Consumer product industrial design with NX CAD software

• Sketching and 2D design: Start your industrial design process with a direct input of your hand-drawn sketches or create new CAD sketches with advanced sketching tools.
• Subdivision modeling: Create complex, organic shapes by manipulating a mesh of points for highly aesthetic surfaces such as within consumer products or automotive design.
• Surface modeling tools: Design flowing, smooth shapes typical of modern industrial designs by leveraging advanced surface creation and editing tools for curves, splines, lofts and sweeps that enable precise control over surfaces.
• Class-A surfacing: Create high-quality surfaces that are smooth and visually appealing for aesthetically-demanding designs.

• Hybrid modeling: Use a mix of parametric, history-based and direct, history-free modeling in the same CAD environment to quickly iterate on designs while maintaining control over geometric parameters.
• Synchronous Technology: Make fast and flexible design changes with Synchronous Technology in NX CAD. Speed up the design process as you quickly modify geometry without needing to redo sketches or parameters.

Import scanned data into NX CAD to work with existing products or hand-crafted prototypes. Once your data is CAD data, you can work with point clouds and meshes to refine designs.

Explore enhanced design collaboration by leveraging AI-enabled generative design tools in NX CAD. Review a range of possible design solutions proposed by NX CAD as algorithms based on specified criteria and constraints generate potential designs for new products or improvements of your existing product design.

• Human modeling: Simulate how products will interact with users with NX Human. Design for ergonomics and ensure products are comfortable, safe and intuitive to use.
• Design for manufacturability: Evaluate manufacturability early in the design process with NX Design for Manufacturability (DFM) Advisor and other NX CAD analysis tools. Assess material selection, production techniques and ease of assembly.
• Fit and function analysis: Ensure that your designs work both aesthetically and functionally with tools for interference detection, assembly analysis and real-time validation such as NX Animation Designer, NX Motion and more.
• Durability and performance simulation: Validate designs for structural integrity or performance to get insights before the prototyping phase with tools such as NX Performance Predictor.

Manage product aesthetics with NX CAD tools that hep in the definition and management of material, texture and color palettes. Ensure that your design is aesthetically consistent with the intended brand or product identity.

• Appearance management: Present design ideas to stakeholders with accurate visual representation. With NX Appearance Management, you can assign materials, textures and finishes to surfaces.
• Integrated rendering: See your designs in photorealistic form directly within your CAD software with NX Render. Visualize materials, colors and lighting conditions early in the design stages.

Experience and interact with your designs in a virtual environment with Immersive Engineering technology in NX CAD. Evaluate product aesthetics and ergonomics in a 3D space, see your designs to-scale and even edit and manipulate your designs in XR with NX Immersive Explorer and NX Immersive Designer. Plus, collaborate in the virtual environment and host concurrent design reviews with NX Immersive Collaborator.

• Teamcenter Integration for NX: Collaborate with other industrial designers, engineers, product managers and manufacturers across the product development lifecycle with Teamcenter, our product lifecycle management (PLM) solution that is integrated with NX CAD.
• Data management: Manage design iterations and revisions efficiently with built-in data management (available only in cloud SaaS NX X) to easily manage feedback and changes throughout the design process.

Prepare your industrial designs for 3D printing and rapid prototyping in NX CAD with NX Design for Additive Manufacturing. NX CAD also supports additive manufacturing designs with the NX Lattice Structures, NX Implicit Modeling and NX Topology Optimizer modules accessible via value-based licensing for NX.

• AI-driven design optimization: Explore innovative shapes and structures that may not be obvious through traditional design methods with AI-enabled generative design tools. Algorithms can automatically generate optimal design alternatives based on predefined constraints such as material, weight and manufacturing methods.
• Topology optimization: Receive suggestions for optimal geometry that reduces material usage while achieving the desired strength with NX Topology Optimizer, as this module can automatically analyze the forces, stresses and requirements of a components.

• Smart selection tools: Speed up routine tasks like selecting edges, surfaces or features for editing by leveraging smart selection tools in NX CAD. These AI-enabled tools can predict which elements of a model you are likely to want to modify based on past actions and context.
• Context-aware assistance and command prediction: NX CAD can provide context-based suggestions and recommendations while you design, such as prompting you with the next logical step or automatically filling in parameter values based on previous inputs.

• AI-based geometry recognition: Speed up reverse engineering and redesign processes and ensure compatibility with manufacturing systems. Import a model or assembly, and NX CAD can automatically recognize standard geometries, features and components.
• Machinable feature recognition: Automatically generate machining strategies and operations with NX CAD, as AI can recognize features such as holes, pockets and bosses that are machinable.

• Real-time feedback: Reduce the need for manual checks or post-design analysis as you receive real-time feedback on potential design flaws or improvements, such as suggestions for areas that may not meet stress or durability requirements.
• Automated design rule checking: Ensure designs meet industry-specific or company-specific requirements, reduce errors and improve compliance as AI in NX CAD can automatically check your designs against predefined rules and standards.

• Learning from past projects: Receive suggestions for design solutions, materials or processes that have been effective in similar past projects as NX CAD can analyze previous design projects and apply that knowledge to future ones.
• Automated feature reuse: Receive automatic suggestions for frequently used features or components in designs when appropriate. For example, if certain fillet sizes or hole patterns are commonly used, the software may propose them based on your design context.

Improve your product design's usability or aesthetic appeal with AI insights. NX CAD can simulate human interaction with products and predict how users will engage with a design.

Optimize mechanical systems for energy efficiency by leveraging advanced simulation and analysis tools in NX CAD such as NX Mechatronics Concept Designer, NX Performance Predictor and NX Design Space Explorer.