NX Design Brochure - Siemens PLM Software - #4

NX provides an interactive environment that boosts designers' productivity and efficiency.A comfortable and intuitive software interface includes smooth color-shaded background, high-quality,

scalable icons and toolbars and information windows arranged to keep the focus on the design problem rather than the software.

The entire interface can be tailored to the preferences of the designer - from custom toolbars for frequently used functions to the layout of commands and navigation windows. Mouse travel and

menu picks for most design modeling operations have been cut

in half with context-sensitive, right-button command options

and an innovative radial pop-up menu that presents commonly

used commands onscreen with a brief mouse movement. In this environment, users can significantly reduce design times and

maintain productivity and comfort during extended work sessions.

NX delivers the most powerful and flexible solution in the industry,

providing a hybrid modeling environment that seamlessly combines

solid and surface modeling.All NX modeling tools are built on Siemens' Parasolid® geometry modeling kernel, the world's most

powerful, robust and widely used modeling foundation.

NX's hybrid modeling includes high-performance tools for feature-based parametric design, as well as traditional, explicit modeling and unique direct modeling that works with any geometric model. There are always multiple methods available for defining a product's geometric form.

Designers can use direct modeling tools in NX that are unavailable in other systems. NX direct modeling modifies design geometry

regardless of the source or the techniques used to create it -

whether it is native NX parametric, non-parametric or imported from other CAD systems. By working directly with any geometry, there is no need to rebuild or convert. With NX direct modeling

tools, designers can use parametric features without the limitations of a feature history.

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