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Ask an Applied Engineer: July 2025

July 29, 2025

Welcome to the July edition of our Ask an Applied Engineer series! Each month, our engineers answer your most pressing questions. Whether you have a technical question about Siemens software, a licensing question, or are just looking for industry advice, we’re here to help.   

 Submit your questions here and get a response from an Applied CAx engineer.   

This month, we’re answering questions about NX and AI in Teamcenter.   

 

Question #1 

Q: In NX, how can I constrain an existing component in an assembly so that its absolute CSYS aligns with the absolute CSYS of the top-level assembly, similar to the “Ground and Root” function in Autodesk Inventor?  

 

A: Set the assembly as the work part. Choose “Add Component,” then set the Component Anchor to Absolute and the Assembly Location to Absolute – Work Part. This will place the component at the absolute position. 

Answered by Jeremy Shooks, Design & Manufacturing Application Engineer at Applied CAx 

 

Question #2 

Q: What are some ways to integrate AI with Siemens Teamcenter RAC and AW? 

 

A: Siemens Teamcenter already has some AI-related features, and more are coming. Whether it’s Teamcenter Assistant, which is available today, helping guide users to relevant commands and data based on the context and history with which you are working, or agentic actions that are soon to be deployed for simple workflows, there is a lot of exciting capability available.  

Beyond that, I’m particularly intrigued by the capabilities we have with the Mendix low-code software development platform. Here, we can build software applications very quickly and integrate them tightly within Teamcenter, adding AI features very easily.  

So, for example, if I want to build a software product that pulls on Teamcenter data and includes an LLM as a part of the feature set, I can easily do that. That LLM might help query the data in Teamcenter and suggest particular parts or drawings that meet my criteria, or it might help recompile data into a novel format and present it for downstream users, simply by prompting it to do so. 

We will see more and more AI infusion into powerful tools like Teamcenter over the years ahead, I am sure of that. 

Answered by Dale Goulding, Executive Director, Aerospace & Defense at Applied CAx 

 

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