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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Product design</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">As with I-deas, products can be designed from the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_12.html');return(false);">bottom up</a>; to build assemblies from existing parts, or from the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_13.html');return(false);">top down</a>; to create the product structure first.
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      <p class="para_topic">The simplest bottom up product design process will change little from I-deas:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/02qt_nx_basics_5.html');return(false);">Design parts</a> (Standard parts and custom parts).
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            <p class="para_item">Create <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_12.html');return(false);">Assemblies</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">Create <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_7.html');return(false);">Drawings</a>.
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      <p class="para_topic">There are many ways to do top down design, and NX offers new capability in this area. A basic top down process might look like:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_13.html');return(false);">Create an assembly</a> of the top level product structure.
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            <p class="para_item">Create simple geometry to define space envelopes and interfaces.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Define driving <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_33.html');return(false);">parameters</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">Model <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_41.html');return(false);">standard parts</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">Design custom <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/02qt_nx_basics_5.html');return(false);">parts</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">Subdivide parts into subassemblies.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_7.html');return(false);">drawings</a>.
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