Beyond component design, NX provides the most powerful CAD assembly design tools available. Assembly modeling support collaborative, high level design approaches. NX supports both top-down and bottom-up product assembly design, providing advanced assembly management and navigation to keep the team organized and on track.
NX design solutions are developed to handle the world's most complex assembly designs, even those containing tens of thousands of components. NX has unrivaled capabilities for component simplification, enabling many thousands of components to be loaded and displayed in just seconds. Lightweight representations and enveloping techniques provide the ability to load as much of the product as is required to modify and evaluate parts properly. Designers can set the context of a particular task with filtering tools that select relevant components using criteria such as location and function. NX takes full advantage of Teamcenter to manage product configurations and variants.
Assembly arrangements in NX enable designers to create models that accurately represent components in alternate positions. For symmetrical assemblies NX provides mirroring tools that greatly reduce modeling time for opposite-hand components and subassemblies. Interference, clearance, and mass properties analysis tools in the assembly environment detect fit, weight, and center of gravity problems, assuring right-first time design and reducing reliance on physical mock-up and prototyping.
NX assembly management capabilities enable the easy management and manipulation of complex product relationships found in most products, including product configurations, options, and variants.
