ABSTRACT
Increasing the efficiency of production processes is crucial in the modern manufacturing industry. This paper presents two software tools to enhance the productivity of common part/assembly design process. Both are developed for the widely used Siemens NX CAD system. The first module is an interactive multi-component software tool, which was developed for supporting similarity-based product design. This application can use product repository, makes possible to search by any specific parameters and export a new parameter file for creating new parts. The second module offers a UI driven semi-automatic way to enhance component replacement process of a complex assembly. The presented modules make the whole development process more effective because they are suitable to semi-automate the 3D model creation process. Applying these, human errors can be reduced, and the modelling process can be significantly accelerated.
