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Siemens PLM Software
NX MACH design solutions
Power, flexibility and control improve design productivity
Benefits Summary designs. Each level of the solutions builds
• Boosts product design The NX MACH™ software products are upon the other, providing increasingly more
efficiency prepackaged solutions delivering high- sophisticated and advanced design
• Accelerates mechanical performance computer-aided design (CAD) capabilities.
design processes capabilities of NX™ software, the leading
NX MACH Designer
solution for mechanical design. They offer
• Improves collaboration This entry-level solution offers tools for
competitively priced solutions tailored to
creating and editing designs of typical
• Reduces design process specific product development roles, practices
mechanical components and assemblies,
waste and processes, in four performance tiers.
with solid modeling and drafting, basic
• Improves design quality Value-added upgrades are available to move
freeform modeling and sheet metal design.
customers from one tier to the next. Each
It includes tools for design review, rapid
package delivers complete capabilities for
Features prototyping, web publishing, validation
production work.
• End-to-end mechanical checking, re-use library and custom program
product design solution with NX MACH 1, 2 and 3 solutions include execution. It also offers design-oriented
a rich set of supporting tools engineering process management capabili- stress and vibration analysis wizards.
ties for improved design team collaboration.
• High-performance modeling, NX Layout
Optional extended engineering process
drafting and comprehensive NX Layout is a fully integrated 2D concept
management tools provide scalable collabo-
assembly design powered by design solution for NX. Built on proven NX
ration and advanced management.
synchronous technology technology, the software employs re-usable
• Comprehensive pre- All of the NX MACH design solutions share a 2D components to enhance 2D concept
configured solutions tailored common denominator of high-performance design. Further, it can automatically create
for the full range of product CAD functions and the ability to use power- assembly structures based on 2D layouts to
design applications ful high-definition 3D (HD3D) Visual accelerate the detailed design phase. NX
Reporting, enabling designers and engineers Layout provides a number of dedicated tools
to quickly understand key elements of their to support 2D design and layout, as well as
2D-to-3D capabilities.
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NX
NX MACH design solutions
Features continued NX MACH 1 Design Enhancing basic design through
• Power and flexibility This solution delivers all the capabilities of production
that supports virtually NX MACH Designer, plus a managed environ- The NX MACH design software packages
any design methodology, ment powered by Teamcenter® software, deliver comprehensive and scalable digital
whether top-down or with data management and visualization product development system from Siemens
bottom-up capabilities for product and process PLM Software that addresses all stages of the
• A cornerstone of a management. product development process, from basic
complete product design through production.
NX MACH 2 Product Design
development system The MACH 2 Product Design package pro- The NX MACH packages transform the
• Foundation for product vides enhanced product design capabilities, product development process and support
lifecycle management including flexible printed circuit board dynamic change within organizations by:
• Extendible with a design, validation checking, user-defined
• Increasing innovation throughout the
selection of add-on features, rendering, 3D annotation for
product development process
application modules Product and Manufacturing Information
(PMI) and basic routing. • Eliminating waste by better utilizing time,
material and intellectual resources
NX Cool Shape Design
NX Cool Shape Design is a modeling-only • Improving quality from the beginning
environment delivering NX tools for fast and
The NX MACH design solutions offer the
easy development of complex shapes. NX
following advantages:
Cool Shape Design includes the advanced
freeform tools and NX Realize Shape™ • Unified solution – seamless application
subdivision modeling. integration rapidly propagates changes to
product and associated process
NX MACH 3 Product Design
information
The MACH 3 Product Design package
provides a high-performance solution with • Engineering process management – fully
NX design capabilities for advanced assembly integrated, synchronized product data and
design, advanced freeform modeling and process knowledge management
surface analysis, design optimization and • Knowledge-driven automation – re-use of
molded part validation. product and process knowledge across all
elements and phases of product
NX MACH 3 Industrial Design
development
MACH 3 Industrial Design delivers a broad
range of NX design tools, and extends the • Integrated simulation and validation –
freeform modeling capabilities with NX comprehensive simulation and validation
Realize Shape, bringing powerful subdivision tools check product performance and
modeling capabilities into the NX manufacturability throughout every step
environment. of product development
NX
NX MACH design solutions NX MACH design capabilities
NX NX NX NX NX NX NX Design modeling
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
WAVE control It includes general-purpose design and Process-specific modeling tools
NX WAVE is a geometry linking tool that manufacturing sweeps and flanges,
enables designers to define interpart including dynamic law extensions, sil- Sheet metal design
relationships for parametric assembly houette flanges, ribbons and sectional NX provides a solids-based application
modeling. WAVE assembly control struc- sweeps. Designers can shape surfaces that is focused on design for manufac-
tures and constraints help simplify turing of sheet metal parts. Designers
design changes and accelerate modeling can create sheet metal component mod-
of configurations, options and variants. els using feature-based design tools for
tabs, flanges and other typical features.
Basic freeform modeling
They can define forming tables and
Basic freeform modeling in NX provides
bend sequence tables, and reform the
tools for creating complex surface and
solid model, taking into account mate-
solid models. Capabilities include:
rial deformation properties. The sheet
• Creating solids from sheets metal tools generate accurate flat pat-
• Basic sweeping along curves tern data for downstream applications.
• Proportionally developed shapes Basic routing
using 1-, 2- and 3-rail methods NX MACH 2 and 3 deliver routing capa-
bilities that allow designers create and
• Lofting – ruled, curve mesh, lofted NX design solutions include process-specific
edit pipe, tube and cable runs. The rout-
shapes using standard conic methods modeling for straight-brake sheet metal
components. ing capabilities also enable intelligent
and meshes of points and curves
part selection and placement of stan-
• Special surface creation – surface by direct point and pole manipulation, dard components such as elbows and
extension and n-sided, bounded plane and with boundary, degree and stiffness tees. The routing capabilities can be
offset controls. Surfaces can be trimmed, extended by adding discipline-specific
• Surface manipulation tools – surface extended, offset, combined, divided or functionality for advanced applications
extension and surface normal control enlarged. Advanced surface analysis including cabling, piping and tubing and
tools provide real-time graphical feed- heating, ventilation and air conditioning
• Body-based trimming
back that assists in analytical and visual (HVAC).
• Surface trimming using curves evaluation of surface quality.
Flexible printed circuit design
Freeform shape design NX provides an environment for design
Freeform shape design enables design- of both flexible and rigid printed circuits.
ers to create conceptual surfaces for Based on workflows common to the
quickly capturing initial design intent, design of printed circuit boards, the
as well as creating and editing curves flexible printed circuit design tools help
directly on surfaces. It has direct surface designers model printed circuits rapidly
modeling capabilities that maintain and accurately in the context of an
associative surface boundary continuity assembly and send the outlines to man-
controls ranging from G0 to G3. Styled ufacturing or to an ECAD system for
sweeps associatively sweep profile further refinement. The printed circuit
curves along multiple guides, and model developed in NX can be checked
advanced surface trimming creates cut for clearances and tolerances, and then
surfaces independent of original the finished board model can be trans-
NX Realize Shape delivers fast, intuitive surfaces. ferred to an ECAD system for further
subdivision modeling technology for more refinement, such as component
NX Realize Shape
efficient design of complex shapes. placement or circuit trace or layer
NX Realize Shape uses subdivision
development.
modeling methods to enable customers to
Advanced freeform modeling
develop high-quality advanced 3D product
Advanced freeform modeling extends
forms in a fraction of the time required by
the toolset to include complex filleting,
traditional tools. NX Realize Shape is fully
blends and transition surfaces. Guided
integrated with other NX modeling func-
assistance accelerates the creation of
tions, allowing advanced shapes to be
solids from sheets, and the software
built and combined with traditional mod-
also helps create surfaces from external
eling approaches to develop advanced
point, pole and point cloud data.
shapes quickly and easily.
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.
the re-use library to accelerate creation GD&T, 3D annotation
of layouts and concepts; synchronous With NX, designers can capture all types
of geometry, tolerance and dimension- Product validation
technology design tools for fast editing
of 2D geometry; data conversion tools; ing information directly within the 3D
Product and data validation
and automated creation of 3D model, rather than on a 2D drawing. NX
NX validates product designs with a
assemblies from 2D layouts. 3D annotation associates product and
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.
Production drafting accelerates creation of NX MACH 2 and 3 design solutions include
engineering drawings that are dynamically advanced geometric dimensioning and
associated with the 3D model. tolerancing, plus 3D annotation tools for
adding process and manufacturing
information to the model.
NX
HD3D Visual Reporting Design optimization
HD3D Visual Reporting software blends
information of interest from your com- Optimization Wizard
pany’s data sources directly into the 3D NX offers a tool that aids in understand-
product design environment. This helps ing which parameters are key to design
designers make easier unambiguous objectives. Users identify candidate
assessments, interpret information more variable design parameters and a design
accurately and synthesize product and goal. The Optimization Wizard then
process data rapidly into correct design applies sensitivity and filtering tools
decisions. together with engineering constraints to
identify the more critical design parame-
HD3D Visual Reporting comes with a set ters and then optimize them. The
of predefined, out-of-the-box reports step-by-step wizard provides engineers
NX MACH 3 design solutions include molded that provide your design teams with
part validation that checks draft angles, with a method to ensure that their prod-
answers to a series of commonly asked uct designs are optimized to best meet
undercut areas, sharp angles and wall
thickness to ensure moldability.
questions. Reports related to ownership, design goals. It also enables designers
check out, part maturity, projects, load and engineers to capture engineering
status, validation status and more are requirements, automate the exploration
available for instant use. With the of alternatives and automatically iden-
authoring capability you can create and tify optimized solutions.
modify your own reports to extract and
present the data that is key to your
Design utilities
business.
Data exchange
HD3D visual reporting and validation tools NX data exchange tools include the
present information with the 3D model for fast most commonly used translators needed
and intuitive interpretation. to bring data into and out of NX, includ-
ing IGES, STEP AP203, STEP AP214,
DXF/DWG, and 2D exchange. These
Molded part validation
translators include geometry repair and
NX MACH 3 packages include a molded
simplification capabilities to ensure the
part validation tool that enables design-
most useful data possible. All of the
ers to check the moldability, even if they
translators can be run externally from
know virtually nothing about mold
NX or directly inside NX from “File
design. NX analyzes parts and automati-
Import/Export” and “File Open/ Save As”
cally provides designers with informa-
or from the command line, making
tion about draft angles, undercut areas,
them customizable to any workflow.
sharp corners, small radiuses, and other NX MACH 3 design solutions include design
items that could compromise molding optimization that identifies key design param- XpresReview collaboration
quality. It also provides designers with eters and ensures that products best meet For ad hoc design reviews, the
an easy visual check of core and their design objectives. XpresReview software creates packaged
cavity sides. files of lightweight design models and
related documents that can be distrib-
uted via e-mail and viewed outside the
NX environment with the free
XpresReview viewer.
NX
Web publishing Custom program execution Add-ons available
NX includes an HTML publishing tool All NX packaged design solutions can Customers can extend NX MACH design
for creating detailed documentation run custom programs that were devel- solutions with a selection of optional
based on information in NX design files. oped with the NX Open software add-on modules. These add-ons enable
Web publishing uses template files that development tools. customers to configure their design
contain both HTML and special NX solutions to specific requirements such
Knowledge Fusion and custom
embedded commands. These com- as specialized design tools, design-
wizard execution
mands extract information from a integrated simulation solutions,
MACH design packages can run
design file and write it to an HTML programming and customization
applications created with the
file that can be read universally. toolkits, extended engineering process
Knowledge Fusion knowledge-based
management and direct translators.
Rapid prototyping engineering package and programs
NX enables users to automatically out- created with Process Studio wizard Applications include:
put model data in the faceted STL building tools. • Advanced and aerospace sheet metal
format used with rapid prototyping
technologies, such as stereolithography • Simulation
and fused deposition. This capability • Human modeling
reduces turnaround time regardless of • Customization/automation
the specific rapid prototyping technol-
• Automotive design
ogy employed.
• Tool design
Rendering
Rendering tools in NX can be used to • Visual reporting and analytics
communicate designs clearly and to • Direct translators for other CAD
create images that can be used through- Engineering process management, powered by systems
out the design and manufacturing Teamcenter, integrates product, process and
processes. Users can accurately visualize program management with NX design tools.
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