NX CAD for Canon camera design

Consumer Products

Some of the most respected product development companies in the world use Siemens PLM software and Invention Machine to optimize their product development and manufacturing activities. From Adams Golf, Apple and Canon to Samsung, Triumph Motorcycles and Xerox, NX, Solid Edge and Teamcenter help leading companies ideate, innovate and produce class leading products.

Acuity has spent 20+ years working with our customers to help them maximize the use of their engineering technology tools—we look forward to earning the opportunity to do the same with you.  Read on to learn more about the specialized technologies available to give you the competitive edge.


Design Freedom

The best consumer products today are innovative, stylish and highly functional.  To accomplish all of these goals in one design class "A" surfaces are often needed, and power and flexibility of design without artificially imposed design limitations are a must.

Parametric design alone is just not enough today—its design-confining rules and difficulty in making running changes just doesn't cut it in today's competitive environment.  Watch the camera body design video and read a few of case studies to see how Design Freedom and Synchronous Technology have changed the world of consumer product design.

 


Solid Edge

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology is the most powerful, flexible and capable mid-range CAD tool available today. Built around the ability to effortlessly handle extremely large assemblies, do the most advanced sheet metal design, unprecedented 2D to 3D capabilities, and now, the unequaled Synchronous Technology, Solid Edge is the most CAD tool you can possibly purchase for your money.

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NX CAD

NX CAD from Siemens PLM Software delivers next-generation design tools and technologies that help companies transform product development. Leading-edge design tools work in the context of the total development effort, fully integrating design with the other disciplines that bring products to market in a unified, managed environment.

NX design tools are superior in power, versatility, flexibility and productivity. From innovative Synchronous Technology that unites parametric and history-free modeling to NX Active Mockup for multi-CAD assembly design, NX delivers breakthrough technology that set new standards for speed, performance, and ease of use.

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Goldfire Innovation Software

Goldfire drives sustainable innovation, helping manufacturing companies around the world make innovation a value-driving core competency.

Goldfire delivers innovation results:
  • Faster time to market with more innovative and differentiated products
  • Reduced product design and development costs
  • Improved product quality and reliability
  • Increased value for the company’s intellectual property
  • Increased productivity for innovation workers across the organization
  • Improved revenues and bottom line profitability

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Simulation (FEA)

 Most versions of NX and Solid Edge now come with some level of analysis functionality.

Depending on your needs, Acuity also provides advanced product simulation and analysis with integrated solutions for NX.  For advanced needs with Solid Edge (beyond what is included in Solid Edge Simulation) we also offer Femap, whci also works independently with any CAD solution and Design Space from Ansys.

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Electronics Manufacturing Solutions

High Tech and Electronics manufacturers must bring cost-effective products to market faster than ever while meeting a variety of challenges including:

  • Managing the data associated with the introduction of large numbers of new products in record time
  • Manufacturing a growing mix of complex products
  • Meeting customer and regulatory demands like traceability and lead-free manufacturing
  • Introducing new technologies, being components, software, equipment or processes.
  • Feeding critical as-built information back to enterprise systems

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See the best consumer product development & design tools in action

Razor Scooters Length: 4:58
Created: 07/01/2011
Watch this video to learn how Solid Edge has changed the product development process at Razor.
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Black Diamond Equipment Length: 8:10
Created: 07/01/2011
The design team at Black Diamond shows how NX is used throughout their concept and design stages for designing their latest, state-of-the-art ski boots.
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NX Rapid Shape Design with S/T
NX Rapid Shape Design with S/T Length: 4:07
Created: 06/01/2011
Watch how NX CAD with Synchronous Technology can start with an extruded rectangle and create this sculpted camera body in just minutes! This video shows how S/T allows for advanced design freedom in history-free mode, allowing for industrial design quality surfacing without the drawbacks of parameters being required until you want or need them.
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h3>Product design application stories

Black Diamond Equipment

Black Diamond Equipment Ltd. is an employee-owned manufacturer of equipment for rock climbing, alpinism and freeride skiing. They collaborate across the globe to design and produce state-of-the-art climbing and skiing equipment on extremely aggressive cycle times. In particular, the advanced and powerful surfacing in NX allows for all the industrial design to take place within the mechanical engineering environment, drastically reducing errors and shortening the overall design cycle of their products.
application/pdf iconSiemens-PLM-Black-Diamond-NX-cs-X13.pdf

Dyson

Backed by a culture that revolves around innovation, Dyson elevated the vacuum cleaner to a work of high-performance engineering and catapulted itself into market leadership. Dyson uses digital product development in its R&D projects, such as the D15 vacuum cleaner, while maintaining fast development cycles.
application/pdf iconSiemens-PLM-Dyson-cs-X4.pdf

SurfaceInk Product Design

SurfaceInk Corp., founded in 1999, is a mechanical engineering and design consulting firm. Its engineers perform high-end mechanical engineering for the Silicon Valley’s leading industrial design groups, computer companies and product manufacturers. They use NX because of its ability to do industrial design grade surfacing and rendering with full integration into the mechanical design process.

Mercury Marine

Mercury Marine is the world’s leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion engines. A $1.5 billion division of Brunswick Corporation, Mercury provides engines, boats, services and parts for recreational, commercial and government marine applications. “Before the business process transformation, product design data and project data was stored and managed in multiple systems, which led to longer lead times in our product development process,” explains Balakrishna Shetty, technical lead for CAD, CAM and PLM Systems at Mercury. “With the defined release processes in Teamcenter to capture the development- and milestone-specific design builds, all stakeholders in the product development process are ensured of using the same information to make the right decisions.”
application/pdf iconSiemens-PLM-Mercury-Marine-cs-X19.pdf

Samsung & Goldfire

Learn how Samsung, a long-time user of Invention Machine Goldfire, was able to save $77.7m over a three year period, while at the same time increasing their market share.
application/pdf iconIM_SuccessStory_Samsung.pdf

Seiko Watch

Learn how Seiko Epson's watch division has completely revamped their design process into a program they call QVDP for Quick Virtual Development Process, which reduced their design cycle and time to market by over 50%, while at the same time improving product quality by 100%.
application/pdf iconNX_seiko_epson_cs_W2.pdf

Triumph Motorcycles

Triumph motorcycles solves it class "A" (very high quality) surfacing problems while at the same time speeding and improving 3D scanning, reverse engineering and inspection practices. They are able to reduce the process time and improve quality, all while producing the very highest quality surfaces for their motorcycles.
application/pdf iconTriumph_NX.pdf

Canon Photography

Canon needed advanced, ergonomic shapes for their most advanced "pro" digital SLR camera, and they needed the new model done faster than they've ever done before. NX with Synchronous Technology provided them with the powerful, parametric-free surfacing they needed, along with all the traditional CAD power they needed. Read the Case Study to learn more details.
application/pdf iconCanon_NX.pdf

Samsung Electronics

Samsung employs NX and Teamcenter to leverage their drive to leadership in consumer electronics.
application/pdf iconNX_Siemens-PLM-Samsung-Electronics-cs-X6.pdf

Rowenta Consumer Appliances

While irons may not seem like very complicated products, their design includes complicated geometrical contours that appeal to style-conscious consumers as well as intricate internal mechanisms that make them convenient to use. Learn how NX CAD enabled substantial process improvements.
application/pdf iconNX_rowenta_cs_W3.pdf


Informational Events

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Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:00am
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What’s New in NX 8 Modeling, Assemblies and Drafting: training webinar

This webinar from the Education Services group at Siemens PLM Software is an introduction to what’s new in NX 8.0 focusing on a few different areas of modeling, drafting, and assemblies. We’ll touch on some user interface changes and some specific enhancements. 
Topics include:

  • Modeling – new Pattern Feature (replacement for Instance Feature). We’ll show how to use this new feature.
  • Assemblies – new Assembly Constraint Navigator. This will make it easier for users to view/edit constraints in their assemblies.
  • Drafting – new View Break (replacement for the Broken View). The new View Break operation is much easier to use than the Broken View function it replaces.

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    Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:00am
    PST

    Getting Control over CAE Data and Processes

    • How to manage all of your CAE data within one system that guarantees accurate, up-to-date data
    • How to insure CAE data consistency, traceability and standardized CAE workflow processes
    • How to provide a means by which global CAE teams can launch their CAE tools, even 3rd party software, and confidently find and re-use models, data and processes

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    Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    Building the PLM Foundation with PDM

    • CAD Management - Fully integrated access inside the cad environment. Integrate your CAD tools by bringing together the product designs within a single product data management system. You can capture, manage and synchronize product design data within one source. Document Management - Allows the entire enterprise of users to use Microsoft Office applications within the Teamcenter environment in a highly integrated manner. This allows users to make more use out of applications they already are familiar with and know how to use
    • Process Enablement - Release Management is the set of processes used to assess the readiness of a product for promotion to its next lifecycle state.
    • Paperless Collaboration - Allow all lifecycle participants to visualize product data in 2D and 3D formats in order to make better informed decisions, early in the design process and even when this data is created using different authoring applications.
    • Data Security - Controlled timely access to intellectual capital internally, externally and legally.

     

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    Wed, 03/07/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    Innovation—the Lifeblood of American companies

    We all know that innovation is the lifeblood of American companies. Are you happy with how yours is going? Are new ideas being generated and managed as well as they could be?

    Invention Machine's Goldfire Computer Aided Innovation software can help you achieve sustainable, repeatable innovation.  It also allows you to data mine your company's tribal knowledge and archive it for future use.

    Join us for this short, live web-cast and learn more about how the world's best companies are using this technology to drive their product innovation.

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    Wed, 03/07/2012 - 11:00am
    PST

    Capture & Manage your IP with Decipher Engineering

    Decipher Engineering™ from Innovation Asset Group is an enterprise software solution that takes a uniquely business-oriented approach to managing Intellectual Property all along the IP Value Chain™—from the point of ideation through portfolio management and commercialization.

    Decipher provides a central repository for all your IP assets and related data, a flexible platform for workflow automation and reporting, and a superior visualization dashboard to see how everything interrelates.

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    Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    Manufacturing Data Management - How data management helps to make parts better, faster & at lower cost.

    This recording of one of our web meetings will discuss and demonstrate how fully integrated data management significantly enhances the manufacturing environment.  Managing tooling, NC tool paths and other related engineering data, including the communicatioin of data to the machine controllers, can now all be done in a single environment, eliminating errors and greatly enhancing productivity. 

    Join us from your desk for this informative session.

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    Thu, 03/15/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    NX CAE Practical Applications Webinar

    This is a live webinar series held the 3rd Thursday of every other month. It begins at 10:00 a.m. PT/1:00 p.m. ET and will last approximately one hour. 

    Dates and Topics for 2012 are:
    March 15, 2012  Assembly FEM and Superelements
    May 17, 2012  Laminate Composites
    July 19, 2012  Multidisciplinary Analyses
    September 20, 2012 Integrated Motion and FEA
    November 15, 2012 Electronics Systems Cooling


    The Webinar will be broken up into 3 sections as shown below:
    • The first section will consist of a technical presentation showcasing an in-depth “How To” example demonstration
    • The second section of the seminar will be used by our GTAC organization to discuss current top CAE issues and    resolutions.  
    • The final section will be used as a live Question & Answer section. 

     

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    Tue, 03/20/2012 - 11:00am
    PST

    Impact of changing your CAD modeling kernel

    Attend this webcast and learn about the three main core technologies of CAD, how they work together and how they are different. If you use or are considering a purchase of SolidWorks, you need to attend this event. Kernel-change topics include:

    • Design and business impacts
    • Keep your data intact and move to breakthrough CAD at the same time
    • Synchronous technology from Siemens PLM Software
    • Converting SolidWorks data to Solid Edge
    • Companies that switched to Solid Edge

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    Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    Innovation—the Lifeblood of American companies

    We all know that innovation is the lifeblood of American companies. Are you happy with how yours is going? Are new ideas being generated and managed as well as they could be?

    Invention Machine's Goldfire Computer Aided Innovation software can help you achieve sustainable, repeatable innovation.  It also allows you to data mine your company's tribal knowledge and archive it for future use. 

    Join us for this short, live web-cast and learn more about how the world's best companies are using this technology to drive their product innovation.

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    Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:00am
    PST

    PLM World (NX and Team Center Users)

    Mar 21 - Apr 13, 2012

    Apr 14 - Mar 10, 2012

    Why You Should Attend:

    • Enhance your Knowledge
    • Take advantage of hands on oppurtunities
    • Use the week to gather REAL user feedback
    • Learn about the tools that can improve your productivity

     

    For more information click here

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