Transforming the process of innovation
NX
Promoting knowledge-sharing and the establishment of best practice methodologies
Siemens UGS PLM Software provides solutions that enable a CAE analyst to author guidelines that will keep a designer user (with limited CAE experience) within a safe route through the CAE environment. This will ensure that the end user obtains realistic and reliable results and frees up the CAE expert to carry out the more difficult and complex work.
- NX Simulation Process Studio : This is a graphical toolkit for creating CAE best-practice wizards, such as the NX Strength Wizard, which can be customized to meet customer-specific CAE processes and design analysis requirements.
- Wizards allow companies to create and customize specific process wizards to meet their digital product development requirements. Wizards help set new standards in fast and simple structural analysis for non-experts in simulation technology by providing users with clear and concise guidance to help guide them through five quick and simple simulation process steps to safely analyze their designs using finite element analysis (FEA).
- NX Optimization Wizard: This is an automated CAE design exploration tool that helps solve complex engineering problems quicker and with more confidence. Based on a step-by-step "wizard" input paradigm, the Optimization Wizard provides an easy, intuitive way to set up a shape optimization run on a solid body.
First the designer defines the objectives (such as minimized material usage), then identifies design variables (such as feature dimensions) and constraints (such as a constant enclosed volume) that will be used in the optimization. Optimization Wizard can use any variables and expressions associated with NX models, and supports Knowledge Fusion objects as goals, variables or constraints. Optimization Wizard first determines how the design responds to changes in each variable, then filters, balances and trades off variable values to arrive at a design that best meets the objective within the specified constraints. Once set up, the optimization can be included as a feature within the model’s feature tree. This ensures that the CAE model will remain in an optimized state, no matter what detailed design changes need to be made.
Optimization Wizard gives designers a fast and simple method for arriving at an optimal design solution based on multiple engineering variables and constraints. To optimize the design, the wizard automatically iterates through various design alternatives, balancing variables to determine which best meets the specified design objective
- NX Stress Wizard : The Stress Wizard allows user to evaluate the safety factor of a single solid body to ensure that the yield strength of the material is not exceeded. This wizard can be run in the Modeling, Design Simulation, or Advanced Simulation applications.
- NX Vibration Wizard : The Vibration Wizard can be used analyze a component's dynamic properties to ensure that the design usage of the component will not cause undesirable vibration. The wizard allows the user to view a single solid body's mode shapes at its fundamental frequencies. The user can then compare the natural frequencies to the operational frequencies of an anticipated load to predict how the component will respond under that load.
