Feature 3 | CAD/CAM NX 8.5 delivers more to the market
Siemens launches its latest NX soſtware with development aimed at meeting its customers’ needs
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X soſtware, the company’s fully integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and
engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution and will be able to make smarter decisions throughout design, simulation and manufacturing for increased flexibility and productivity, says Siemens. The latest version, NX 8.5, includes extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities that will provide increased flexibility and productivity across product engineering and manufacturing to help reduce time to market. NX 8.5 builds on Siemens PLM Soſtware’s HD-PLM vision, which was established to help companies make smarter decisions more efficiently and with a higher level of confidence. “The extensive customer-driven
enhancements and new capabilities in NX 8.5 will help our customers further reduce time to market and facilitate smarter decisions that result in better products,” said Jim Rusk, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Soſtware. “By intelligently integrating information and providing customers with a high definition user experience, we are reinforcing our commitment to HD-PLM. NX 8.5 also continues our focus on maximising customers’ return on their PLM investment. By conducting extensive
With NX 8.5 CMM Inspection Programming you can quickly create CMM programmes and visualise the measurement results directly inside NX
NX CAE 8.5 Shape Optimisation reduce stress concentrations using NX Shape Optimisation to suggest detailed improvements to an existing design
testing to ensure version compatibility between each new release, we can deliver a future-proof architecture our customers will never outgrow.” NX 8.5 will have a wide range of new
and enhanced design functionality, to help improve efficiency and reduce design time. Streamlined workflows and an enhanced user experience help improve productivity, minimise input, and reduce the effort required to accomplish design tasks. In addition, new design commands
help shorten design cycle times by up to 30%. For example the new Emboss Body command will require fewer steps when combining a region of faces from another intersecting solid or sheet body. NX 8.5 also includes other capabilities for feature modelling, sheet metal design, freeform modelling, validation checking and draſting.
NX 8.5 includes simulation enhancements that will help development
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teams more efficiently engineer products. Optimisation tools such as NX Shape Optimisation will give detailed improvements to an existing design to reduce stress concentrations. NX 8.5 also includes improvements in simulation modelling, structural, thermal, flow, motion and multi-physics analyses to help prepare more accurate analysis models faster, and speed solution time by as much as 25%, claim Siemens. NX 8.5 for simulation also includes the
release of a new version of NX Nastran soſtware, a FEA solver for computational performance, accuracy, reliability and scalability. NX Nastran 8.5, further increases the types of solutions that can be performed, along with a number of computational performance and engineering workflow improvements, such as new edge-to-edge glue contact and glue connections. NX 8.5 includes the full release of
Volume Based 2.5D Milling. Customers working with the initial introduction of this solids-based approach to the programming of prismatic shaped parts have reported excellent ease of use and faster programming times. Also new are functions to support and automate multi-part and multi-stage machining. These new NX 8.5 CAM functions are particularly relevant to the type of parts commonly found in the machinery industry. The highly automated quality
inspection programming capability offered by NX CMM Inspection Programming has been added to NX 8.5 with measurement results analysis and display inside of NX. NX CMM extends the value of NX as a single, wide-ranging solution for manufacturing engineering. In addition, new cutting tool library
and CAM data management capabilities support faster NC programming and make it easier to access and re-use resource information, and ensure the use of the correct data from NC programming through to machining. NA
The Naval Architect October 2012
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