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Easy Open Scalable CADWorx PLANT DESIGN SUITE ® cadlabsreview Figure 3. NX 5 Active Mockup supports true design in context, even for massive, multi-CAD assembly models. It improves large assembly performance and unites the review and redesign processes. This image depicts a dynamic cross-section of a tractor assembly model. Why is CADWorx one of the fastest growing and most productive plant design suites on the market? Because it has all the tools to produce intelligent plant designs, including: • Piping • Steel • Cable trays/ducting • Collision detection • Equipment • Bills of material • Isometrics • Flow schematics • Instrument loop diagrams • Bi-directional links to analysis programs • Walkthrough and visualization Drawings and 3D Annotation Although the dream of the paperless office has been proposed for many years, it still proves elusive, and the fact remains that drawings aren’t going away anytime soon. Drawings are created in NX’s drafting environment, and NX 5 provides easy-tonavigate user interface (UI) elements for producing engineering drawings directly from 3D models or assembly parts, as well as from 2D parts. The drawings are associative to models, meaning that a drawing reflects changes in a model as a design progresses. This ability ensures that drawings are current with regard to assembly models or individual modeling piece parts. Although these capabilities aren’t new or unique, they do make NX 5 easier to use. The drafting environment includes drag-and-drop annotation, the ability to edit annotation values, and the ability to delete drafting objects; helper lines (dotted lines) that visually assist you in aligning annotations and drawing views; and the ability to select member views directly on a drawing and to move and align a view. Drafting options are accessible from Edit and Insert Menus, toolbars, CADWorx delivers! Contact us to find out how you can improve your design efficiency. Plant Focused. Industry Driven. +1 281-890-4566 • SM sales@coade.com www.coade.com DOWNLOAD FREE DEMO and Resource tabs. You can also drag and drop template files from Resource bar options to automatically create parts lists, tabular notes, and drawings. NX 5 lets you create 3D annotations, also known as product and manufacturing information (PMI), for capturing design intent, encouraging information reuse, and automating drawing creation (figure 4). New inheritance methods let you specify which PMI annotations will be inherited on 2D drawing views, eliminating the need to duplicate this step when creating drawings. The Associated Objects option in the drafting environment associates geometry to a PMI annotation. Designers can use this option to capture design intent by specifying the portions of the model to which the PMI pertains. For example, if you have a note that specifies a particular finish for several faces but you only want the note to point to one of the faces, you can attach the note to that face and use the Associated Objects option to associate all the faces to the note. If you select the note, then all its associated faces highlight in the graphics window. 30 December 2007 | cadalyst | www.cadalyst.com ©2007 COADE, Inc. Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, and AutoCAD are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. http://www.coade.com http://www.coade.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - December 2007 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central Autodesk Gets Digital Top Honors - Saluting Outstanding CAD Products NX 5, Part 2 — CAD/CAM/CAE Software Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 —3D Modeling, Animation, and Rendering Software Document Management: Is It Still Valid? Standardizing 3D Modeling Nomenclature Share and Share Alike Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Cad Fidential

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