Siemens PLM NX Mach Design Solutions Fact Sheet

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. capabilities of NX™ software, the leading design processes NX MACH Designer solution for mechanical design. They offer This entry-level solution offers tools for • Improves collaboration 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 Value-added upgrades are available to move • Improves design quality 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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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 design through production. complete product 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: design, validation checking, user-defined • Extendible with a • Increasing innovation throughout the features, rendering, 3D annotation for selection of add-on 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

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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 combines wireframe, surface, solid, Feature-based 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 synchronous 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 designer may want to drive the Stress and vibration • • • • • 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

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, assemblies. The core assembly design tools in all NX to enclose assembly geometry in an MACH design solutions support design in the envelope of planar faces, to partition assembly context with navigation and interpart relationships. assemblies into meaningful regions,

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 capabilities 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 ing capabilities also enable intelligent and meshes of points and curves components. 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 heating, ventilation and air conditioning • Body-based trimming tools provide real-time graphical feed- 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 refinement, such as component subdivision modeling technology for more 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.

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 Product validation technology design tools for fast editing of geometry, tolerance and dimension- of 2D geometry; data conversion tools; ing information directly within the 3D model, rather than on a 2D drawing. NX Product and data validation 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 from other systems is quickly uncov- Drafting for 3D product definition, and enforces ered and remedied before it becomes NX drafting automates and streamlines the creation of standard-compliant a larger problem (for example, mis- engineering drawing production. Draw- 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). material specification notes, part identi- capabilities include dimensioning, sym- Validation checks embedded in a design fication labels and a number of other bols, tabular notes, sheet layout and can also help notify a designer if the manufacturing and process-related an- placement of standard orthographic and value of a model expression ever strays notations. Because the PMI is created in auxiliary views, automatic view creation from within appropriate limits. These the 3D CAD model and directly associat- from the 3D model, hidden line process- validation checks can be created ed to objects in the part, the informa- ing and automatic parts list generation. on-the-fly or can be linked to external tion can be easily re-used by a number Templates that include drawing borders sources of design requirements, such of downstream processes, from the 2D and view layouts can be dragged and 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 development 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.

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 with a method to ensure that their prod- part validation that checks draft angles, answers to a series of commonly asked undercut areas, sharp angles and wall uct designs are optimized to best meet 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, including 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.

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. designs to reduce costs and shorten Contact design cycles, and to specify real-world Engineering process management Siemens PLM Software materials that will be used when their NX delivers a foundational product data Americas +1 314-264-8499 products are manufactured. Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 management system, powered by Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 Teamcenter® software, with NX MACH 1, 2 and 3 packages. It provides basic www.siemens.com/plm vaulting and file check-in/check-out that are seamlessly integrated with the © 2015 Siemens Product Lifecycle design tools. Engineering process Management Software Inc. Siemens management enables designers and and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, engineers to organize and protect all Femap, Fibersim, Geolus, GO PLM, product data (models, drawings and I-deas, JT, NX, Parasolid,Solid associated documents), as well as to Edge, Syncrofit, Teamcenter and minimize the time they spend searching Tecnomatix are trademarks or regis- for product data. It also helps design tered trademarks of Siemens Product teams coordinate the work of team Lifecycle Management Software Inc. members. or its subsidiaries in the United States Dynamic and photorealistic rendering tools and in other countries. Microsoft and enable designers to apply textures, colors Excel are registered trademarks of and lighting to visualize designs and create Microsoft Corporation. All other presentation-quality images. logos, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.

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