Posts Tagged ‘PLM Europe’
NX 8 for CAM and Tooling
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
As I mentioned before, NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product. One of the areas that I’d like to highlight is CAM and Tooling (as we call it, Manufacturing).
Following is an interview with Mirko Bäcker of our European team discussing NX 8 for manufacturing.
Jerry
Teamcenter at PLM Europe
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Eduard Marfa is Director EMEA Marketing – Teamcenter. I spoke with him this week about Teamcenter 8.3 momentum.
In our video interview, he discusses how customers are adopting 8.3, and how High Definition PLM is transforming decision making.
Jerry
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
Introducing NX 8 for manufacturing productivity
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
NX CAM redefines manufacturing productivity with a full range of NC programming capabilities optimized for machinery parts. Advanced programming capabilities that are necessary for machinery parts are available with milling, drilling, turning, mill-turn and wire EDM applications. And with NX 8, new processors provide the most efficient approach for programming prismatic features like holes, slots and pockets. The milling, turning and mill-turn functions are enhanced with stocksensitive tracking of the in-process work piece to make machinery part programming fast and simple.
Jerry
Introducing NX8 for Simulation Productivity
Monday, October 17th, 2011
NX 8 for simulation productivity Drastically reduce the time you spend preparing and solving analysis models by up to 70 percent. Siemens has strengthened and expanded upon the technologies from its long simulation legacy and has brought them together to form NX CAE, a modern and integrated high-end analysis environment, and NX Nastran, a premium finite element solver. NX 8 introduces over 200 new capabilities to both NX CAE and NX Nastran that enable you to rapidly build, update and simulate analysis models, make smarter engineering decisions and deliver better products faster.
Jerry
NX 8 Announced at PLM Europe
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Jan Larsson of Siemens PLM discusses the PLM Europe event and the Announcement of NX8 during the morning Keynote presentation.
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
Guten Morgen From Siemens PLM Connection Europe 2011
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Hello from Linz, Austria where we’re kicking off Siemens PLM Connection Europe. Approximately 850 customers and partners and Siemens employees are gathered here to share knowledge and best practices over the next few days.
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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
