Tooling
- Tooling in NX is a comprehensive module used to design, simulate, and manufacture tools and dies. It provides robust functionality to support various stages of tooling design, including mold design, die design, and progressive die design.
- Here are the key features of NX Tooling:
- It Integrates Mold Design, Electrode Design, Progressive Die Design, Stamping Die Design, and Fixture Design
- Helps tool shops handle their mold design and manufacturing challenges
- It makes it easy to handle design changes by automating every task involved.
- Provides a solid connection between functions to improve productivity, accuracy, and efficiency.
- It uses process simulation, advanced automation, and integrated technology.
- It eliminates the need for multiple systems and vendors.
- It makes it easier to manage and scale as the business grows.
NX Progressive Die Design
When planning the forming process, designers can define the pre-process, unfold the part, perform formability analysis (using NX One-step Formability Analysis), nest the flat pattern (blank layout), design the scrap, and determine the strip and tool layout. The NX Progressive Die Wizard offers the tools to construct progressive stamping dies. It maximises productivity through intelligent automation of industry-specific processes. NX Progressive Die Wizard guides the user through all the stages required to build a progressive die, streamlining complex processes and automating tedious tasks for time savings.
NX Mold Design
NX Mold Wizard uses Process Wizard technology to streamline the mold design process
It is significantly more efficient than traditional CAD software. By implementing expert best practices and automating mold-specific design tasks, NX Mold Wizard provides a structured workflow that includes standard libraries of mold components. This step-by-step process promotes the most efficient workflow, integrating complex design elements into automated sequences.
NX Electrode Design
NX Electrode Design streamlines the electrode design process by integrating mold design, electrode design, and machining. It automates design tasks that allow for quick design changes through associativity and guarantees the validity of the design. The application helps to reduce programming time and training costs. With less than ten user actions required, it reduces training efforts. The fully associative NX mold design applications reflect design changes to the electrode. It improves productivity with faster programming through various automation options, reducing the time spent on the process. The NX Electrode Design product provides various interconnected tools for electrode design.
- Benefits
- Formalise your design process
- Perform formability analysis of complex freeform parts
- Employ comprehensive and automated die structure, insert group and standard part design
- Facilitate fast and efficient design change propagation across the entire process (tool design through machining)
- Capture tooling design knowledge and reuse proven designs
- Virtually prototype your functional tooling operation
- Reduce tool design errors
- Collaborate with customers and suppliers
- Standardise the quotation process
- Eliminate conventional drawings and achieve paperless processes
- Decrease CNC programming time
- Centralise and control design information
- Tooling