Features, Reference Features, Surface Features, Detail Features, Sheet Metal Features, and Injection-Molded Parts and Castings.

This book makes an effort to show not only the details of the most important commands, but the powerful combinations that Design Visionaries has used to bring about excellent designs.

This manual will teach the basic modeling, assemblies, and drafting functionality of NX6.

Basic to Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies
by Stephen M. Samuel, Benjamin Stevenson, Eric Weeks and Anuranjini Pragada
ISBN: 978-0-9754377-8-0
Trade Paper, $149
Publication Date: December, 2008

About the Authors
Stephen Samuel, Founder and President of Design Visionaries, has over 20 years' experience in developing and using high-end CAD tools and mentoring its users. During a ten-year career at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, he was responsible for implementing advanced CAD/CAM technology in a design/manufacturing environment. He has trained thousands of engineers in Unigraphics, written self-paced courses in UG Advanced Modeling and Best Practices, and performed design work for numerous Fortune 500 companies. Stephen is the author of distinctive publications on UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM.

Eric Weeks, Senior Engineer, has over 10 years of mechanical design and product development engineering experience at DV, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic. He has developed products using Unigraphics and Pro/ENGINEER. He has trained engineers in UGNX CAD and Teamcenter Engineering PLM. Eric is co-author of Teamcenter Engineering PLM publications and co-inventor on pending U.S. Patents.

Benjamin Stevenson is a Senior Engineer at Design Visionaries. He earned his BSE (Honors) Product Design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland in 2006. He has been instrumental in creating complex design models of difficult Earth Moving equipment and numerous other geometries. He has also served as an NX5 expert trainer and has extremely satisfied customers as far afield as Japan, the U. S. and Mexico.

Anuranjini Pragada, Industrial Design Lead at DV, has extensive industrial design and product design experience with different 3D Modeling software, including Unigraphics, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, CDRS, AutoCAD, 3D Studio MAX and Mechanical Desktop. She has been a major contributor to a vast array of products from automotive to medical to consumer electronics. She specializes in creative uses of computer-aided design and modeling.

About Design Visionaries

Design Visionaries offers a unique blend of engineering-related products and engineering know-how. With over 100 years of combined experience, Design Visionaries is fortunate to have extremely talented, highly qualified, creative professionals available to supply an extraordinary array of design and engineering services. Design Visionaries' knowledge and experience span a large range of engineering disciplines and industries. The team has worked in the fields of aerospace, medical, automotive, industrial, and consumer products to mention a few. Let Design Visionaries help you accelerate your product development through process innovation, and global collaboration.

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