CAD design validation

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.

With the ability to accelerate the design exploration and optimization process by up to 90%, NX Performance Predictor enables NX designers to explore possible options faster than traditional tools and processes. NX Performance Predictor enables simulation driven design earlier in the design cycle. Designers can conduct simple simulation, freeing up simulation engineers for more complex simulations. The analysis you conduct is also linked with Simcenter 3D, meaning you can conduct in-depth simulation of your part for validation, ready for manufacturing.

NX Performance Predictor enables you to simulate parts you are creating in real-time, whilst also exploring different design and material choices. It enables designers to make the best decisions, whilst also enabling you to explore more concepts without prototypes and physical testing.

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.

Leverage a fast and easy motion analysis application for studying the kinematic behavior of designs with NX software. The easy-to-use motion application helps you create kinematic studies early in the design process, reducing the time it takes to create an accurate digital mockup so more time can be spent designing.

When you make products with moving parts you need to see them in action. You need to know kinematic properties such as displacements, velocities, accelerations and even collisions.

Quickly compare design alternatives and optimize performance characteristics from the earliest stages of the design process using design-integrated motion, structural and thermal simulation tools in NX.

Simulation is no longer just a performance validation tool—it is becoming an organic part of the development process throughout concept and design. Simulation is helping designers create better, more robust designs earlier in the development process, while also speeding the overall time it takes to release a plan—meaning faster time to market.

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.

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.