What's New in NX 12

What’s new in NX 12 Modeling NX gives you more options than any other solution to create the geometry Next-generation solutions for design, you need to design your next-generation products. From Convergent simulation and manufacturing within Modeling to synchronous technology to a single software system surfacing, parametric modeling, and more, NX always has the right tool to get the job done right the first time. NX 12 for product design benefits Summary • Leverage convergent models in Building on its legacy of best-in-class Convergent Modeling downstream applications like MBD customer deployment readiness and Convergent Modeling is a game-chang- data preservation, the latest version of ing tool in NX that allows you to modify • Design lightweight parts and verify Siemens’ NX™ software and Simcenter and work with facet geometry the same designs for additive manufacturing 3D software (NX 12) delivers the next way you work with traditional CAD • Significant improvements in assembly generation of design, simulation and geometry. NX 12 builds on this founda- performance manufacturing solutions that enable tion with a number of significant companies to realize the value of the enhancements. NX 12 makes it easier to • New dedicated tools for process- digital twin in the end-to-end process. select the facet geometry you need, as specific design such as NX Animation The challenges of today’s market − from well as merge and divide facet faces. Designer and NX P&ID Designer increasingly complex products reliant New tools enable you to clean up a • Easier creation of math-based models on integrated electronics to ever- facet body for downstream use much supports generative design decreasing lead times − can only be met more easily than before. You can now with truly open, integrated software offset entire facet bodies or portions, • Automatically determine accurate that unites the best tools in a single and create chamfers and blends on tooling costs early in the design platform. them as well. Together, these enhance- phase ments extend the already-groundbreaking NX 12 for next-generation design • Improved ship design efficiency and capabilities of Convergent Modeling in versatility Summary NX to new heights. NX 12 for product design delivers major • Easier transition to drawingless work- enhancements in key areas, including flows with Convert to PMI Convergent ModelingTM, design for • Deeper integration with Teamcenter additive manufacturing and process- specific tools. The new capabilities not • Display multiple windows in a single only provide a new level of efficiency, NX session to better facilitate multi- they also enable designers to create tasking and cross-checking breakthrough products. Convergent Modeling helps you create optimized shapes. www.siemens.com/nx NX What’s new in NX 12 Simcenter 3D v12 benefits Design for Additive Manufacturing Surfacing • Reduce part weight and increase Additive manufacturing is more impor- Section surfacing in NX 12 is signifi- strength through new topology opti- tant than ever in product design. NX 12 cantly upgraded with a new lofting mization in NX Nastran gives you the tools to design light- engine that improves the quality and weight parts by filling a volume with a accuracy of your section surfaces, along • Bring legacy mesh data to life by con- lattice structure, helping you optimize with a 95 percent improvement in verting it into editable, Convergent your design for additive manufacturing, performance. In addition, customer- geometry reduce material use and meet weight driven improvements make surfacing • Simulate even more types of physics requirements without compromising more robust and powerful than ever, and complex assemblies with the strength or robustness of your improving update performance and advanced solutions for structural design. It’s also much easier to make making it easier to get the geometry dynamics, motion, acoustics and sure that your design is built right the you need. The surface flattening and more first time. By identifying build issues forming capability in NX 12 is enhanced early, you can get from design to build to give you more control over distor- • Solve models that experience large much faster. tion, making it easier to flatten complex deformations and contacts with shapes without distorting them in the expanded nonlinear solutions process. • Simulate composites for ply damage and manufacturing processes like curing • Perform industry-specific applications with enhanced workflows for air- frame, automotive, and spacecraft engineers NX 12 for Manufacturing benefits • Reduce machining cycle time by up to Lattice structures save weight and maintain strength. 60 percent with Adaptive Milling, a Section surface performance is improved by new high-speed roughing strategy Productivity 95 percent. NX 12 delivers a number of feature • Simplify 5-axis programming of com- Assemblies editing and creation enhancements that plex hollow and narrow features with NX 12 delivers a major improvement in drive productivity improvements. For the new Tube Milling assembly performance in managed example, you can now see the feature mode with Teamcenter. Extensive • Distribute, balance, program and sim- section direction when creating, edit- updates to the way assemblies are ulate operations over multiple ing, or replacing features. You now handled mean that they load much machines with NX Machining Line have the option to retain or delete child faster than ever before and use less Planner features when deleting features. This memory. Not only does this save time, gives you more control over how your • Automate processes using robots to it makes it easier to work with large features are linked, and makes it easier perform machining and pick-and- assemblies, and the smaller memory to change or update your model. place operations footprint means that you can load Drafts and blends are critical to creating larger models than ever before. In • Prepare complete 3D printing jobs for a finished, manufacturable design, but addition, your assembly geometry is a range of industrial powder bed they can sometimes cause issues when displayed during the load process. fusion printers updating or changing your model. In NX Please note that you will need • Print functional plastic parts easier, 12, these features have been made Teamcenter 11.3.0.1 or later to take faster and more accurately when HP considerably more robust, so they adapt advantage of these improvements. 3D printers are combined with NX better to changes and perform better than before, even with highly complex models. NX Mockup NX Animation Designer and equipment are used in both the There is a new dedicated design NX Animation Designer is a fully inte- detailed design phase and in manufac- mockup (DMU) application in NX 12. By grated tool that lets you animate almost turing. Real-time connectivity validation clearly separating the reviewing envi- any type of geometry, from sketches to also helps you make sure the design is ronment from the authoring part or assembly bodies, and even right the first time. Finally, the smart 2D environment, you can make changes to imported data. It’s easy to use: you diagram is used to create 3D routing the mockup without having to worry simply define what can and can’t move, components, saving time and transla- about modifying the base geometry. define the joints, couplers, and motors, tion. NX P&ID Designer helps you spend That means you can feel free to experi- put the movements into a timeline less time on the diagram and more time ment with your geometry and explore structure, and press “play.” Automatic on making sure you have the optimal solutions to find the optimal one. collision detection helps you find kine- design. Process-specific design matic issues with your assembly Process-specific design applications in without the need to build costly physi- NX include Animation Designer, P&ID cal prototypes, and because you can Designer, process automation, quickly change your geometry in the Mechatronics Concept Designer, joining same environment and run the anima- and welding, sheet metal, tooling tion again, you can do multiple design design, and shipbuilding. These areas iterations quickly, leading to higher- have undergone extensive updates to quality products. improve workflow efficiency and versatility. NX P&ID Designer offers easy design and Mentor Graphics integration validation. Mentor Graphics has recently become a Siemens business, and NX 12 integrates Process automation Mentor’s electrical design tools into NX. Process automation tools in NX 12 have These tools break down the barriers more options and power for helping between the ECAD and MCAD domains, you create advanced math-based mod- helping you collaborate more easily and els. Integration with Maple and work from a single set of data. Capital Symbolica means that you can not only NX Animation Designer helps you find kine- is an electrical system and wire harness matic issues early. drive NX expressions with worksheets, design tool, and in NX 12, it allows you but also include the properties of your to do electrical design work in the NX NX P&ID Designer NX model in the worksheets, for bi- environment, including live cross-prob- NX P&ID Designer software is a 2D directional communication. The new ing between logical and harness models piping and instrumentation diagram- “body by equation” feature lets you take and harness space reservation. ming tool that helps you create advantage of the 3D plotting functions Xpedition enables cross-discipline PCB functional or logical designs of piping in the math-based tools to create a design in NX. This means that you can and instrumentation systems. It is easy convergent body that remains associa- embed your electronic design into your to use, with drag-and-drop component tive to the worksheet. This capability mechanical layout with the ability to and pipe placement and editing, and ensures that there is no deviation from view, markup, and cross-probe from automatic placement of things like the shape defined by the equations, and either side.

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