Siemens' NX Delivers Cross-Discipline Collaboration

Siemens Digital Industries Software announces the latest release of Siemens’ NX software, a product engineering solution, brings greater electronic co-design, collaboration and intelligence capture and reuse capability, the company reports.

“This latest release brings enhancements to our users across the board, enabling them to work more intelligently between multidisciplinary teams, capture and reuse more knowledge and achieve that optimum design more efficiently than ever before," says Bob Haubrock, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens. "Alongside brand-new functionality, our significant investments to core technologies, such as sketch and convergent modeling, will further improve the toolsets that our community of users relies on every day.”

Part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services, NX delivers productivity and user-experience enhancements across a range of capabilities.

NX leverages Siemens’ expertise in the electronics/electrical engineering space with Siemens EDA (formerly Mentor Graphics). Image courtesy of Siemens.

NX extends its electronic design collaboration capabilities further with a workflow for rigid and rigid-flex printed circuit board designs. 

Users will notice a new codeless approach to Feature Templates that enables the reuse of the knowledge embedded into NX data during design. This extends data reuse from pure parametric geometry features to include PMI, requirements checks and more. 

The latest release of NX brings new tools to help develop the forms designers need, whether updates to curve creation and editing with parametric features or to NX Algorithmic Modeling, which better support convergent modeling workflows enabling more efficient ways to complex patterns and shapes.

NX Topology Optimizer now fully replaces and surpasses previous solution capabilities. Part optimization within the context of an assembly now considers design and manufacturing constraints and enables simultaneous optimization of multiple design spaces with independent materials. 

The NX Design Space Explorer for multi-objective optimization also now offers multi-run support to fine-tune ranges and refine searches and Simcenter HEEDS software run options are now fully integrated and cover baseline, random seed and normalization factors.

For additional information about the latest release of Siemens' NX, read the NX overview blog post. 

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