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CAD design validation

Our products deliver visual product analytics and CAD validation tools that enable you to synthesize information quickly, check designs for compliance with requirements, and make informed decisions.

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Start designing today with a free trial of NX CAD, a leading product design solution. Learn how to develop high-quality products by using the high-performance design capabilities of NX. No installation is needed, so you can start designing in minutes.

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Design and requirements validation

Access the NX automated validation tools that continuously monitor standards and requirements. CAD validation tools are essential to ensure product quality, comply with standards, fulfill requirements, eliminate errors and warranty costs, and optimize designs for performance and manufacturability.

Automated design validation software

Make validation a continuous, proactive process rather than an afterthought by automating design checking with NX Check-Mate. It includes an extensive library of hundreds of standard checks in modeling, drafting, product and manufacturing information (PMI), geometry, routing, welding and other applications. Using the authoring tool, you can create custom checking functions. The design validation is continuous and automatic, and notifies you immediately when designs fail to comply with standards, best practices, or critical functional and engineering requirements.

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Integrated requirements validation

Support systems engineering with automated checking tools using NX Requirements Validation. Working with Teamcenter, you can allocate requirements to product subsystems and validate products for compliance with requirements as you design. NX Requirements Validation promotes a common understanding of targets and how well products achieve them.

An individual module weight analysis of a transmission assembly and validating the result to the set requirements.

Visually rich feedback

Use NX Check-Mate and Requirements Validation to deliver visually rich feedback that uses high-definition 3D (HD3D) technology. With HD3D tools, including flow lists, visual tags, tool tips and see-through display modes, you can identify design issues clearly and quickly resolve them.

Image shows the utilization of HD3D to rapidly identify and display certain functional parts/areas of a jet engine here focused on the fuel line.

Design for manufacturing

Significantly reduce engineering change orders (ECOs), manufacturing defects, costs and delays. DFMPro for NX gives you high-definition 3D tools that automate the design review process for manufacturability, helping you identify design issues that are difficult or expensive to manufacture.

HD3D reporting accelerates validation

Support a rapid, streamlined process for identifying, understanding and resolving manufacturability issues. DFMPro for NX is seamlessly integrated with NX CAD software and uses the proven NX Check-Mate validation framework to provide HD3D problem navigation, visual tagging and information drill-down.

HD3D tool in NXA used to validate the manufacturability of a plastic damper cover.

Manufacturability checks using best practices

Leverage DFMPro for NX to automate and formalize the design review process for manufacturability using best-practice knowledge. It accelerates the identification of problems and suggests corrective actions based on best-practice handbooks and a knowledge repository. By implementing common manufacturability checks with DFMPro for NX, you capture mistakes early in the design process and ensure that past mistakes are not repeated.

Image shows the result from the mold injection DFM Pro manufacturing checks in DFM Pro.

HD3D Visual Reporting

HD3D Visual Reporting enables you to comprehend and interpret PLM data with interactive navigation and delve into details. Viewing a 3D product model, you can answer questions about project status, design changes, team responsibilities, issues, problems, cost, suppliers and other attributes.

Innovative display and interaction techniques

Use HD3D Visual Reporting to format 3D part, component and assembly models to answer your inquiries, with color-coding, on-screen tagging and legends for fast visual assessment and interpretation. Multiple "see-through" settings give you various methods for removing the complexity of the model and instantly seeing the components of interest. You can access additional details by clicking on interactive tags, which can also open associated documents. You can output report data outside of NX sessions to other formats, including HTML and Excel.

HD3D tool in NX used to validate material of each component of an automotive transmission.

Visual analytics and validation

Answer commonly asked questions with HD3D Visual Reporting, which includes predefined visual reports. A report-building tool accelerates the creation of custom reports. The reports can consist of properties from NX files, custom metadata, Teamcenter attributes and other PLM data. Engineering teams can use the information to understand their designs better and locate issues, while managers can more readily determine the overall state of development projects. You can manage and distribute visual reports to benefit the entire enterprise.

HD3D tool in NX used to validate the parts of  the front landing gear of an airplane.
case study

Zipline

Drone delivery saves lives

Company:Zipline

Location:United States

Product:Autonomous drones

Size:Small

Siemens Software:NX