Siemens PLM Software launches next gen NX CAD/CAM

"Our new HD-PLM technology framework, delivers a visually intuitive environment in NX to enhance the decision making process throughout product development and create significant value for our customers and our industry," comments Joan Hirsch, vice president of product design solutions at Siemens PLM Software. "The value of this release is further magnified not only by the strength of its many enhancements, but also for the balanced level of new functionality added throughout the software's various product design, analysis and part manufacturing modules, which can produce end user productivity gains of as much as 80%," she adds. Hirsch makes the point that, with the launch of its high definition 3D environment last year, and now enhanced, Siemens PLM Software "begins to execute on its vision to instil HD-PLM technology into all of its enterprise solutions". HD3D, she says, unites the powers of NX and Teamcenter [Siemens PLM offering] under its HD-PLM technology "to visually and intuitively deliver the information necessary to understand, collaborate, and make decisions in a globally distributed product development environment". Meanwhile, Hirsch also focuses on NX 7's new features and enhancements – such as streamlined sketch creation, extension of synchronous technology to transform freeform modelling and new DraftingPlus tools – which, she says, "redefine product development productivity". Looking at the modelling enhancements, the integration of synchronous technology with NX freeform modelling is the big deal, because it significantly improves the advanced shaping process by making it easy to work with any geometry, including imported models. Users can start with simple prismatic or analytic geometry and use advanced shaping tools to form complex organic models in significantly less time.