Siemens Brings AI Copilot, Immersive Design to NX

Siemens Digital Industries Software reports the latest updates to its NX and NX X software from the Designcenter suite of product engineering software. New enhancements include immersive engineering for mixed realty design and collaboration, new design for manufacture capabilities, CAD-integrated fluid flow simulation and a new AI copilot for design.
 
“Our work to bring together our product engineering solutions under the Designcenter brand is moving at an incredible pace,” says Bob Haubrock, senior vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “The latest updates to NX reaffirm that our commitment to not only introducing new AI-driven copilot capabilities and Characteristics led MBD for downstream quality and manufacturing, but to also explore new areas for innovation in our long established and industry leading product engineering toolset.”

Design Copilot NX

Delivered with the latest update, the new Design Copilot NX leverages Siemens’ learning resources and provides an AI-based natural language interface to enable users to accelerate their learning. By leveraging natural language input and querying, the NX copilot capabilities allow users to get answers to technical queries, best practices and documentation.

Immersive Engineering 

Alongside the capabilities of NX Immersive Designer, which enable designers and engineers to create, view, and edit 3D CAD designs in virtual reality or augmented reality, recent updates introduce NX Immersive Collaborator—enabling users to collaborate in the same virtual reality space. 

Design for Manufacturing

Introduced in the latest updates, the new NX Inspector is a capability that adds model-based characteristics to a digital twin to extend the use of Model-based Design (MBD). Based on the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium’s Model-Based Characteristics standard, it enables designers to define manufacturing product manufacturing information that can be reused to drive creation of inspection and metrology processes based on real-time, management data through integration with Teamcenter and Teamcenter Quality.

The new Design for Manufacture (DFM) Advisor automates early manufacturability assessments by analyzing part geometry and identifying challenges across multiple manufacturing processes and providing actionable feedback directly in the interface. Visual reports can be generated and managed in Teamcenter to share with colleagues and partners.

Designer-Focused Simulation

Siemens is introducing NX CFD Designer software, a CAD integrated design simulation tool, powered by technology from Siemens’  Simcenter FLOEFD software. CFD Designer enables designers to access fluid flow and thermal capabilities directly within the NX CAD workspace to support simulation-driven decision making. 

It uses automation to tackle complex tasks like fluid volume detection and meshing on the designers’ behalf. It enables designers to a range of operating scenarios, what-if studies and geometry variations and compare the results. 

To learn more, watch the NX YouTube premiere or visit https://plm.sw.siemens.com/en-US/nx/cad-online/latest-nx-cad-version/

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.