NX Open, the common foundation for automation and programming in NX, can be used to create and automate customized CAE processes to increase productivity.
Advantages include capturing and sharing tribal knowledge; speeding up or eliminating common or repetitive tasks; standardizing processes and workflows for engineering and manufacturing; ensuring compliance with customer requirements & standards; and freeing up resources to focus on innovation & revenue generation rather than repetition.
Examples of automation possibilities for your company:
- Custom applications and routines
- Repetitive processes
- Journals to quickly access reusable functions
- Access NX objects from custom external tools
- Custom GUI’s to suit your company’s needs
- Integrate NX with third party applications
- CAM process automation
- Design automation
- Drawings creation automation
- Feature Based Machining (FBM)
- Checkmate quality assurance
- Quickly incorporate analysis data (CMM, FEA) to improve designs
- Migrating GRIP custom script routines to .NET (C#, VBasic), Java, C++ or Python
- NX data analysis (pull data from part file, such as normal vector data and look for discrepancies)
- Utilize C# to link NX with Excel and other Microsoft suite applications
- Create custom shop docs & tool sheets
- Create and edit geometry
- Assembly creation
- Part creation
- Import/export data
- Automate repetitive processes:
- Quoting
- Document generation
- Updating parametric parts
- Color faces by
- Hole size
- Face type
- Hole depth
- Any face dimensions
- Identify custom features
- Create custom features to be recognized by NX
- Standards consulting, guidance and creation to ensure a robust and scalable automation solution
- Checkmate enforcement standards tool for automating quality control
- Ensure your parts follow company standards
- Use best practices
- Meet modeling quality standards
- Standard checks pre-installed with NX
- Custom checks available through automation