I now have a the chance to learn NX3 and had my first "lesson" today. Knowledge of SW and SE certainly helps in what would other wise be the worlds most confusing software. For my first impression, I would compare it to my garage. I know I have just about everything in there, but finding it is another thing, in fact even walking through it is a major task.
OK so it isn't what you call user friendly. But there was something in there that caught my eye right away. NX3 has a mode in which it behaves very similar to the 3D Feature Based Parametric Modelers we all know and love. It has a kind of feature tree. It is in the feature tree that they did two things that would make life in SW a whole lot nicer. First the feature tree grows up like a real tree. In other words new features go on the top of the tree and push previous features down. So you are always presented with you current work when first glancing at it. Second, if a feature is deleted in a way that would cause SW to delete children it puts the orphans in a folder so the work is not lost. Pretty cool so far.
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