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MACH Layout MACH 1 MACH 2 Cool MACH 3 MACH 3
Designer Design Product Shape Product Industrial
Design Design Design Design Feature-based solid modeling
Design modeling
The core modeling capability in NX
Feature-based solid
combines wireframe, surface, solid,
modeling • • • • • • parametric and direct modeling in
DesignLogic • • • • • • a single environment that enables
User-defined features • • • • designers to choose the most appro-
Assembly design • • • • • • priate tool for the task at hand. NX
Advanced assembly
delivers full feature-based paramet-
modeling • • ric solid modeling and advanced
WAVE control • features including blends, thin-wall,
Basic freeform modeling • • • • • • draft, mirrored features, open
Advanced freeform profile features and patterns. In
• • •
modeling addition, direct modeling with syn-
Freeform shape design • • • chronous technology offers a fast
NX Realize Shape • • and intuitive approach to creating
and editing designs using simple
Process-specific modeling tools
push-and-pull methods, and enables
Sheet metal design • • • • • you to work directly with CAD
Basic routing • • • geometry created on with other
Flexible PCB • • systems. For greater versatility and
Drafting and annotation design flexibility, you can use syn-
chronous modeling interchangeably
NX Layout •
with all of the other modeling tools.
Drafting • • • • • •
A configurable, role-based user
GD&T, 3D annotation • • •
interface displays the commands
Product validation you need as you need them, and
HD3D Visual Report grows as your experience level
Viewing • • • • •
grows.
HD3D Visual Report
Authoring • • DesignLogic
Product and data
• • • DesignLogic enables users to add
validation
design intent or knowledge as
Molded Part Validation • •
needed in the form of formulas
Simulation and expressions. For example, a
Stress and vibration designer may want to drive the
• • • • •
wizards dimensions of a feature using a
formula or mathematical expres-
Design utilities
sion. DesignLogic allows rich control
Design optimization • • of design parameters both at
Data exchange • • • • • • • creation time and during future
XpresReview collaboration • • • • • • modification.
Web publishing • • • • • •
A powerful set of associative mea-
Rendering • • • •
surements allows a designer to not
Custom program
execution • • • • • • only use measurements as a tool in
Knowledge Fusion and sizing and locating new features in
custom wizard execution • • • • • •
the design, but also monitor critical
Rapid prototyping • • • • • • dimensions of a design. You can
Engineering process
• • • • • • also easily add validation checks to
management
any design parameter or associative
measurement. These validation
NX
Synchronous technology in NX Design solutions combines the best of both parametric and Active mockup enables design in the full
direct modeling. assembly context, even with multi-CAD data.
checks can be created on-the-fly or can Assembly design and to manage weight and other mass
be linked to external sources of design NX assembly design supports top-down properties of components and assem-
requirements, such as Microsoft Excel® and bottom-up assembly modeling. It blies. Component filtering techniques
spreadsheets. Validation checks help provides for rapid navigation of the allow users to quickly identify and load
notify a designer if the value of a model assembly hierarchy and allows direct the components of relevance to their
expression ever strays from appropriate access to the design model of any com- current task, avoiding unnecessary
limits. Thus, DesignLogic helps a ponent or subassembly. It supports the delays and screen clutter caused by
designer create smarter, self-checking “design in context” approach where loading irrelevant components.
designs that meet design requirements. changes can be made to any component
Assembly enveloping techniques enable
of the design model while working in
User-defined features (UDFs) the user to represent major subassem-
the context of the assembly.
Designers using NX can capture and blies as simplified abstractions to further
store families of features for easy NX MACH design packages include tools reduce assembly load times and avoid
retrieval, editing and re-use. User- for building and manipulating assembly the display of unwanted or proprietary
defined features enable designers to structures. The use of inter-part relation- interior detail. The sophisticated clear-
establish relationships between parame- ships enables the creation of parametric ance analysis and weight management
ters, define feature variables, set default assemblies that capture and preserve tools provided in advanced assemblies
values and decide the general form the the design intent whenever changes are also optimized for analyzing poten-
feature will take. Existing UDFs reside in are made. tial problems with fit, clearance and
a re-use library that is accessible by any- mass properties.
Assemblies can be easily traversed using
one using NX modeling.
the assembly navigator in conjunction Active mockup
with intelligent component searching A complete digital mockup capability
capabilities. NX assemblies also include extends the toolset for building, editing
support for the creation of flexible and evaluating assembly models. It is
assemblies and parts, enabling different especially useful when working with
arrangements and configurations of large assemblies, but also helps improve
components such as springs and the productivity of most users who work
pistons. regularly in an assembly context. Active
mockup makes use of the standard,
Advanced assembly modeling
CAD-neutral, lightweight JT™ data for-
The advanced assembly modeling
mat. This improves the performance and
capabilities in MACH 3 packages enable
memory efficiency of loading and
you to simplify components or subas-
designing in the context of massive
semblies into a single lightweight solid,
The core assembly design tools in all NX assemblies.
to enclose assembly geometry in an
MACH design solutions support design in the
envelope of planar faces, to partition
assembly context with navigation and inter-
part relationships. assemblies into meaningful regions,
NX
Drafting and annotation dropped into models to automate much drawing to manufacturing and inspec-
of the work associated with manually tion. Incorporating PMI during the de-
Layout for NX created drawings. Drafting tools can be sign process can enhance and shorten
NX offers tools that streamline 2D configured to comply with the drawing the development cycle through better
concept design. These include standard selected by the user – ANSI, communication, fewer errors, stream-
intelligent, parametric 2D components ISO, JIS, DIN, GB and ESKD. lined processes and faster change man-
that can be dragged and dropped from agement.
GD&T, 3D annotation
the re-use library to accelerate creation
With NX, designers can capture all types
of layouts and concepts; synchronous
of geometry, tolerance and dimension- Product validation
technology design tools for fast editing
ing information directly within the 3D
of 2D geometry; data conversion tools; Product and data validation
model, rather than on a 2D drawing. NX
and automated creation of 3D NX validates product designs with a
3D annotation associates product and
assemblies from 2D layouts. model quality assurance checking utility,
manufacturing information with the 3D
NX Check-Mate, which evaluates parts,
model, and complies with all the major
assemblies and drawings to confirm that:
concepts and requirements defined in
the ASME and ISO standards for 3D • Files comply with corporate data
product definition. quality standards
NX quickly and accurately associates • Best practices for modeling and
tolerance information to geometric ob- assemblies have been employed
jects via tolerance features, including • Drawings comply with international
datums, feature control block and geo- standards and corporate documenta-
NX Layout is a fully integrated 2D concept metric dimensioning and tolerancing
design solution.
tion best practices
symbols. NX geometric tolerancing com-
• Poor quality geometric data imported
plies with the ASME and ISO standards
Drafting from other systems is quickly uncov-
for 3D product definition, and enforces
NX drafting automates and streamlines ered and remedied before it becomes
the creation of standard-compliant
engineering drawing production. Draw- a larger problem (for example, mis-
designs.
ings are associative to models, so model matched edges, tiny gaps in faces and
changes automatically update and are PMI supports the creation of dimen- nonmanifold conditions common in
reflected in related drawings. Drafting sions, weld and surface finish symbols, lower-precision modeling tools).
capabilities include dimensioning, sym- material specification notes, part identi-
Validation checks embedded in a design
bols, tabular notes, sheet layout and fication labels and a number of other
can also help notify a designer if the
placement of standard orthographic and manufacturing and process-related an-
value of a model expression ever strays
auxiliary views, automatic view creation notations. Because the PMI is created in
from within appropriate limits. These
from the 3D model, hidden line process- the 3D CAD model and directly associat-
validation checks can be created
ing and automatic parts list generation. ed to objects in the part, the informa-
on-the-fly or can be linked to external
Templates that include drawing borders tion can be easily re-used by a number
sources of design requirements, such
and view layouts can be dragged and of downstream processes, from the 2D
as Excel spreadsheets. Companies can
use the validation checking results to
establish product quality metrics and
pre-emptively head off quality issues
in the earliest stages of the develop-
ment process.
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