"Watch this," Elias said. He switched back to the application. He didn’t need to delete the features and start over. Using Synchronous Technology , he grabbed the geometry of the offending vein. He didn't have to worry about the history tree dependencies that usually chained engineers down. He pushed and pulled the face, adjusting the wall thickness by two millimeters.

For years, the holy grail of CAD has been treating mesh data (from 3D scans or topology optimization) as first-class geometry rather than a foreign, uneditable orphan. With NX 2212, Siemens pushes into its third major iteration.

The version number "2212" typically indicates the release or build number of the software, with "22" possibly referring to the year 2022 and "12" indicating the month of December or a specific build iteration.