Advanced solid modeling and assembly design aids in NX are ideally suited for general tool, jig and fixture design. Designers begin with solid models of parts, in-process workpieces, or product assemblies, using associative capabilities to directly relate tooling models to the geometry of the workpiece.
With feature-based modeling, component libraries, and assembly design aids, tool designers can quickly model workholding fixtures, jigs and other production tools, ensuring accurate fit and function of the tooling to the workpiece.

NX provides powerful capabilities for creating jigs and fixtures that are associativily matched to the design parts or assemblies:

• Knowledge driven automation to update fixture designs to match new product arrangements.
• Rapidly perform design changes with associativity.
• Validate and guarantee the design.
• Connect seamlessly to NX’s simulation products to analyze geometry and check for strength, distortion, modes of vibration, as a part of the fixture design process – all in NX.
• Connect directly to NX CAM to prepare NC programs to mill, drill and turn fixture components – all in NX.

The NX Advantages:

• Assembly design context:
  With NX Assembly`s modeling approach, it is natural to design fixture components around the part or assembly the fixture serves. NX offers the powerful capabilities in geometric and large assembly modeling making it ideal for all types of fixture design.
• Associative surfaces for easy, fast updates:
  With the Wave Link technology, jigs and fixtures can contain the geometry of the held part. Full associativity between the product model and the fixture can ensure fast, accurate updates.
• Utilize fixture assemblies across many manufacturing applications:
  The careful design work you perform to get precise and careful work holding can be carried on to various manufacturing applications. NX CAM can use fixtures directly in the machining environment, including fixture collision avoidance and detailed machine motion simulation.
• Simulation:
  Easy to use kinematic software can be used to display and check mechanisms and NX offers a wide range of tools for stress analysis. Welding fixture complete with clamps and welding guns for an automotive assembly.
• Complex configurations:
  Using Teamcenter extensions to the NX Managed Environment, an unlimited range of alternative configurations of fixtures can be defined and recalled as required. NX can display multiple arrangements of fixtures that have different conditions, for example, opened or closed positions.