AI Capabilities in Siemens Software

 

Below you will find a library of resources related to AI in Siemens Software:

 

Copilot

Copilot is a powerful AI-driven tool that continues to evolve as it learns from real-world engineering data and usage patterns. By understanding the terminology, workflows, and context that engineers rely on every day, it becomes increasingly effective over time. Embedded directly within the software, Copilot goes beyond answering questions—it proactively surfaces relevant resources, links, and shortcut commands, helping users save time and work more efficiently.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X Solid Edge
  • Designcenter X
  • NX X for Manufacturing

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Copilot: Solid Edge

Copilot: Designcenter

Performance Predictor

Performance Predictor in Designcenter uses intelligent data analysis insights to help engineers understand how designs and manufacturing processes are likely to perform before issues occur. By learning from simulation results, operational data, and historical project trends, it can identify potential bottlenecks, performance risks, and optimization opportunities earlier in the workflow. Embedded directly within Designcenter, Performance Predictor helps teams improve product reliability, reduce rework, and make faster, more confident engineering decisions.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter
  • NX X for Manufacturing

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Performance Predictor: Designcenter

Command Prediction

Command Prediction in Designcenter X Solid Edge and Designcenter X uses AI to learn your design workflows and anticipate the tools you will need next. By surfacing relevant commands based on your current task and usage patterns, it reduces time spent searching through menus and helps engineers stay focused on designing. Embedded directly within the Designcenter and Designcenter Solid Edge interfaces, Command Prediction creates a faster, smarter, and more intuitive design experience.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X Solid Edge
  • Designcenter Solid Edge
  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter
  • NX X for Manufacturing

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Command Prediction: Solid Edge

Command Prediction: Designcenter

AI Drawings

Automatic Drawings in Designcenter Solid Edge uses Artificial Intelligence to dramatically accelerate the drawing creation process. Trained on real, production-ready drawings provided by Siemens customers, it understands drafting standards, common engineering practices, and drawing layouts to help generate accurate, production-ready documentation automatically.

In less than 30 seconds, Automatic Drawings can produce a nearly complete drawing package with the required principal views, isometric views, dimensions, and common feature callouts already in place. By automating much of the repetitive drafting work, engineers and designers can spend less time creating drawings and more time focusing on design innovation and product development.

 

Available in:

  • Designcenter X Solid Edge
  • Designcenter Solid Edge

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AI Drawings: Solid Edge

Magnetic Snap

Magnetic Snap is an intelligent and intuitive assembly positioning tool in Designcenter Solid Edge that makes constraining components faster and more natural than traditional assembly methods. Using Artificial Intelligence and contextual understanding of user intent, Magnetic Snap automatically aligns and positions components based on both the selected geometry and surrounding assembly conditions.

By reducing the need for repetitive constraint creation and manual alignment, Magnetic Snap streamlines assembly workflows and allows engineers and designers to build complex assemblies with greater speed, accuracy, and ease.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X Solid Edge
  • Designcenter Solid Edge

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Magnetic Snap: Solid Edge

Selection Prediction

Selection Prediction intelligently recognizes patterns and relationships within your model to dramatically speed up the selection process. Instead of manually clicking dozens or even hundreds of similar faces, holes, edges, or components, engineers can make a single selection and allow the system to predict and gather related geometry automatically. This is especially valuable when working with mirrored features, repetitive patterns, fastener groups, or consistent design elements across large assemblies. By reducing repetitive manual work, Selection Prediction helps designers stay focused on engineering decisions, improve workflow efficiency, and accelerate model preparation for downstream operations such as editing, simulation, or manufacturing.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter

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Selection Prediction: Designcenter

Select Similar Components

Select Similar Components streamlines assembly management by instantly identifying and selecting components that share matching characteristics, geometry, or attributes within a design. Instead of manually searching through complex assemblies, engineers can quickly isolate identical or comparable parts with a single action, making it easier to apply edits, assign properties, analyze groups, or prepare models for manufacturing. Whether working with repeated hardware, patterned assemblies, or standardized components, Select Similar Components reduces repetitive selection work, improves consistency across the design process, and helps teams work more efficiently in large-scale assemblies.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter

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Select Similar Components: Designcenter

Select Similar Faces

Select Similar Faces provides intelligent, real-time recognition of matching geometric regions across parts and assemblies, allowing engineers to quickly locate, select, and manipulate similar faces with minimal effort. Instead of manually identifying repeated features one by one, users can instantly find matching regions across multiple components, dramatically reducing repetitive selection work and improving workflow efficiency. Engineers can also create custom validation checks for similar regions and build reusable libraries of commonly searched face conditions, making it easier to standardize design verification processes across projects. By accelerating precise region recognition and enabling Design for Manufacturability (DFM) validation on repeated features, Select Similar Faces helps improve product quality, reduce errors, and streamline engineering operations with fewer clicks and faster decision-making.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter

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Select Similar Faces: Designcenter

Auto Dimension

Auto Dimensioning in Designcenter Solid Edge automatically generates PMI dimensions for part and sheet metal models, ensuring features are fully defined for manufacturing. It applies consistent tolerances and supports key geometry like holes, faces, slots, and cylinders to reduce manual detailing. Built-in checking tools also identify over- or under-constrained models with clear visual feedback, improving accuracy and design efficiency.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X Solid Edge
  • Designcenter Solid Edge

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Auto Dimension: Solid Edge

PMI Annotation Plane and Model View Prediction

PMI Annotation Plane and Model View Prediction uses domain-specific machine learning to intelligently automate the definition and organization of Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) during the authoring process. By leveraging processed training data and advanced in-house machine learning models, or by utilizing out-of-the-box deployment, the system can automatically predict and assign the appropriate PMI annotation planes and model view specifications for each PMI object. This enables engineers to generate structured, standards-based PMI faster and with greater consistency across designs. By reducing manual setup and minimizing the need for post-process cleanup, PMI Annotation Plane and Model View Prediction helps accelerate documentation workflows, improve annotation quality, and deliver more predictable results aligned with established engineering best practices.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter

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PMI Annotation Plane and Model View Prediction: Designcenter

NX X for Manufacturing – CAM

Machining Recommendations

Machining Recommendations in NX X acts as a smart assistant, analyzing your part’s geometry, material, and your company’s best practices to suggest optimal machining operations and tools. It intelligently scans features like holes and pockets, recommending suitable operations (e.g., drilling, milling) and appropriate cutting tools from your library. This capability can also suggest initial cutting parameters, leveraging your established manufacturing knowledge. Its core benefits include significantly reducing CAM programming time, improving consistency across parts, and empowering both new and experienced users by offering expert advice.

Feature-Based Machining (FBM)

Feature-Based Machining (FBM) elevates intelligent programming by automatically generating entire machining programs. It starts with Automatic Feature Recognition (AFR), where NX X identifies and classifies manufacturing features (like holes, pockets, and slots) directly from the 3D CAD model, understanding their shape and intent. FBM then applies predefined, customizable “machining rules” or “process templates” to dictate how each feature should be machined. This leads to the automated generation of machining operations, optimized tool paths, and even NC code for your specific machine tools. FBM’s primary advantages are massive increases in automation, faster turnaround times, reduced errors through standardized processes, and scalability for parts with recurring features.

How They Work Together

Machining Recommendations and FBM often complement each other. Recommendations can provide initial suggestions for complex or novel features where FBM rules might not yet exist, while FBM excels at automating standardized processes for common features. Insights from Recommendations can also help refine and build your FBM knowledge libraries. Together, these capabilities streamline CAM programming, minimize manual effort, enhance consistency, and ultimately accelerate the production of high-quality parts.

Available in:

  • NX X for Manufacturig

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Topology Optimization

Topology Optimization helps engineers begin the design process with performance-driven insight by using simulation results to guide geometry creation and refinement. Instead of designing first and validating later, functional requirements such as strength, stiffness, weight, and load conditions directly influence how material is distributed throughout the part. This allows engineers to develop highly efficient, lightweight designs that maintain structural integrity while reducing unnecessary material usage and overall ecological impact. By providing design guidance based on real load paths, Topology Optimization enables smarter engineering decisions early in development and helps create components optimized for both additive and traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. The result is lower manufacturing costs, simplified assemblies with fewer parts, and innovative designs that deliver improved performance with greater production efficiency.

Available in:

  • Designcenter X
  • Designcenter

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Topology Optimization: Designcenter