NX Routing: Powering the Future of Complex System Design
At the heart of comprehensive digital twin technology, NX Routing delivers a complete, intelligent solution for creating, editing, and managing complex routed systems. Whether you’re designing electrical harnesses, mechanical piping, or HVAC systems, NX Routing streamlines your workflow with powerful automation and industry-leading capabilities, all while maintaining the highest standards of design integrity.
- Transform Your Design Process
NX Routing revolutionizes system design with features that dramatically enhance productivity and ensure first-time quality. Built on a common framework that reduces deployment costs and training time, our solution enables unprecedented efficiency across all disciplines.
- Intelligent Automation
Experience unprecedented efficiency with automated part selection and placement. Our system intelligently handles ancillary parts, ensuring complete assemblies while reducing manual effort. Create paths with stock, bends, and elbows simultaneously, all while maintaining perfect fit through automatic snapping and constraining to parts.
- The system's intelligent part placement capabilities include:
- Automatic valve sizing based on pipe specifications
- Automated flange selection and placement
- Smart elbow placement during path creation
- Configurable ancillary part placement rules
- Drag-and-drop library functionality with assisted search
- Cross-Discipline Integration
- Our Capital integration provides:
- Real-time multi-discipline collaboration
- Direct exchange and update capabilities
- Live cross-probing between logical and harness designs
- Support for full range of Capital abstractions inside NX
- Embedded Capital Enterprise Reporter integration
- Flexible Design Management
Leverage our powerful library management system to find the right parts instantly. The Routing Part Library provides intelligent search capabilities and specification-based filtering, making component selection effortless. Our deformable routing assemblies allow you to reuse designs across different contexts without creating new part files, significantly reducing design time.
- Maximum Control
- Minimum Complexity
- Cross-Discipline Integration
Leverage our powerful library management system to find the right parts instantly. The Routing Part Library provides intelligent search capabilities and specification-based filtering, making component selection effortless. Our deformable routing assemblies allow you to reuse designs across different contexts without creating new part files, significantly reducing design time.
- Validation features include:
- Runtime checking for immediate issue detection
- Pre-release validation capabilities
- Compatibility verification for part connections
- Path and stock bending restrictions
- Length limitation checks
- Customizable rules via NX/Open API
- Visual reporting support
- Discipline-Specific Excellence
- Mechanical Systems
- Create complex piping and tubing systems with automated corner bending and elbow placement
- Manage logical functional P&ID data through Run Navigator
- Utilize bulk replacement features for quick system resizing
- Stock-specific corner bending radii options
- Configurable bend tables with standard radii
- Library-managed end form templates
- Automatic parametric sizing for stock ends
- Electrical Systems
- Design fully featured wiring harnesses with advanced spline creation
- Automatic calculation of lengths, diameters, and weights
- Create associative formboard drawings for fabrication
- Manage multiple harnesses within common clamps
- Curvature control and slack management
- Automatic offsets for saddle style clamps
- Cableway layouts with fill controls
- Bi-directional ECAD system integration
- HVAC Design
- Leverage Product Template Studio for custom sizing
- Implement advanced features like stock transitions and duct reinforcement
- Design split ducts with automatic size and shape transitions
- Specialized functions including:
- Inside and outside duct reinforcement
- Windcatcher additions for branch ducts
- Complex shape and size transitions
- Customizable duct sectioning
- Customization & Integration
- Configuration Capabilities
- Qualify Part tool for consistent part and stock cross-section preparation
- Standard NX Customer Defaults integration
- Routing-specific configuration files
- Callback points for post-function execution
- Plugin points for replacing standard methods
- Complete NX/Open API coverage
- Complementary Applications
- Integrate seamlessly with other Siemens solutions:
- Simcenter Flexible Pipe for NX
- Virtual validation before physical builds
- Mounting scenario simulation
- Collision detection with motion and vibration analysis
- Optimization of flexible lengths
- NX Piping Fabrication Drawings & PMI
- Detailed documentation generation
- Manufacturing information integration
- Comprehensive drawing capabilities
- The Bottom Line
NX Routing isn’t just a design tool – it’s a complete solution for modern system design challenges. With enhanced productivity features, powerful validation capabilities, and seamless integration options, it delivers the tools you need to create complex routed systems efficiently and accurately.
- Key Benefits Summary
- Reduced deployment and maintenance costs
- Minimized training requirements
- Improved design efficiency and productivity
- Enhanced staff flexibility
- First-time quality through automated validation
- Seamless integration with enterprise systems
- Comprehensive customization capabilities
Ready to transform your design process? Contact us to learn how NX Routing can power your next innovation and help you stay ahead in today’s competitive market.
- Discover NX Routing Harness: Empowering Next-Generation Harness Design
At Siemens, innovation meets practicality with NX Routing Harness—a comprehensive, intelligent system designed to simplify and accelerate the development of complex routed systems. Harnessing Siemens’ Digital Twin philosophy, NX Routing provides unmatched capabilities for designing, editing, and managing wiring harnesses in a fully integrated 3D environment.
- Meeting the Challenges of Increasing Complexity
Modern products are rapidly evolving, with electrical and electronic systems forming the backbone of innovation. According to industry leaders, 80% of product differentiation now lies in electrical and electronic systems. However, this complexity also introduces risks in design, verification, and compliance validation. NX Routing Harness addresses these challenges with precision, ensuring high-quality designs that meet today’s demands.
- Why NX Routing Harness?
NX Routing Harness combines ease of use with cutting-edge functionality, offering a complete solution for industries looking to innovate faster while maintaining accuracy. Its features include:
- Accelerated Design: Manage wiring harnesses with tools that support ECAD/MCAD integration, logical and topology data exchange, and advanced 3D placement capabilities.
- Streamlined Validation: Conduct real-time and on-demand design rule checks to catch issues early and ensure compliance with design criteria.
- Efficient Part Placement: Simplify workflows with drag-and-drop libraries, automated attribute reading, and snapping mechanisms for rapid part placement.
- Advanced Capabilities That Drive Results
NX Routing offers robust tools for creating and editing paths, ensuring accurate control of length, shape, and slack. The system avoids sharp bends by constraining curvature, delivering smooth, kink-free designs.
With seamless interoperability between NX and Capital, teams can collaborate in real time across electrical and mechanical disciplines. This integration enables direct exchange of data, including harness topology, wire lengths, and 3D mechanical descriptions, ensuring manufacturable harnesses.
Leverage existing designs to save time and costs. Reuse routing hose and cable assemblies across different projects while maintaining flexibility to reshape paths as needed, all without creating new part files.
NX Routing is fully adaptable to your specific requirements. From simple customer defaults to advanced NX/Open API coverage, you can configure and customize the system to align with unique operational needs.
- Driving Collaboration and Productivity Across Teams
NX Routing Harness is built on a common core of routing functionality that supports multiple disciplines. This shared framework reduces deployment costs, training time, and maintenance efforts while improving staffing flexibility and productivity.
- Integrated Design Rule Checking:
The system facilitates error-free designs by supporting runtime checks during design creation and on-demand validation before release. It ensures compliance with bending, length restrictions, and compatibility rules, with the ability to extend or modify these rules through customization.
- Seamless Interoperability with Siemens Ecosystem:
NX Routing works seamlessly with Teamcenter and other Siemens solutions, synchronizing changes to BOMs and JT visualization. Integration with Simcenter Flexible Pipe further enhances design validation by simulating real-world scenarios to test durability, curvature, torsion, and collision impacts.
- Benefits at a Glance:
- A single platform for designing complex harnesses.
- Robust integration with ECAD/MCAD systems, including Capital.
- Customizable tools to suit varied industry needs.
- Streamlined workflows to save time and reduce costs.
- Transform Your Harness Design Today
NX Routing Harness is the ultimate solution for organizations seeking to simplify complex harness designs while achieving unparalleled accuracy and efficiency. Whether it’s in automotive, aerospace, or industrial machinery, NX Routing helps you stay ahead of the curve in an increasingly electrified world.