{"id":744,"date":"2012-07-30T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-8-5-preview-Unite-with-region-selection\/ba-p\/334963"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:27:40","slug":"nx-8-5-preview-unite-with-region-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-8-5-preview-unite-with-region-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"NX 8.5 preview &#8211; Unite with region selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Another new feature coming in NX8.5 is &#8220;Unite with Region Selection&#8221;.When uniting solid bodies that have overlapping, or excess material, you can use region selection to identify a collection of faces that should be kept or removed when the solid bodies are united.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-11362 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/nx-8-5-preview-unite-with-region-selection\/unite\/\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11362\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/07\/unite.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"259\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Region selection saves you from having to trim the bodies before uniting them. This simplifies the part navigator feature tree, as there are no separate trim body features listed.<BR \/><BR \/>In the following video Derek England, Product&nbsp;Manager&nbsp;for NX Design explains how it works, and how it can be used by our customers.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KMc4KeA4zBA\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>This new feature allows  you to create your desired geometry with about 30 percent fewer commands and 25 percent fewer features.<BR \/><BR \/>In the next few days, I&#8217;ll share afew more features coming up in NX8.5!<BR \/><BR \/>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new feature coming in NX8.5 is &#8220;Unite with Region Selection&#8221;.When uniting solid bodies that have overlapping, or excess material, you can use region selection to identify a coll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"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":[226],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}