NX

NX Mach Series Add-on Modules

Extending product development features and capability of NX Mach Series Solutions

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Summary
The NX® Mach Series software offers preconfigured solutions targeted to specific product development disciplines and problems.
Siemens also offers many add-on software applications to enhance the functionality of the preconfigured solutions. The add-ons can be
integrated with the NX Mach Series solutions to extend their features and capabilities. The NX Mach Series optional add-on modules
enable customers to configure their solutions to specific requirements with specialized design tools, standard parts applications, design-
integrated simulation solutions, programming and customization toolkits and direct translators.

Sheet metal design

NX Advanced Sheet Metal Design. NX Advanced Sheet Metal
Design includes features and bending operations for straight
brake parts, as well as tools for designers who model complex
parts. Manufacturers of machinery, chassis, brackets, hangers
and equipment will benefit most from the straight-brake
feature modeling commands, which include flanges, bends,
holes, slots, cutouts, beads, punches, corners, relief and multi-
NX advanced sheet metal design includes
bend brackets. Advanced sheet metal design tools assist in powerful forming and flattening tools for
modeling and flat pattern development of complex, doubly complex shapes.
curved parts typical of automotive, aerospace and consumer
products. The advanced tools include general flanges, bridges, strain and metaform.
“Part in process” functions enable customers to fold and unfold parts and determine how features
across bends deform with the underlying flanges. Flat pattern development for planar and cylindrical
faces is included.

Human modeling
NX Human Modeling. NX Human Modeling allows designers to create feature models of human
beings and is based on technology provided by Tecnomatix Jack software. These human models can
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then be used to explore and verify how people interact with product designs. NX Human Modeling
allows users to create human models dynamically or based on standard anthropometric databases or
even using company-specific templates that can be created and then shared between any of the Jack-
based human modeling products.
NX uses segmented faceted bodies in the construction of human models where each faceted body
corresponds to a human body part. Once a human model has been created it can be edited with
standard NX part feature editing techniques.
NX Human Modeling and Human
Modeling Posture Prediction enable
use of biometrically accurate models
to determine how people interact with
product designs.
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NX General Packaging assists
designers with mechanical and
occupany packaging of vehicles.
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NX Human Modeling Posture Prediction. NX Human Modeling Posture Prediction allows users to position
a model of a human driver, front passenger or rear passenger in a seated position inside an automotive
vehicle. Users specify the position of the hands and feet in a specific location, such as the driver’s hands
and feet touching the steering wheel and brake pedal.
This model predicts an occupant’s hip location, eye locations and arm and leg positions based on the
type of vehicle and the occupant’s hand and foot locations. Both class-A (cars) and class-B (trucks)
vehicles are supported.
Automotive design
NX VDA Checker. This module checks the quality of curves and surfaces according to the criteria
described in the CAD/CAM Data Quality VDA 4955 standard provided by the Working Group VDA-
AK CAD/CAM.
NX Body Design. NX Body Design is a fully integrated set of
software assistants and advisors tailored to the specialized role of
Body in White (BiW) design. It provides designers and engineers
with processes based on automotive industry best practices that
allow quick and simple creation and validation of BiW parts within
a managed environment. The wide range of assistants and advisors
include B-Pillar Assistant, Hinge Location Assistant, Glass Drop
Assistant, Stone Impingement Assistant and Body Sectional
Formability Advisor.
NX Body Design includes design
NX General Packaging. NX General Packaging is a fully integrated
assistants for B-pillars, glass drop, hinge
set of software assistants and advisors that automate a wide range location and other body-in-white
of tasks associated with the mechanical and occupant packaging of design tasks.
a vehicle. Its integrated out-of-the-box capabilities facilitate
processes that accelerate packaging design and help ensure compliance with Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE) standards and local country regulations. The wide range of assistants include 2D
Manikin Assistant, Seat Lines Assistant, Eyellipse Assistant, Instrument Panel Visibility Assistant,
Windshield Vision Zones Assistant, Mirror Certification Assistant, Direct Field Of View Assistant,
Reflection Data Assistant, Engine Roll Assistant and Tire Envelope Assistant.
Composite Fabric Flattener
NX Composite Fabric Flattener. The NX Composite Fabric Flattener creates flat patterns for woven or
unidirectional fabric materials. It can be used to flatten composite laminate plies, or any materials that
conform to the theoretical models for woven or unidirectional fabrics. The package includes two
solvers that can process multiple surfaces, cut curves, arbitrary or infinite stock (the raw material from
which the final surface is created) and additional curves and points.
Data quality assurance
NX Check-Mate Author. NX Check-Mate Author converts knowledge of industry-specific, corporate or
customer standards into checks that are incorporated within the product validation process, allowing
customers to create their own company-specific checks. With these checks, quality requirements are
clearly defined and documented, resulting in unambiguous communication and fewer interpretation
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NX Tolerance Stackup Validation
performs tolerance stackup analysis
directly in the design session.
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errors throughout product development. NX Check-Mate’s
automated validation eliminates error-prone processes that
require designers to remember standards, requirements
and validation procedures. Since design validation can be
performed quickly, designers are able to discover problems
earlier in product development and change them where
cost is more manageable. The results from Check-Mate can
be used to identify training needs, to evaluate suppliers’
performance or to recognize product improvement
opportunities. Check-Mate’s reporting tools allow NX Check-Mate Author includes tools for
customers to document and analyze the information creating knowledge-based rules and profiles for
necessary for assessing progress of quality initiatives. checking data quality.
Tolerance Stackup Validation
NX Tolerance Stackup Validation. NX Tolerance Stackup Validation is a simplified tool targeted at
designers who need to perform a quick maximum/minimum tolerance stackup analysis directly in the
CAD design session. Tolerance Stackup Validation directly uses GD&T information applied in NX 3D
models and sets them to their maximum and minimum values to perform a simulated worst-case
analysis. This analysis estimates overall variation, identifies contributors to variation and provides first-
level validation of specified dimensional tolerances. With this validation companies can improve quality
by identifying potential build problems early in the design process, and improve productivity with an
automated alternative to manual tolerance stackup calculations.
Standard parts
NX FAST 2000 Professional 50 and 100. The NX Fast 2000 Professional products provide selections of
parts (50 or 100) from any of the standard parts supplied by Falko Standard, a Siemens Foundation
Partner company that develops and supports the products. Tightly integrated with NX, the standard
parts are defined in 3D NX format. Library Content is freely selectable part by part to meet the exact
needs of the customer, with library access provided through an intuitive graphical interface that
requires no specific training. The standard parts system provides the tools needed to add, modify or
delete standard parts from an assembly and to position them using an intelligent positioning tool.
NX View & Edit 2000 (NT). NX View & Edit 2000 works with NX FAST 2000 Professional. providing a
customization toolkit for creating and maintaining custom part libraries. It allows customers to enhance
part libraries with customer-specific information such as part numbers and preferred parts lists and to
create new libraries of standard parts.
BCT 3D Pool Portal. BCT, a Siemens Foundation Partner, develops standard parts and features
applications that are fully integrated with NX design tools. Companies who use industry-standard
components in their product development process can use BCT predefined parts to save time in the
design process. Standard parts and features are applicable to all of the major industries serviced by NX,
with particular value in the Industrial Machinery segment.
BCT 3D Pool Portal is the librarian application for standard part modules provided by BCT. This tool
provides the interface to BCT-provided parts as well as authoring capabilities that companies can use
to develop their own part libraries. The 3D Pool Portal license includes 50 families of parts selectable
from the BCT website at www.bct-portal.com.
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NX Scenario for Motion + includes
modeling, kinematic and dynamic
analysis and results evaluation that
help optimize performance of
moving parts.
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BCT PE-Designer. BCT PE Designer is the librarian application for standard feature modules. Similar in
function to the BCT 3D Pool Portal, PE Designer works with features rather than part files. The
license includes 50 families of features freely selectable from the BCT website at www.bct-portal.com.
BCT Machinery Solution. BCT Machinery Solution includes both the BCT 3D Pool Portal and BCT PE-
Designer parts and features library applications, and a selection of 50 families of features from the BCT
website at www.bct-portal.com.
Simulation
NX Strength Wizard. The Strength Wizard provides an easy-to-
use simulation wizard for fast and simple structural/thermal/
vibration analysis for non-experts in structural analysis. This
product brings a new set of simulation possibilities to all users of
the NX product design suite of engineering tools in five quick
and simple steps. This even includes the creation of web-based
reports. At every stage of the simulation process the user is
provided with clear and concise guidance. Based on the finite
NX Strength Wizard guides designers
element method of structural analysis, accuracy of solutions is a through the simulation process with a
prime consideration. Solutions are fully error checked and under step-by-step user interface.
control of the user. Meshing is automatic and completely
adaptive to even the most complex model geometry. Once
simulated, simulation confidence levels are graphically presented to users, as part of the wizard based
process, interactively and as part of the web-based project report. This type of virtual product
simulation provides a more cost effective, quick and simple compliment to more expensive physical
prototypes and time consuming product validation.
NX Scenario for Motion +. NX Scenario for Motion + is an integrated, associative and intuitive Motion
environment that has been developed to allow users to quickly predict and optimize the motion
characteristics of design alternatives, or “scenarios” as an intrinsic part of the design process. It provides
an environment to help designers and engineers understand, evaluate and optimize the complex motion
behavior of assemblies and models against functional performance design targets. By providing dynamic
and kinematic simulation model tools, access to the entire suite of NX modeling tools and advanced
simulation modeling tools users can vary model feature parameters and/or create/modify geometry, to
enable the rapid creation of numerous and associative simulation models for performance evaluation.
NX Scenario has been specifically designed to provide confident solutions to critical engineering
problems, quickly and at a time when it matters most – anytime during product development.
NX Scenario for Structures. NX Scenario for Structures + is an integrated, associative, intuitive finite
element modeling and post processing tool set that is designed to work within NX in conjunction with
the Nastran finite element solver. It has been specifically developed to allow users to quickly predict and
optimize the simulated engineering responses of various design alternatives, or “scenarios” as an intrinsic
part of the design process.
Also integrated into Scenario’s associative structural modeling and solution capability are automated
sizing and parametric shape optimization and fault-tolerant adaptive meshing technologies found in
Nastran. Using the embedded optimization engine, NX Scenario is able to automatically predict the
best geometric and mechanical parameters for a component or assembly based on engineering
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NX Die Engineering Wizard and
NX Die Structure Design are tailored
for die process specification and
design of die faces and structures for
stamped sheet metal components.
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performance simulation results. Optimization goals, engineering
constraints and model variables are defined by the user through
a simple process, while fault tolerant meshing provides a
quantitative degree of confidence.
Supported solution types include linear statics, normal modes,
linear buckling, steady state heat transfer, combined thermo-
structural and nonlinear statics (gaps/contacts) for assembly
simulation; temperature-dependent materials are also supported.
In many cases, engineers are not just focused on if a product will NX Scenario for Structures + includes
design-integrated simulation modeling, an
fail; integrated durability analysis enables design engineers to integrated solver and post-processing for
predict when it will fail. fast simulation turnaround.
Stamping die design
NX Die Engineering Wizard. NX Die Engineering Wizard provides a wide array of tools specifically
focused on die process specification and die face design. It guides users in modeling the shape
transformation of the sheet metal as it moves through the die press line and in designing die faces.
NX Die Engineering Wizard guides the engineer in defining the process used to manufacture a
particular sheet metal part. The application produces a representation of the press line and models the
shape of the sheet metal as it leaves each press. This “part in process” ability allows designers and
engineers to effectively evaluate the process at every step.
NX Die Structure Design. NX Die Structure Design provides specialized tools for modeling the die
structure. Its functions create blank dies, draw dies, trim dies, flange dies and associated transfer
equipment. This includes standard components such as pierce equipment, pressure systems and air
cylinders. Other major components have free form faces that reflect the shape of the product to be
manufactured. These components often are very difficult to model using conventional modeling tools.
Die Structure Design offers special functions to create these components, which are then represented
as full-fledged features.
Customization/automation
Knowledge Fusion Author. Knowledge Fusion Author is the complete rules-based modeling and
knowledge based engineering (KBE) development and programming kit. Knowledge Fusion is a fully
integrated tool that permits extension of NX by the end user. It is intended for knowledge engineers,
senior designers and programmers. It provides the ability to add any type of engineering rule to a
design, thereby creating smart models that are much more robust and useful, and ensured to be sound
from an engineering standpoint (such as for use in product configurators). Once a smart model or
program has been created, it can be accessed and manipulated (within the bounds of the author’s
intent) in any NX Mach Series application.
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NX Open for .NET takes advantage
of the Microsoft integrated
development environment by providing
access to object documentation
directly from the Visual Studio
Object Browser.
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NX Open User Interface Styler. NX Open User Interface (UI)
Styler is a visual user interface builder for interactively designing
portable NX-style dialogs. Used both internally by Siemens
developers and externally by users and third-party developers,
NX Open UI Styler provides the application module, dialog
builder, objects, libraries and documentation necessary to
interactively create production-ready dialogs. Using a point-and-
click interface, users can develop dialogs for Open applications
with a minimum amount of time and effort. No previous The NX User Interface Styler streamlines
experience with Windows, SDK or X/Motif is required. NX
Open UI Styler manages these complexities to create platform-
independent dialogs, with interactive object selection and macro support built in.
NX Open for .NET Author. NX offers an API for use with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Built on the
Common API, this interface provides programmatic access to NX core application functionality, making
it possible to create advanced automation programs using any of the .NET-compliant languages,
including Visual Basic .NET and C#. Because the API is built on the .NET framework, users can take full
advantage of all the benefits provided by that framework.
NX Open for .NET is completely integrated with the new Visual Studio .NET development
environment, which provides state-of-the-art browsing, editing, debugging, graphical layout of dialogs
(WinForms and WebForms) and a unified integrated development environment (IDE) for web, desktop
and mobile development needs. It supports rapid application development by offering streamlined,
object oriented class hierarchies. Offers full remoting support based on .NET remoting which is
compatible with COM based solutions. All API documentation is fully integrated into the Visual Studio
integrated developmentenvironment and is easily displayed in the Visual Studio Help format.
NX Open Automation Studio. NX Open Automation Studio includes all of the NX application
programming interfaces (APIs). It provides the libraries and documentation required to compile and
link Open C and/or C++ applications, and Open GRIP applications.
The NX APIs are direct programming interfaces that enable users to create custom applications using
the popular programming languages. They are used by NX Mach Series developers, customers and
alliance partners to produce unique applications to augment NX Mach Series or to act as completely
separate utilities. The Open C and Open C++ APIs provide a fully extensible data model, allowing
customers to define new types of objects that can be treated just like standard NX Mach Series
objects and stored persistently in NX Mach Series part files. Applications developed with the NX Open
Automation Studio can be run in any NX Mach Series solution.
Electromechanical integration
NX E/Pak. NX E/Pak is a two-way printed circuit board layout interface that connects most ECAD
printed circuit board systems to NX. The application is oriented for the electrical and mechanical
design sectors for the conversion of information between electronic board/component assemblies and
plastics/mechanical packaging. The end goal is to significantly improve the ease and quality of data
exchange by enabling concurrent design, catching errors early in the design process and decreasing the
time-to-market.
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As a two-way interface, NX E/Pak assists in the design of both electronic board/component assemblies
and mechanical packaging. Whether accepting new designs from or formatting designs for use within an
ECAD system, NX E/Pak assures continuity between the printed circuit board layout and the UG
assembly. NX E/Pak is developed and supported by Siemens Foundation Partner LTX Software.
NX Schematics. NX Schematics is an integrated 2D schematic layout package for NX. With the
package, users can quickly layout schematic designs, verify their function, add detailed part information
and drive downstream processes. With NX Schematics, users can create place and edit devices, define
the connections between them, modify the properties (attributes) of the devices and connections and
export the connection information and Bill of Materials (BOM) information to other downstream
design applications.
NX Schematics can be used as a standalone application to create the 2D logical design or it can be a
front end to 3D physical design providing a powerful design integration tool, as it permits information
to be passed between the 2D logical layout and the 3D model. Subsequent 3D designs can also be sent
back to NX Schematics for further iteration. NX Schematics can also automatically generate a
schematic based on logical data generated by Routing Electrical or other design tool. NX Schematics is
developed and supported by Siemens Foundation Partner LTX Software.
NX PCB Exchange. NX PCB Exchange provides direct data exchange between printed circuit board
(PCB) layout software and the NX modeling environment. It uses the industry standard IDF data
format to exchange the PC board and component geometry and placement. It can also use a
component database with specifications on thermal loads to build a thermal finite element model
compatible with I-deas® ESC and TMG Thermal Analysis. NX PCB Exchange is developed and
supported by Siemens Foundation Partner MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies Ltd.

Data translators
Theorem Catia Bi-Directional Translator for Catia V4. Theorem Solutions is a Siemens Foundation Partner
and strategic supplier of Catia data exchange products. The Theorem Translators support Catia V3/V4
native files. Current support allows for the exchange of geometry including solids, surfaces and
wireframe. Catia assembly structures are mapped to NX Mach Series assemblies.
This product provides bidirectional data exchange between NX Mach Series and Catia R4.x systems.
Solids, surfaces, assemblies and drafting information can be exchanged between the two systems.
A Catia V5 translator is available directly from Theorem Solutions.
Theorem Catia Viewer. This product is a companion product for the Theorem Catia translator products.
It can only be sold to customers with existing Theorem product licenses. There is no maintenance
associated with the product. The Viewer displays geometry only. Drafting information display is not
supported nor are there any future plans to add it. This product is not available for OSF or Alpha NT.
Theorem CADDS 4X/5X-to-NX Translator. The Theorem Solutions CADDS to NX translator currently
provides for the exchange of geometry (surfaces, solids and wireframe) and assembly information.
Drafting information will be supported in a later release. The translator contains a Viewer which allows
the user to review the native CADDS data prior to translation.
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Theorem NX-to-CADDS 4X/5X Translator. The Theorem Solutions NX to CADDS translator currently
provides for the exchange of geometry (surfaces, solids and wireframe) and assembly information.
Drafting information will be supported in a later release. The translator contains a Viewer which allows
the user to review the native CADDS data after translation.
Theorem CADDS 4X/5X Bi-Directional Translator. The Theorem Solutions bidirectional NX to CADDS
translator currently provides for the exchange of geometry (surfaces, solids and wireframe) and
assembly information. Drafting information will be supported in a later release. The translator contains
a Viewer which allows the user to review the native CADDS data prior to/after translation.
Theorem CV (Computervision) Migration-to-NX Translator. The Theorem Solutions CV Migration to NX
translator currently provides for the exchange of geometry (surfaces, solids and wireframe) and
assembly information. Drafting information will be supported in a later release. The translator contains
a Viewer which allows the user to review the native Computervision data prior to/after translation.
This product is available only to customers migrating their CV installations to NX Mach Series solutions.
Theorem CV (Computervision) Migration Bi-Directional Translator. The Theorem Solutions bidirectional NX
to CADDS translator currently provides for the two-way exchange of geometry (surfaces, solids and
wireframe) and assembly information. Drafting information will be supported in a later release. The
translator contains a Viewer which allows the user to review the native CADDS data prior to/after
translation.
This product is available only to customers migrating their CADDS installations to NX Mach Series.
NX Catia V4 Interface. The NX Catia V4 interface allows the reading and writing of Catia model and
export files solid and surface geometry. The user can access Catia V4 files from the File Open, File
Save As, File Import and File Export dialogs. This tool will flatten assemblies to a single level on both
import and export. Drawing and Wireframe data are not supported.
Note: This product is separate from the Theorem Catia Bi-Directional Translator product which runs externally
from NX Mach Series and does not replace that product.

NX Catia V5 Interface
The NX Catia V5 interface allows the reading of Catia V5 CATPart and CATProduct files. Accessible
from an external interface it is unidirectional Catia V5 to NX. This tool reads geometry, assembly
structure and attribute data of color, layer and name. The user canto access Catia V5 files from the
File Open, File Save As, File Import and File Export dialogs in NX. This translator does not replace the
Catia V4 interface and is not an upgrade for any of the currently available Catia V4 translators. The
translator is currently supported only on the Microsoft Windows platform.

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