NX Design Brochure - Siemens PLM Software - #6

With a proven capability for designing massive assemblies in automotive, aerospace, machinery and other industries, NX rightly deserves its reputation for the best assembly design tools available. Extending the technological limits for designing products with tens of thousands of components, NX has the modeling performance

and assembly management tools that have made complex assembly design a practical reality.

NX supports collaborative, top-down engineering and system-level design techniques that structure complex assembly design projects into physically and functionally self-contained subsystems or modules.These subsystems have well-defined interfaces that allow them to "plug and play" with a variety of other subsystems. System-based modeling offers unprecedented control for developing

complex products, enabling you to manage product complexity,

capture high-level product criteria, quickly evaluate design alternatives and maximize re-use of subsystem designs.

Unique WAVE technology in NX uses high-level structured and parametric product layouts, which can be simply driven and controlled by key engineering criteria.These criteria are used to control the position and geometry of the product assembly model and its components. More than associative interpart modeling in conventional CAD systems,WAVE provides a product definition

template that captures the system-level design parameters and establishes interfaces between systems. Changes in configuration

are simply and easily managed with a host of tools to ensure that every step is clear and obvious. At the component level, it ensures

that interacting parts continue to fit and function together properly.

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