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 From:  DannyT (DANTAS)
2570.172 In reply to 2570.170 
Hi neo,

> Perhaps DannyT could give us some info on how it works with Synchronous Technology in NX

Synchronous in NX is great for modifying models from other cad programs that are imported with no feature history, but as Michael mentions;
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For things like circles, holes, extrusions, primitives, that kind of stuff tends to be a better fit with the direct modeling approach, and many times mechanical parts are made up of only those kinds of structures, so that's why direct modeling is mostly oriented towards mechanical part design currently.

All our modeling is done in house, we rarely receive non native or parameterised models from outside, so we only use history based modeling, but in our line of work we need to model with history. In NX you can model in a number of different ways; with history, history free or a mixture of both, we do use Synchronous for convenience but I'd say it's used 2% for our modeling.

Also, depending on the imported data it can fail because of how other cad packages build surfaces and how those surfaces are translated, but all in all it does work like you see in the demos that you can find on youtube.

Cheers
~Danny~