Routed Systems Design

DesignNX provides tailored design environments for routed subsystems, both electrical and mechanical, that are far more productive than general-purpose tools.

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NX includes a fully integrated 3D electrical harness routing application that allows users to design and route harnesses in complex assemblies. Built upon the NX routing applications architecture, the electrical routing tools provide electrically smart features and functions to automate the design, modification and analysis of wire harnesses.This powerful capability imposes no limits on the number of components or wires in a design and includes a complete set of robust interfaces to electrical design technology providers. NX electrical routing enables integration with all electrical disciplines including system design, logical design, PCB design, physical design, electrical analysis, manufacturing, installation, service documentation and service delivery.

Mechanical routing adds design tools and libraries for tubing, piping, and steelwork. Routed systems models are fully associative to NX assemblies to facilitate design changes. Automated Bill of Material and bend reports provide information for subsystem manufacturing.

NX electrical routing integrates logical connectivity data, electrical wire information and component properties with physical harness geometry to capture the full definition of the electrical wire harness design. NX accepts logical connectivity data from a variety of sources, including schematic capture applications like NX Schematics, CIM-Team E3 Series and Mentor Graphics’ LCable and CHS tool suites.This flexibility allows the user to tailor NX electrical routing to the organization’s electrical design processes and tools.

NX electrical routing adds electrical content on the fly with a Connection and Component List wizard. The wizard supports interactive creation and editing of connection and/or component list records. From/to information, stock properties and part placement may all be specified from within the wizard.

NX supports creation of a logical design for mechanical routing.The application allows 2D diagramming of mechanical systems, such as piping and tubing designs. In addition, this toolset lets you drive and compare the 3D model with the 2D diagram, to ensure consistency and aid the creation of the design.

  • Run and spool creation and definition wizards assist in designing with manufacturing intent. Defining runs allows designers to permanently identify sections of piping and tubing assemblies.Through such identification, you can directly compare a 2D logical diagram to a 3D mechanical model. Users can create manufacturing instructions using run identifiers as references.After run identification and assignment, users can specify subsections called spools. NX automatically number the parts and stock that make up the spool to identify the items in manufacturing drawings or other product documentation.
  • NX mechanical routing now supports and can determine the direction of flow.When flow direction cannot be completely determined automatically, an interface allows the designer to assign flow direction. Flow direction arrows can be displayed temporarily or placed as permanent annotations.

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