NX Mach 3 XaaS

The NX Mach software products are prepackaged solutions that deliver the computer-aided design (CAD) capabilities of NX software, a leading solution for mechanical design.

What's included in NX Mach 3?

The NX Mach 3 bundle offers a value-add over the other bundles because it provides a higher level of electro-mechanical integration with the flexible printed circuit board (PCB) design capability.

NX Mach 3 for product development offers a prepackaged solution that includes all of the tools provided in NX Mach 2 and NX Mach 1 CAD. It also offers advanced product design capabilities, including:

• Numerous data exchange tools for working with and sharing multi-CAD data with NX
• Parametric, feature-based 2D and 3D wireframe construction, including dimensional, constraint-based sketching
• Parametric, feature-based solid/surface modeling for constructing intelligent, robust and adaptable designs
• Synchronous modeling for making fast changes to parametric or imported data
• Freeform construction of lofted, swept or curve network-based shapes
• Support for explicit, history-free modeling, as needed
• User-definable, reusable feature templates
• Top-down and bottom-up assembly modeling and design in the assembly context
• 2D drawing-based and 3D model-based product and manufacturing information (PMI)
• Design time validation checking
• Executable automation programs developed from a variety of languages

The NX Mach 3 bundle also offers a variety of additional core and advanced design capabilities, including:

• Advanced assembly modeling
• Specific tools for the design of flexible PCBs
• Baseline design of routed systems and straight break sheet metal
• Goal-based design optimization
• Advanced freeform surface construction, including high-quality, class-A surfacing
• Complete reverse engineering tools to create shapes from point-and-scan stereolithography (STL) data
• Comprehensive geometric and aesthetic shape analysis tools—including advanced molded part validation—use of HD3D Visual Reporting
• Advanced design visualization using dynamic preview and real-time ray-traced rendering of materials, lighting and scenes

The bundle includes everything needed to integrate with Teamcenter software to provide optional extended engineering process management tools through scalable collaboration and advanced management.

About the NX Mach series

The NX Mach packages offer competitively priced solutions in performance tiers that are tailored to specific product development roles, practices and processes. All of the NX Mach design solutions share a common denominator of high-performance CAD functions and powerful high-definition 3D (HD3D) Visual Reporting, enabling designers and engineers to understand key elements of their designs quickly.

You can extend and enhance the functionality of the Mach Series with add-on modules. These add-ons enable you to configure your solutions to specific requirements with specialized design tools, standard parts applications, design-integrated simulation solutions, programming and customization toolkits and direct translators.

Key features

Design modeling: Feature-based solid modeling, synchronous technology, core Convergent Modeling, drafting, assemblies, advanced assembly modeling, basic freeform modeling, user-defined features

Process-specific modeling tools: Sheet metal design, PMI, flexible PCB, basic routing

Industrial design: Photorealistic rendering, visualize shape, freeform shape, advanced surface analysis

Product validation: Product validation, HD3D Visual Reporting out-of-the-box (OOTB) report, HD3D Visual Reporting custom report editing, optimization and sensitivity study tools, molded part validation