NX CAD

Bringing High Definition PLM to product development, NX 7 redefines productivity with a powerful suite of integrated CAD, CAE and CAM solutions.

NX 7 takes full advantage of the High Definition PLM Technology Framework to improve decision-making throughout the product development process.

Design Productivity

NX redefines CAD productivity with unique High Definition 3D technology and powerful new design tools that boost your efficiency, accelerate the design process, lower costs, and improve decision-making while enhancing the 3D aspects of the High Definition PLM framework.

CAE Productivity

NX redefines CAE productivity by integrating leading geometry tools with powerful new analysis technology for modeling, simulation, automation and test correlation. Synchronize simulation with design, perform faster design-analysis iterations, and make better engineering decisions to deliver better products faster.

Manufacturing Productivity

NX redefines part manufacturing productivity with two new applications that put you in the context of a specific programming task: NX Turbomachinery Milling, for programming complex blisks and impellers, and NX CMM Inspection Programming, which works automatically from PMI model data.

HD PLM

Make Better Decisions Faster with High Definition PLM

To help transform your decision making process, High Definition PLM (HD-PLM) is based on four basic tenets:

• Personalize your experience, by actively presenting the information you need based on your role and the context of your current task.
• Assist you proactively in making collaborative decisions, by aggregating, analyzing and monitoring information, notifying you when action is required and involving collaborators.
• Clarify your understanding, by presenting rich information intuitively and allowing you to drill down to associated information from different disciplines and sources.
• Validate your decisions against best practices, by applying analytical techniques to assess alternatives and capturing decision-making best practices for future reference.

CAD Productivity

Faster Modeling

NX 7 gives you the power, flexibility, and exclusive technology to boost your design speed and productivity. With extensive improvements to synchronous technology, you can create and modify designs − even freeform shapes − faster than ever before, and work with data from other CAD systems with unprecedented ease and efficiency.

Bring Your 2D and 3D Design Work Together in One Environment

You can take advantage of new 2D design tools that are fully integrated with NX 3D modeling and drafting capabilities. NX DraftingPlus brings together all of your 2D and 3D design efforts in one platform and one user interface. The advanced tools in NX DraftingPlus can be used either to document 3D models or for 2D design, so you don’t need a separate 2D system with NX.

Integrated CAE

Accelerate your analysis processes by up to ten times with NX. NX redefines CAE productivity by integrating leading geometry tools with powerful new analysis technology for modeling, simulation, automation and test correlation. Synchronizing simulation with design enables users to keep pace with design-analysis iterations, make better engineering decisions and deliver better products faster.

Integrated Design and CAE

By integrating high-end analyst modeling tools with world-class geometry capabilities, NX assists you with developing analysis models faster than with traditional CAE pre-processors. NX 7 further improves productivity through the introduction of new workflows for working with complex geometry, meshing thin-walled parts, beam and bolt modeling and more. Tight integration with geometry means your engineers can now keep pace with the latest design.

Integrated Multi-Physics Solutions

NX speeds multi-physics workflows by integrating the broadest set of solver technologies all within a single environment. Access to multiple CAE solutions within one system and one user interface eliminates data transfer errors for faster coupled analyses. NX 7 expands its integrated multi-physics solutions to include durability and motion analysis with flexible bodies along with even more solutions for structural, thermal and flow analyses.

Integrated Analysis/Test Correlation

NX 7 launches two new products to enable rapid model correlation and update. Correlating digital models with measured test data enables engineers to gain confidence in a model’s ability to predict performance. While testing may still be required it can be significantly reduced. Even saving a single test has been shown to save weeks and months of development effort and thousands of dollars in budget.

Manufacturing Productivity

NX Turbomachinery Milling

Accelerate the NC programming process for complex 5-axis multi-bladed rotational parts. This application for blisk and impeller machining offers a set of automated, context-specific functions that simplifies the generation of smart tool paths for these types of parts.

Built into NX CAM, this application provides simulation that helps you validate programming decisions, tool path optimization, and a wide range of supporting functions−all in one system.

NX CMM Inspection Programming

Maximize the efficiency of offline CMM programming by working in the context of a 3D solid model environment that includes the machine and the part. Driven by automation, inspection features and probing paths are generated directly from the intuitively presented Product and Manufacturing (PMI) model data. Produce inspection output including the DMIS standard and machine-specific formats.

Built into NX, this application is complete with simulation and collision avoidance to help you validate CMM programming decisions.