{"id":2564,"date":"2008-06-03T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Shape-Control-with-NX\/ba-p\/333671"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:21:29","slug":"shape-control-with-nx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/shape-control-with-nx\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape Control with NX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>You should only be limited by what can be manufactured, not what can be modeled.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><BR \/>Stephen Samuel Founder and President of Design Visionaries has just finished a lecture on designing complex shapes with NX.&nbsp; I figured that since Mr. Samuel has been presenting at this conference for the last 15 years and has written a few books about using NX, I should probably see what he has to say.<BR \/><BR \/>Briefly, he compared using NX well to playing a musical instrument.&nbsp; It takes a certain amount of practice, creativity and artistry to become a good industrial designer.<BR \/><BR \/>The bulk of the lecture was a demonstration on creating a complex shape with NX.&nbsp; Take a look at a consumer good. If the light is reflecting off of it evenly and regularly, the designer knew what he was doing.&nbsp;<BR \/><DIV id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6ac087cf-8aec-4802-b509-a0331baf0a47\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/NX plmconam08\">NX plmconam08<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should only be limited by what can be manufactured, not what can be modeled.   Stephen Samuel Founder and President of Design Visionaries has just finished a lecture on designing complex shapes w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}