{"id":1464,"date":"2013-09-06T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-discussing-the-Future-of-Design\/ba-p\/4379"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:26:04","slug":"elon-musk-spacex-discussing-the-future-of-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/elon-musk-spacex-discussing-the-future-of-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk (SpaceX) discussing the Future of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Elon Musk<\/A> just posted a video that looks like it could be from the latest &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JXAgs5NN6eM?t=57s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Iron Man<\/A>&#8221; movie.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SpaceX<\/A>\u2019s engineers have combined&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX<\/A>&nbsp;with a Leap Motion controller to allow engineers to zoom around and review 3D models without touching a mouse and keyboard.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This was achieved using existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/for-design\/productivity-tools\/customization-programming.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Open API&#8217;s<\/A>.no custom code!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN style=\"line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNqs_S-zEBY\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"Video\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Ok Elon, when will I get my flying car?<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"smileyhappy\" class=\"emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy\" src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/i\/smilies\/16x16_smiley-happy.png\" alt=\"Smiley Happy\" title=\"Smiley Happy\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk just posted a video that looks like it could be from the latest &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; movie. <\/p>\n<p> SpaceX\u2019s engineers have combined&nbsp;NX&nbsp;with a Leap Motion controller to allow engineers t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}