Many engineered designs begin with fundamental calculations – sometimes sizing a design for strength or durability, or calculating performance targets for a design. These kind of calculations potentially happen long before any CAD geometry is created. Alternately, during 3D modeling, certain parameters within a design may be driven using engineering calculations. For both of these scenarios, NX Maple is a powerful tool. NX Maple supports algebraic math, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. NX and NX Maple can easily exchange variables – either to associatively link a design with its driving calculations, or to extract properties from the NX model for use in further calculations in NX Maple. Either way, the intellectual property defined by NX Maple worksheets can easily remain managed within Teamcenter.

NX gives you a common repository for locating reusable knowledge on an enterprise basis, providing an extensible library of knowledge for reuse at your fingertips: re-usable designs, standard parts, design features, symbols, 2D sections, profiles, curves, shapes, and product templates. You can quickly locate what you need, and drag-and-drop the object into your design. When using product templates from the Re-Use Library, you can automate much more than design modeling. You can automate and standardize engineering processes by incorporating product and manufacturing information, drawings, motion analysis, structural simulation, and validation checking into templates.