Posts Tagged ‘design’
Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 – Los Angeles – May 6-9, 2012
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Are you an Electric Vehicle enthusiast interested in seeing a wide range of solutions to enable the electrification of transportation? Join us for EVS26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center!
Siemens will be showcasing our solutions from industry automation for manufacturing and design to EV components and charging solutions.
Displays will include:
- Drive Technology solutions: Information on Siemens’ motors and inverters.
- Private Charging solutions: Showcasing VersiCharge line of products
- Commercial charging solutions: Showcasing variety of public charging solutions
- Electric highway technology (eHighways), showcasing the new environmental way heavy duty trucks can transport items from ports to metropolitan areas.
- Industry Automation solutions: optimal and sustainable battery manufacturing process.
- EV design software solutions
- An electric car that is an electric conversion performed by local engineering students utilizing Siemens PLM software during the EcoCAR competition.
- Siemens Smart Chopper. An all-electric chopper built by the famed American Chopper group.
Siemens will be presenting at 7 sessions, including an open plenary session, on May 7.
Siemens PLM will be there showing our solutions for:
- Anywhere, anytime decision making with Teamcenter mobility
- Improving the decision making process through a systems driven product development process
- Single source of product and process knowledge
We hope that you will come join us at EVS26, next week:
EVS26.org
May 6-9, 2012
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
If you aren’t attending Siemens PLM Connection in Las Vegas, stop by our booth and say hi. I’ll be at EVS26!
Jerry
NX Hints and Tips – view a model from inside the model
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models. But what if you want to view a model from inside the model?
You can use this method to show a correct perspective view from inside a vehicle, a building, or a ship.
This technique uses two NX functions – creating a camera and setting the center of rotation.
Remember that the camera location and perspective are stored with the camera definition, but not the Rotate Point.
Jerry
New NX 8 Help and Videos
Monday, February 27th, 2012
With NX8, the NX Help system has a new interface that makes it easier for you to find information and browse content.
Some of the key enhancements are:
- Search performance is improved.
- Search filtering gives you control to search in specific areas of NX.
- Help is reorganized to make navigation more logical, to increase the relevancy of search results, and to make search filtering more specific.
- Breadcrumb links are available on each page to help you keep track of your location. ( A table of contents is still available, but is not displayed by default. )
- Links to all related information are displayed on the right side. Links are organized by information type under different headings.
- And my favorite enhancement; the video examples included with the Help now include voice-over narration. This narration provides important information about the steps being demonstrated. For each video, you can use the options on the play bar to display closed caption text or to mute the narration.
Following is a video from NX Help:
Be sure to click on the red CC button, to see the caption text.
Would you like to see more NX help videos? Let me know if you’d like me to post more of them.
Jerry
NX CAE Symposium – Keynotes
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Here is another report from Mark at the Siemens PLM CAE Symposium.
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The NX CAE Symposium kicked off this morning at the Joe Gibbs Racing Facility. Attendees staying at the Hilton were treated to a scenic shuttle ride into the Huntersville facility, with the fall colors at their peak. I found myself impressed by the contemporary architecture of the Joe Gibbs facility and its lush, wooded surroundings. A buffet breakfast consisting of biscuits, sausage, fresh fruit, coffee and juices got everyone off to a great start!
Jon Heidorn, VP of Marketing for the Americas gave the opening address, and welcomed attendees to the first ever NX CAE Symposium.
The opening customer key note was a joint presentation by Mark Bringle and Nelson Cosgrove of Joe Gibbs Racing.
Mark and Nelson entertained the group with numerous NASCAR video clips and interesting facts. I was awed to hear that JGR routinely races 43 cars in every race, every week, and that 21 CNC machines operating in two shifts are required to satisfy the resulting part fabrication demand. I also learned that NASCAR is now broadcast in 150 countries, and in 30 different languages, making it nothing less than a spectator sports super-phenomenon! It was great to hear that JGR employs NX Flow CFD aerodynamic simulations for intensive rock sorting of concepts, postponing the staggering $30,000/day cost of wind tunnel testing until the later stages of the design.
Come back for more from the Symposium.
Mark
Siemens PLM NX CAE Symposium
Monday, November 7th, 2011
This week, Siemens PLM is hosting our NX CAE Symposium. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend, but my colleague Mark Subramaniam will attend and provide reports from the event.
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Siemens PLM Software will proudly to host its first ever NX CAE Symposium, from 7-8 November in Huntersville, North Carolina. Located 12 miles north of Charlotte, Huntersville is home to acclaimed NASCAR racing outfit, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR). This year’s symposium will be held at JGR’s 250,000 square foot facility. The facility, which supports numerous NASCAR teams, employs a staff of 450. Owner and proprietor, Joe Gibbs needs little introduction, having lead the Washington Redskins to four NFC Championship and three Superbowl titles, as head coach. JGR has enjoyed three NASCAR Cup Series Championship victories under the pro football hall-of-famer’s leadership. The team receives major corporate sponsorship from the likes of Home Depot, FedEx, Mars Candy, Coca Cola, and Toyota.
The debut event will feature diverse presentations from customers including Joe Gibbs Racing, ATK Launch Systems, MDA, Proctor & Gamble, Southwest Solar Technologies, Hendrick Motorsports, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, ATA, Siemens Energy, Caterpillar, and Lockheed Martin. In-house presentations from Siemens PLM Software, and a certain-to-be-lively panel discussion with PLM Industry expert, Dennis Nagy round out the two day agenda.
Attendees checking in last night had the opportunity to mingle, and socialize at the welcome reception, held at the host hotel.
Stay tuned for exciting updates and developments as the conference kicks off tomorrow.
Mark Subramaniam
Senior Marketing Manager in the NX Simulation Product Marketing group
Trends in Container Design
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
At PLM Europe, I had the opportunity to attend John Manderfields presentation “NX for Sustainable Packaging”. During his session he discussed the trends for Sustainability, differences between packaging (plastic bottles) in North America versus Europe, and more.
After his session, he sat down with me, and we discussed today’s trends for making plastic bottles.
John Manderfield is the Director of Creative Design, at Consolidated Container Company.
Jerry
From yachts to fashion, with Giorgio Aldini of XFORM s.r.l.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Today at PLM Europe, Giorgio Aldini of XFORM gave his keynote presentation. The title was: From Yachts to Fashion. During his presentation he showed how NX is used in some unconventioal ways. (see presentation below)
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After his presentation, Jan Larsson interviewed him an asked him to discuss some of his projects.
Jerry
What’s new in NX 8 Product Design
Monday, October 17th, 2011
NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product. In product deisgn, some of these include:
- Modular design NX introduces a modular design capability that simplifies modeling and editing of complex designs, and enables parallel work by multiple designers.
- Feature-based modeling A new feature browser provides a visually rich graphic view of features and their relations that helps you to more quickly and intuitively understand design intent and the impacts of design changes.
- New Patterning. You can now create patterns with a wider selection of layouts that included linear, polygon, along, reference, circular spiral or general options. You can also fill a specified boundary with a pattern feature, create symmetric patterns in linear layout, stagger columns or rows and radiate patterns in circular or polygon layouts.
- Synchronous modeling The fourth release of NX featuring synchronous technology, NX 8 includes improved synchronous modeling capabilities that improve modeling flexibility and enable evaluation of more design alternatives in less time.
- Freeform modeling NX 8 enhances freeform design with streamlined workflows and enhanced controls for a wide range curve and surface operations, including edge matching, sweeping, bridge and extension surfaces, variable offsets, curve fitting and alignment, blending and spline editing.
- Assembly design NX 8 features a constraint navigator that makes it easier to find and work on assembly constraints and resolve issues. Available from the resource bar, the constraint navigator displays configurable columns of information and options that enable you to group constraint information by components, by constraints, and by status.
- Routed systems design Routing applications in NX 8 help you automate part selection and placement to reduce modeling time. You can automatically select and place parts based on destination characteristics and run definition, with part search criteria based on defined rules and relationships.
- Sheet metal design Sheet metal design in NX 8 is improved with capabilities for modeling in the context of an assembly. You can now create associative flanges using existing geometry to control the extent and angle of the flange.
- Re-use The NX Reuse Library, a common platform for all re-usable design elements, has been enhanced with additional library management tools that enable you to add or remove libraries, edit properties, control the visibility and specify which libraries are available to NX applications.
- Visualization The visualization tools in NX have been enhanced with advanced realtime shading and rendering tools that deliver new levels of realism for aesthetic design review and validation.
- Drafting NX 8 drafting tools have been enhanced with a set of commands for creating and editing your own custom drawings templates.
- NX help documentation NX8 features a new look and feel and navigational aids for NX documentation. The new user interface makes it easier to find information and browse contents.
That’s a long list, but I’ve barely scratched the surface. To get all the details, take a look at What’s New in NX 8 .
Jerry
Introducing NX8
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Today, Siemens PLM is proud to announce NX 8. The latest release of our fully integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution.
Enhancements to NX include:
- Product design includes more powerful and efficient modeling, drafting and validation solutions along with expanded HD3D support for better design decisions. New “part modules” technology simplifies modeling and editing of complex designs, allowing users to subdivide designs into functional elements that support concurrent development by multiple designers.
- NX CAM enhancements for machinery and heavy equipment extend existing CAD/CAM, programming automation, and integrated machine tool simulation capabilities with new automated, context-specific functions to simplify the generation of smart tool paths for prismatic parts.
- NX 8 for simulation offers new solutions for optimization and multi-physics analysis. along with new methods for analyzing complex assemblies. Enhancements to NX Nastran include improvements in nonlinear and dynamic analysis, as well as increases in computational performance and modeling ease-of-use. The new and existing functionalityin NX CAE helps reduce the time spent preparing and solving analysis models by up to 70 percent when compared to traditional CAE tools.
I’ll be blogging from the announcement event at PLM Connection Europe in Linz, Austria. Come back to this blog to see more during the week.
NX 8 is available immediately. For more detailed information on all the new functionality in NX 8, please visit www.siemens.com/plm/nx8 .
Jerry
Interview with Paul Brown regarding the NX Strategy
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
As I mentioned in my previous post “NX at PLM Connection – Day 1” Joan Hirsch with help of Paul Brown presented the key points of the NX Strategy.
Following is an interview I did with Paul where he reviews some of the key items discussed. Continue reading “Interview with Paul Brown regarding the NX Strategy” »
