NX 8 for Simulation
NX 8 introduces over 200 new capabilities to both NX CAE and NX Nastran. These enhancements to NX’s simulation technology can help you to rapidly build, update and simulate analysis models, make smarter engineering decisions and deliver better products faster.
NX CAE: What’s New in NX 8
NX CAE is a modern, high-end analysis environment that you can use to deliver simulation results faster and have a direct impact on product decisions. For NX 8, NX CAE introduces productivity enhancements in the following key areas:
- Simulation environment and geometry foundation improvements reduce the time you spend working with geometry and speed analysis modeling.
- Multi-discipline simulation and optimization enhancements broaden NX CAE’s solutions to include new topology optimization and multi-physics analyses.
- Systems-level simulation improvements streamline finite element assembly management and expand high performance computing capacity for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis.
- HD-PLM capabilities, like new simulation “results measures”, allow you to tie results directly to requirements so your team can make smarter decisions.
NX Nastran 8
NX Nastran is the finite element solver that forms the backbone of all NX for Simulation structural analysis solutions. The NX Nastran solver scales from the enterprise level to the desktop, and is used by the highest level analysts through design engineers.
NX Nastran 8 expands upon its capabilities in these core areas:
- Discipline and physical domain extensions broaden the types of analysis that you can do with NX Nastran, such as multi-physics thermo-mechanical solutions and nonlinear analysis.
- Computational performance and numerical accuracy improvements help you efficiently solve large analysis problems through high-performance distributed memory parallel (DMP) and shared memory parallel (SMP) computing methods.
- Ease of modeling and engineering workflow enhancements, like edge-to-face glue connections or new solid composite elements, help simplify modeling and solution setup.
