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NX for Mechanical Design

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Benefits Facilitates design control,

speeds the design process,increases designer anddesign team productivity andimproves design throughput

Improves design teamperformance, especially forhandling large, complexmodels

Raises product quality byminimizing design errors Produces faster, more

accurate and completeproduct documentation

Produces significant time,effort and cost savings byfacilitating design re-use

Facilitates better integrationand coordination betweenmultiple design disciplines,design teams and theirrelated CAD systems

Features Comprehensive 3D design

capabilities, includingwireframe, surface, solid anddirect modeling

Synchronous technology foruniting parametric andhistory-free modeling in thesame design environment

Assembly modeling with full-context, multi-CAD digitalmockup and validation tools

SummaryThe 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: Comprehensive high-performance modeling, which enables you to

seamlessly 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.

Active mockup and assembly design, which enables you to workinteractively with massive multi-CAD assemblies while leveraging leadingassembly management and engineering tools.

Standards-compliant drafting and 3D annotation, which streamlinesthe creation of product documentation by directly leveraging your 3Dmaster model.

Todays 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 with

transforming the design process. Product design fuels the entire development

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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, manufac-turing 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: Comprehensive high-performance

modeling Active mockup and assembly design Standards-compliant drafting and

3D annotation

Comprehensive 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 SiemensParasolid geometry modeling kernel, theworlds most powerful, robust and widelyused modeling foundation.

Design Freedom NX supports DesignFreedom powered by Siemensgroundbreaking 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 impor tedfrom another CAD system or whether isnative parametric or nonparametric. NX

effort. Todays 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 need

to design-in rather than inspect-inproduct 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.

You can manage your entire designprocess with Siemens Teamcentersoftware, 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.

NX for Mechanical Design

Features continued Interactive design of massive

assemblies that improves theperformance and capacity ofyour design environment

Process-specific, streamlinedmodeling tools for sheetmetal routed systems andother applications

Configurable, intuitiveinterface that facilitatesease-of-use, user learningand accessibility to powerfulmodeling capabilities

Associative integration withall NX product developmentsolutions, including NXindustrial design,

electromechanical,simulation, tooling andmachining solutions

Automated, real-time designvalidation checking tomonitor functionalrequirements

Knowledge capture andautomation tools

Seamlessly integrated,transparent engineering dataand process management

NX seamlessly integrates Teamcenter-managedengineering and process data, enabling designersto quickly search a single source of knowledge andlocate the information they need to use.

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subassemblies and components. ActiveMockup utilizes industry-standard JTtechnology 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 and

Design re-use Design re-use becomesincreasingly more important as todaysmanufacturers 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.

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 appro-priate environment for detailed work on

synchronous tools enable designers to

work 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 systems 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 industry-specific processes (such as handlingautomotive body structures and generalpackaging). Process-specific design aidsenable designers to work faster thangeneral purpose CAD tools.

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NX synchronous technology enables designersto perform history-free editing on importedCAD models.

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 cus tomized templatesfor new designs.

NX Active Mockup and assembly managementenables collaborative design to be performed inthe full context of complex assemblies.

NX assembly validation tools include extractionpath planning capabilities that optimize designsso that a product can be easily assembled,disassembled and maintained.

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NX drafting capabilities enable designersto rapidly lay out their drawings, as well asto create drawing views, detailing anddimensioning and geometric dimensioningand tolerancing (GD&T). Since NX adheresto the industry standards for PMI 3D modelannotation, the dimensions, symbols andtolerances can be automatically inheritedon drawing views and directly used bydownstream analysis and manufacturingapplications. This improves productivity byeliminating the need to re-enter thisinformation.

Standards-compliant drafting and3D annotationNX delivers production-driven tools fordocumenting your designs either asstandards-compliant 2D drawings or 3Dproduct and manufacturing information(PMI) annotations. You can use thesecapabilities to ensure that design intent isproperly communicated throughout yourdevelopment organization. They improveproduct quality by removing potentialsources of interpretation error from yourdesign environment and by speeding theprocess you use to take your designs tomanufacturing.

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eliminate fit problems. Designers caninteractively simulate assembly motion tocheck and optimize moving components.

With automated assembly path planningand motion envelopes, designers canoptimize products for assembly,disassembly, maintenance and service.Designers can record and play backassembly and motion sequences as moviesthat can be shared as assemblyinstructions with the factory floor. Thesesimple to use tools can be leveraged toquickly validate design changes as theproduct evolves.

Routed systems design NX provides toolsthat enable designers to create and

validate routed subsystems for bothmechanical and electrical designs.Mechanical routing tools and libraries areavailable for tubing, piping and steelwork.Electrical routing tools enable designers toplace wiring, conduit and raceways whilestandard component libraries are availablefor electrical systems. NX electrical routingincludes wire harness design andmanufacturing support, eliminating theneed for physical prototype and reducingproduct development time by allowingdesigners to perform interface checks,validate design rules, visualize the routingpattern in 3D and trace the location ofspecific wires and connections.

NX maintains associative links between theP&ID layout and the 3D systems to ensurethat system logic is maintained. Designerscan quickly apply logical design changes tothe routed system. Routed systems arefully associative to NX assemblies tofacilitate design changes. Automated billof material and other reporting provideinformation for subsystem manufacturing.

Designers can use NX to directly include complete PMI on a 3D design model, thereby improvingcommunications and accelerating downstream applications.

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