Designcenter NX Tooling eBook

This 16-page eBook explains how Designcenter NX supports tool design and manufacture: injection moulds, progressive and transfer dies, automotive stamping dies, and jigs and fixtures. Its central theme is linking tooling designs to the product model so that design changes carry through to the tool and its NC programs. The 2022 document refers to the software as NX.

What the document covers

• The NX Mold Wizard workflow: moldability checks, parting surfaces, automatic core and cavity creation, mould base and standard part catalogues, ejectors, sliders, lifters, cooling layouts, BOM and drawings
• Molded part validation, including wall thickness, draft angle, undercut and plastic feature checks
• NX Progressive Die Wizard: sheet metal feature recognition, unfolding, blank nesting, scrap and strip layout, force centre calculation, die base and insert design
• Jig and fixture design with full associativity, kinematic checks and display of multiple arrangements such as open and closed positions
• Automotive stamping dies, from die operation line-up and die face development to press line simulation with Tecnomatix
• NX Machining for moulds and dies (high-speed machining, feature-based hole making) and the NX Managed Development Environment built on Teamcenter

Who it is for

Mould and die designers, toolmakers, NC programmers and toolroom managers, especially in automotive and plastics. The eBook also includes customer examples.