Siemens PLM adds to NXT s/w

Company adds functionality throughout all aspects of its integrated CAD/CAM/CAE solution

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division today announced the latest enhancements added to NXT software, the company's integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution.

Presented at The World Exposition Shanghai China 2010 (Expo 2010), the latest enhancements to NX 7 include significant new functionality throughout all aspects of the software, as the company claims.

"Our new HD-PLM technology framework, delivers a visually intuitive environment in NX to enhance the decision making process throughout product development and create significant value for our customers and our industry," said Joan Hirsch, vice president of Product Design Solutions, Siemens PLM Software. "The value of this release is further magnified not only by the strength of its many enhancements, but also for the balanced level of new functionality added throughout the software's various product design, analysis and part manufacturing modules, which can produce end user productivity gains of as much as 80 per cent."

"With the launch of the high definition 3D (HD3D) environment announced last year and enhanced in the latest release of NX, Siemens PLM Software begins to execute on its vision to instill HD-PLM technology into all of its enterprise solutions. HD3D unites the powers of NX and Teamcenter under the HD-PLM technology framework to visually and intuitively deliver the information necessary to understand, collaborate, and make decisions in a globally distributed product development environment. HD3D delivers on the four tenets of HD-PLM with a product development decision support and analytics solution that personalizes the user's experience by placing them in the proper context, assists proactively with task accomplishment to help make collaborative decisions, clarifies the user's experience by presenting information intuitively and validates user decisions against established rationale.

Further, new rapid design tools accelerate 2D profile creation and positioning, automatically inferring constraints and modeling intent. As result, the time needed to create models from scratch can be reduced by up to 50 per cent. The integration of synchronous technology with NX freeform modeling dramatically alters the advanced shaping process by making it easy to work with any geometry, including imported models. Integrated design and CAE productivity is further enhanced in NX 7 with new model preparation workflows that assist users working with complex geometry, meshing thin-walled parts, enhancing beam and bolt modeling, and much more, adds the company.

"The combination of the integrated CAM and CMM capabilities in NX represent one of the world's most sophisticated software solutions for part manufacturing. NX 7 further redefines part manufacturing productivity with the introduction of two new applications that put the user in the context of a specific programming task, dramatically reducing the time needed to program complex turbo-machinery components, and maximizing the efficiency of offline coordinate measuring machine (CMM) programming."