Sherpa Design: Innovative Mechanical Design Services

Sherpa Design offers customized training both in our classroom and onsite at your facility with our mobile classroom. We have developed focused training solutions that address the NX tools your company uses most in addition to release upgrade and special application classes.

Our experienced instructors have been using UG/NX for more than 12 years (v.10) so we know how the software works and how it has evolved over the years. We use it in our daily design work so we know it through real world experience. Make sure your NX instructors have the experience and real-world application background your company will value.

Contact Us today to arrange for a usage assessment and start getting the most out of your NX investment through more productive users.

NX Advanced Drafting Course

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This course provides the drafter/designer with the ability to produce higher level quality drawings often needed to describe complex products or systems. It can often take a drafter years to discover the techniques and advanced methods covered in this course and deliver the ability to produce complex drawing packages. Taking fundamental drawing skills to the next level to unlock the advanced productivity tools that NX offers. Advanced techniques for generating drawings of components, assemblies, and drafting task automation.

Release Upgrade Training

If your organization can't afford the down time that is usually accustomed with a major release upgrade, let Sherpa Design help make the transition an easy one. We can come onsite for dedicated training classes and then be available for over-the-shoulder mentoring to help users get over the little hurdles that tend to make new releases troublesome. We prefer to MBWA (mentor by walking around) to make sure the training sticks and your users are productive from Go Live. Email and phone support is average. Having somebody to field a quick question and get your users going again is progress.

Duration: 2 days

Cost:

$599 per user, minimum 3 per local class (must have 6 – 60 users for onsite)

Dates:
New NX8 Upgrade class

Portland, OR

January 18 – 19, 2012

February 8 – 9, 2012

Site Setup and Deployment Services

Sherpa Design can help with initial setup and new user training to get your NX deployment going. We can make recommendations or provide setup services for seeds parts, drawing borders, Parts Lists, and custom attributes to help get your organization off in the right direction. We have had fortune of working with many organizations and have seen what methods work better than others.

NX CAD Foundation

This course introduces the basic and intermediate level uses of modeling, assemblies, drafting, sheet metal applications, and even introduces Synchronous modeling techniques. This course is based on real world use, and features tasks designers and engineers face in their day to day work. Instructor led portions are interspersed with project style application use. After attending this class you should be able to roll up your sleeves and start designing in NX.

Prerequisite: prior understanding and experience with the fundamentals of solid modeling and drafting. You have used another 3D parametric CAD package before (Pro/E, I-deas, Catia, Solidworks, etc). This could be a good upgrade class if you are working in 2 or more releases behind the current release of NX.

Duration: 5 days

Cost:

$2200 per user.
(Group rates are available for 7+ users; please contact us: info@sherpa-design.com)

Dates:

Portland, OR

January 23 – 27, 2012

March 5 – 9, 2012

May 21 – 25, 2012

NX Synchronous Modeling

This class introduces the concepts of Synchronous Modeling and the tools that allow direct editing of geometry, even on imported/feature-less models. You will learn which commands are functional in History and History Free modes. Sample projects and use cases will be worked in class and strategy to employ . Upon completion of this course you will be able to start working confidently with this powerful tool set.

Prerequisite: At least 1 year of consistent usage of NX modeling application.

Duration: 2 days

Cost: $599

NX Advanced Drafting

This class builds on the basics and teaches you how to create drawings that meet a higher standard. Non-geometric components in the BOM, advanced section views, break out detail views, associative notes and text, and other techniques to create drawings that need to convey more information than average.

Prerequisite: At least 1 year of consistent drafting and modeling application usage in NX.

Duration: 2 days

Cost: $599

Users learn best away from their daily work distractions. When coordinating workstation and license relocations are more than you want to deal with, let us bring the classroom to you. We provide Dell M90 Workstation laptops preconfigured with NX to make the training the focus.