NX is fully integrated with the Geolus Shape Search engine, which rapidly finds parts similar to a given example based on its geometry. Search by shape enables users to find all candidate parts, no matter how they are named. The part you want is quite often the part name you do not know. Early in the design cycle, coarse parts can be used to find released parts that can either be used as is, or modified to suit. This is always faster than starting from scratch and perpetuates company practices, for example plate thickness or hole grouping. Shape Search results appear in seconds. The Geolus Shape Search integration reduces your company’s part development costs and supports best practices that eliminate part proliferation.

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.