Posts Tagged ‘Synchronous Technology’
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
Local Motors launches Solid Edge Design1
Friday, November 11th, 2011
In our last post about the SEMA show and Local Motors, Mark Burhop alluded that Local Motors will be providing tools to the community to help the members working in areas of design, engineering and fabrication. It’s here and it’s called Solid Edge Design1. (Read the Press Release)
What is Solid Edge Design1?
According to the new website for Local Motors called the Forge, Solid Edge Design1 is “a professional-grade mechanical CAD program that has been created specifically for the Local Motors’ open design community. This ground breaking software makes use of Siemens PLM Software’s industry-leading synchronous technology for easy modeling of high-precision 3D models and is built upon the same technologies used heavily in the automotive industry. Before Design1, community members would have had to invest thousands of dollars for this type of functionality. Now it’s going to be available in a special version of Solid Edge at an incredible $19.95/month starting 1/1/2012.”
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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
Engineer Versus Designer (the blog about the podcast)
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
I had a bit of fun with the Engineer Vs Designer podcast folks this week. If you have not checked them out, they are Josh Mings and Adam O’Hern, one a clever engineer and the other an overly creative industrial designer. They do a weekly pod cast that is becoming so popular we may have to come up with a single name for the duo (Mern? Jadam? MingO’? )
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“Hugely Positive” about Synchronous Technology
Friday, June 17th, 2011
If you use Solid Edge, you probably know Rick Mason. If not, you need to. Rick, from MASCO Design Services has been using Solid Edge since V1 when it was announced in 1996. He is infamous among the Solid Edge user community and the only user that traveled from Australia.
Rick provides us with his insights on the product as it’s changed over the last 15 years. I love his idea of having an old NT4 machine set up at the next user event with version 3.5 running the initial release of Sheetmetal. Brillant! (Note to self, talk to John Fox about making this happen).
At the closing of the Solid Edge ST4 Event, Rick stood up and led the audience in a standing ovation. Rick, it’s us that should be thanking you for the years of dedication to Solid Edge.
Manipulating & Reusing 3rd party CAD data within Solid Edge
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
I sat in on Dr. Andrew Thomas’ (@asteng88) presentation yesterday afternoon. We asked Andrew to present his story because, well, It Rocks! I don’t think I can tell his story in a blog post quite as eloquently as he did nor will it replace you seeing it for yourself. Adrew was kind enough to give me his presentation. Live at the event, Andrew showed a video of how quickly you can edit foreign data inside Solid Edge with synchronous technology. It took him and his team longer to import the data (9 minutes) than it did to edit the data (1 minute).
On the right is an image in his presentation. I think it’s a wonderful illustration of what his company is doing – manipulating and reusing 3rd party CAD data (specifically SolidWorks and Inventor) within Solid Edge.
One more note before you scroll through the Slideshare presentation…Andrew had a quote at the end of his presentation that addressed students. Given our announcement about the Solid Edge Academic Program and my recent interview with Ben Sampson, this was timely and appropriate:
New graduates that have trained on Solid Edge will be using Synchronous Technology. “In a moving world, readaption is the price of longevity”
Solid Edge ST4: Energist and synchronous technology
I caught up with Andrew after his presentation to get a few thoughts from him.
You may remember Andrew from the interviews Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights did last November on customers who presented at the Siemens PLM Analyst event:
The Voice of Engineering: Energist’s Transition to Synchronous Technology
From Student to Synchronous Advocate
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Meet Ben Sampson. (@BenCAx)
Ben attended Utah State University, worked at the Space Dynamic Labs (SDL) and is now working out of the Dallas area for our partner Saratech. And he loves synchronous technology. A graduate of professor John Devitry’s well known and popular mechanical engineering program, Ben is now showing the power of synchronous to customers. I caught up with him after one of the sessions today.
Interview with Bruce Pettibone about Firewire Surfboards
Monday, May 9th, 2011
There are many benefits for attending PLM Connection events. According to the conference web site, some of the key advantages are:
- Enhance Your Knowledge of the products.
- Take advantage of the Hands-on opportunities with free training and help sessions.
- Use the week to gather REAL User Feedback.
- Learn about new tools that can help improve your productivity.
For me, the third item, is all about networking. Meeting new people, and catching up with old acquittance’s. While Social Networking tools such as Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook are powerful, there is nothing like chatting with someone you’ve known for a long time.
That is why I particular happy to see a former co-worker of mine at PLM Connection, Bruce Pettibone. Bruce and I were both programmers at another company, over 25 years ago. (we wrote code in a language called FORTRAN 
)
Bruce told me about a project that his company, SHAPELOGIC LLC, has been working on with Firewire Surfboards, to allow users to customize surf boards on the web.
Following is a short interview about this project.
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