NX For Mechanical Design Fact Sheet - ATA Engineering Inc

NX for Mechanical DesignBenefitst Facilitates design control,speeds the design process,increases designer anddesign team productivity andimproves design throughputt Improves design teamperformance, especially forhandling large, complexmodelst Raises product quality byminimizing design errorst Produces faster, moreaccurate and completeproduct documentationt Produces significant time,effort and cost savings byfacilitating design re-uset Facilitates better integrationand coordination betweenmultiple design disciplines,design teams and theirrelated CAD systemsFeaturest Comprehensive 3D designcapabilities, includingwireframe, surface, solid anddirect modelingt Synchronous technology foruniting parametric andhistory-free modeling in thesame design environmentt Assembly modeling with fullcontext, multi-CAD digitalmockup and validation toolsNXwww.siemens.com/nxSummaryThe NX software for mechanical design provides a comprehensive set ofleading-edge CAD modeling tools that enable companies to design higherquality products faster and less expensively. The NX comprehensivemechanical design solution lets you choose the tools and methodologies thatbest suit your design challenge. Innovative technologies deliver breakthroughmechanical design capabilities that set new standards for speed, performanceand ease-of-use.Transforming product development by delivering greater power, speed,quality, productivity and efficiency for mechanical designNX mechanical design capabilities are unmatched in terms of the power,versatility, flexibility and productivity they deliver to your digital productdevelopment environment. NX enables you to establish a complete designsolution for your environment, including leading-edge tools andmethodologies for:t Comprehensive high-performance modeling, which enables you toseamlessly use the most productive modeling approaches – from explicitsolid and surface modeling to parametric, process-specific and history-freedirect modeling that works with models from any CAD system.t Active mockup and assembly design, which enables you to workinteractively with massive multi-CAD assemblies while leveraging leadingassembly management and engineering tools.t Standards-compliant drafting and 3D annotation, which streamlinesthe creation of product documentation by directly leveraging your 3Dmaster model.Today’s mechanical design challengesManufacturing companies are driven by an increased pressure to developmore innovative products in a shorter time frame while continuing to deliverhigh levels of quality. Even with mature 3D CAD technology, many companiesfail to significantly reduce process waste, improve product quality or deliverbreakthrough product innovations that stir the imagination of themarketplace.These challenges require a radical rethinking of the business model thatpertains to product development. This rethinking should begin withtransforming the design process. Product design fuels the entire development

NXNX for Mechanical DesignFeatures continuedt Interactive design of massiveassemblies that improves theperformance and capacity ofyour design environmentt Process-specific, streamlinedmodeling tools for sheetmetal routed systems andother applicationst Configurable, intuitiveinterface that facilitatesease-of-use, user learningand accessibility to powerfulmodeling capabilitiest Associative integration withall NX product developmentsolutions, including NXindustrial design,electromechanical,simulation, tooling andmachining solutionst Automated, real-time designvalidation checking tomonitor functionalrequirementst Knowledge capture andautomation toolst Seamlessly integrated,transparent engineering dataand process managementeffort. Today’s design processes involveincreasingly complex products comprisedof design elements created by multipleteams, disciplines and suppliers usingindependent CAD systems. These complexprocesses require product makers tocoordinate the activities of team membersdispersed across different geographieswhile retaining design intent from thestart of the design project toits completion.Companies need design processes thatcompress the design cycle by eliminatingvalue-added tasks, maximizing knowledgere-use and proactively addressingmanufacturability issues before they reachthe factory floor. Product developers needto “design-in” rather than “inspect-in”product quality.NX next-generation design solutionsNX delivers next-generation designsolutions that transform the entire productdevelopment cycle. NX represents a radicaldeparture from conventional CAD systems.NX improves speed and efficiency whileeliminating wasted work by providingunique technologies and methodologies,including:Knowledge-enabled design NXautomates and simplifies design byenabling you to leverage the product andprocess knowledge that your company hasgained from its experiences as well as fromindustry best practices. NX tools enabledesigners to capture knowledge in theform of high-level product structure,templates, frequently used designfeatures, engineering rules, formulae andvalidation checks. Knowledge-enableddesign helps your company reduce designcosts, compress the design cycle andimprove design quality.NX seamlessly integrates Teamcenter-managedengineering and process data, enabling designersto quickly search a single source of knowledge andlocate the information they need to use.You can manage your entire designprocess with Siemens’ Teamcenter software, which lets you establish andseamlessly integrate a single source ofproduct and process knowledge into yourdesign environment. This enables you tocoordinate your design chain, standardizeyour design processes and acceleratedecision making throughout thedesign cycle.Process innovation NX enables you toestablish an interactive environmentwhere everyday design work can bestreamlined through the implementationof task-oriented workflows that improvedesigner productivity. NX designenvironments facilitate high-performancemodeling techniques that provide designteams with the flexibility and power tohandle design of virtually any size orcomplexity. NX allows you to dynamicallyintegrate your CAD processes withplanning, simulation, tooling, manufacturing and other lifecycle processes andmake informed design decisions byrecognizing the requirements of alldesign stakeholders and coordinatingtheir activity.More specifically, NX addresses themechanical design process directly throughits capabilities for:t Comprehensive high-performancemodelingt Active mockup and assembly designt Standards-compliant drafting and3D annotationComprehensive high-performancemodelingNX delivers the most powerful and flexiblemodeling solutions available – solutionsthat enable you to freely use any modelingtechnique that fits your design challenge.All NX modeling tools are built on Siemens’Parasolid geometry modeling kernel, theworld’s most powerful, robust and widelyused modeling foundation.Design Freedom NX supports DesignFreedom powered by Siemens’groundbreaking synchronous technology.This unique approach enables you to unitefeature-based parametric and history-freemodeling in the same design environment.Design Freedom means that your designerscan use NX synchronous modeling tools tomodify design geometry initially createdon other CAD systems or by othermodeling techniques. It does not matterwhether the data in question was importedfrom another CAD system or whether isnative parametric or nonparametric. NX

NXDesign re-use Design re-use becomesincreasingly more important as today’smanufacturers try to expand their marketshare by establishing product platforms.NX lets you use any part or assembly as atemplate for new designs, building productknowledge and best practices into yourdevelopment processes. This capabilitysupports your commonization,modularization and re-use initiatives byenabling you to reduce design time by upto 80 percent.NX synchronous technology enables designersto perform history-free editing on importedCAD models.synchronous tools enable designers towork directly with any geometry withoutthe need to rebuild data. These synchronoustools let designers use parametric featureswithout the limitations of a feature history.Process-specific modeling ConventionalCAD systems leave it up to the designer tofigure out how to apply a system’s varioustools. In contrast, NX logically structurescommands in workflows oriented toaccomplishing specific design tasks. NX isprepackaged with industry roles that tailorthe user interface and incorporate bestpractice guidelines. NX also deliversprocess-based tools that build in domainexpertise for meeting specific challenges(such as dealing with sheet metalcomponents) or for performing industryspecific processes (such as handlingautomotive body structures and generalpackaging). Process-specific design aidsenable designers to work faster thangeneral purpose CAD tools.Sheet metal design is one of several streamlinedprocess-specific modeling tools provided by NX.NX knowledge-enabled design tools let companiesre-use existing designs as customized templatesfor new designs.Active mockup and assembly designNX powerful mockup and assemblycapabilities provide your designenvironment with a variety of interactivecapabilities that expedite your assemblydesign and engineering processes.Active Mockup NX Active Mockupenables your designers to easily navigatelarge assemblies and establish an appropriate environment for detailed work onNX Active Mockup and assembly managementenables collaborative design to be performed inthe full context of complex assemblies.subassemblies and components. ActiveMockup utilizes industry-standard JT technology to enable designers to loadthousands of components from multipleCAD systems in just seconds. JT is a highlyflexible CAD neutral format that allowsdesigners to fully represent all relevantmodel information. The JT format can becreated from most major CAD applications.Depending on your type of businessprocess, JT data can be very lightweight orvery rich. JT models are able to holdprecise model geometry, productstructures, attributes and PMI, includinggeometric data, translations andannotations. JT enables you to loadassemblies with up to a million parts withexceptional interactive performance.As a result, Active Mockup providesdesigners with a true interactive designcapability that lets them rapidly display,section and rotate very large assemblies.Active Mockup enables design teams tocollaborate by viewing, modifying andevaluating complete digital mockups.Teams can view as much of the productdesign as required to evaluate its parts inthe context of a particular task. Thesedesign-in-context capabilities facilitaterapid problem resolution during thephysical assembly process.Assembly design validation NX providesvalidation tools that enable your designersto identify and resolve assembly designand process problems in the early stages ofdevelopment – without resorting tophysical prototyping. NX enables designersto perform interactive clearance checkingand interference checking to detect andNX assembly validation tools include extractionpath planning capabilities that optimize designsso that a product can be easily assembled,disassembled and maintained.