Designcenter NX CAD asset library

Learn the basics of the Siemens Xcelerator admin console, how to navigate Siemens Software Center, how to setup and manage your team in Designcenter X and all the steps needed to install Designcenter X software to your machine.

Explore the two different ways you can update your system to the latest version of Designcenter NX.

Learn how to create an assembly, add additional components, utilize the degree of freedom tool, add a standard part and create a copy of a component.

Learn how to load an assembly, use folders, open an assembly and leverage the assembly navigator.

Discover how to investigate the basic layout in Designcenter, sketch a shape, extrude a shape, add holes to a part and refine a product for marketing assets.

Learn how to create with Teamcenter inside of Designcenter. See how to assign new parts & drawings to existing projects, generate names & attributes for new files and understand relationships between drawings & item revisions.

Learn what Roles are and how they can impact your experience. Plus, see how to set up Content Roles to optimize the tools that are displayed to use and choose Presentation Roles that fit the technology you use to design.

Get started with managed mode by learning how to set up Customer Defaults that meet your design and workflow needs, optimize your Check-in/Check-Out policies and select User Settings that match your role and team.

Leverage Group Edge and Group Body commands to organize your feature inputs, reuse groups to explore new design changes and save time by using previously created groups for complex assemblies.

Discover how to upload data with Teamcenter Active Workspace. Learn how to assign proper IDs, Names and Revisions; use the Import Assembly tool and improve efficiency with Find and Replace.

Discover the basics of leveraging PMI tools for coatings: automatically adding PMI notes to a part with Logic Editor, customizing PMI rules through intuitive visual programming and including coating information on part drawings.

Discover how to manage Projects in Teamcenter, get real-time design updates in Live Share and perform formal design reviews with Immersive Collaboration.

Work with colleagues simultaneously using the Live Share functionality. Learn how to set up, manage and end a Live Share session.

Learn how to set up notifications in a session, select the parts to be notified on, rank notifications by importance and understand what the color-coded notifications mean.

Learn how to use the Select Similar Components and Select Similar Faces functions in Designcenter, plus see some best practices for optimizing your productivity.

Learn how to set up a test and select the variables for strong results, control and choose the material of the part to be tested, show a color gradient view of the part with displacement and stress values and more.

Experiment with forces to view your design performance. Learn how to apply loads and constraints, effectively view results with the color map display and publish analysis reports.

Learn how to start a new Performance Predictor analysis, set your analysis constraints, review your results and view an example with a comparison of steel vs aluminum performance.

Discover how to change displayed variables with Result Settings, use Measure Result to highlight values not initially shown on the test and save results as a GIF using the animation tool.

Learn the basics of the Select Similar Faces tool, see how remove or add shape regions and understand how to limit the search from similar regions to identical regions.

Discover the out-of-the-box predefined shape regions available in Designcenter and how to access them from the search region library. Then, see how to use the predefined region objects.

Learn how to define your own shape region objects and name faces in the predefined shape region library.

Explore Select Similar Faces as you learn how to run your shape region search on specific parts of your body, select shape regions in multiple parts of an assembly and review results at the part level.

Learn how to use Topology Optimization on several bodies, test for multiple design states and analyze results.

See how to set up your study, create a Topology Optimization study using added force and load, compare the stress and displacement tests and view results in a report.

Design together, discover new workflows and gain key design insights with Immersive Collaborator. Learn how to configure immersive preferences, create an Immersive Collaborator session and perform a design review.

Learn essential settings and preferences for getting started, techniques for basic movement and navigation and how to change materials and see changes in the immersive environment.

Learn how to achieve high-level 3D rendering and view new design changes in real time in the immersive environment. Plus, see how you can use Mechatronics Concept Designer in sync with immersive tools.

See how to use Animation Designer within Immersive Designer desktop mode and in mixed reality, plus learn how to add virtual monitors and use the intuitive ring controller in Immersive Designer.

Learn how to move around your virtual workspace and understand the scale of your models, use tools to inspect and manipulate designs, create section planes, add markups and save snapshots.

Explore how to set up and charge the Sony XR head-mounted display and XR Headset Connect app. Then, see how to adjust the headset, pair the controllers, set up the virtual workspace and connect the headset to your PC.

Analyze your data, identify potential manufacturing challenges and get actionable feedback on your designs. Learn how to use Test Command for customized testing, do final checks and utilize Milling Tests.

Explore how to automate PMI with model-based definition rules, define tolerances precisely using Feature Control Frames and keep annotations readable with smart orientation settings.

Understand what PMI is and learn how to make an existing PMI visible as well as use a rule-based query to find exact PMI.

Learn how to set up the Automated PMI advisor, map to an appropriate logical rules library and change an existing logical rule set.

See how to map a Feature Template library and customer defaults, create Feature Templates, configure your user interface, define your PMI orientation and place your Feature Template into another part.

Discover how to simplify a large project with Feature Templates, set up your user interface to improve your workflow, edit and change your created template and select a new table from expressions.

See how to manage quality characteristics for consumption in downstream processes with Designcenter Inspector. Plus, learn how to characterize your PMI into product characteristics and publish the characteristics to Teamcenter.

Learn how to set up the proper PCB Exchange preferences, open a new IDX file and view new layers and traces on your circuit board.

Discover how to create a mechanical concept in Mechatronics Concept Designer, create a Rigid Body and Collision Bodies as well as how to add motion through transport surfaces.

See how to identify corrosion risk across an assembly; customize the feedback and generate a corrosion risk report; address corrosion risk by changing assigned part materials and apply coatings to a part to mitigate risk.

Learn how to define your layup surface and composite region; define and select the laminate and create and apply your composite material. Then, see how to perform a producibility simulation and examine your results.

Discover how to distinguish layers with colors and line widths, run a design station analysis and fix invalid ply layers and reassign them.

See how to identify joins quickly through identification markings, edit multiple joins at once through Edit Point Join and use Join Note PMI annotations to clean up your display.

Learn how to use the Transform Join tool, the Analyze Connections tool and see how to verify a join with Checkmate Tests.

Learn about the BIM Reuse Library standard features and see how to drag and drop object placement as well as create a custom BIM reuse library.

See how to create and edit Grid and Elevation Lines, easily reference Grid and Elevation Lines when positioning structural elements and modify Grid and Line display properties.

Discover how to add levels to a part using the line tool, utilize dimensional constraints, resize the elevation box and sketch the foundations for the structure.

Learn how to create custom structures with multiple materials, add structures and material properties to a model and then see how to specify different rooms in a building and output room data to an excel file.