The latest update in NX™ software brings significant advancements in Advanced Modeling, focusing on three key areas: Advanced Shape Design, NX Lattice Designer, and Algorithmic Modeling. These tools allow users to create complex shapes with precision, enhance design efficiency, and reduce manual iterations through automation. Released in December 2023, the features aim to streamline workflows, making it easier for designers to produce innovative and intricate designs.
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Advanced Modeling - Advanced Shape Design
Streamlining 3D modeling with user-driven enhancements
Advanced Modeling – Advancements in 3D modeling have introduced user-driven enhancements, particularly in curve commands, leading to a more efficient design process. By integrating user feedback, these updates boost modeling speed and consistency, allowing designers to create detailed models with greater ease and precision. The improvements emphasize smoother workflows and robust results, reflecting the ongoing focus on optimizing user experience in dynamic modeling environments.
Time-saving features and precision tools for advanced modeling
To help streamline the design process, NX introduced features like Lock Aspect Ratio and improved character spacing in the Text command. These updates remove unnecessary manual steps, ensuring both precision and consistency while saving valuable time. The enhancements focus on optimizing workflows by delivering more efficient tools for managing textual elements in your designs – Advanced Modeling.
Real-time quality assurance
To help streamline the design process, NX introduced features like Lock Aspect Ratio and improved character spacing in the Text command. These updates remove unnecessary manual steps, ensuring both precision and consistency while saving valuable time. The enhancements focus on optimizing workflows by delivering more efficient tools for managing textual elements in your designs.
Enhanced customization and clarity
Once your part is progressing well, customization doesn’t stop there. You now have the ability to personalize curve endpoint displays with custom colors and appearance settings, which can be applied across all visible curves simultaneously. This upgrade not only boosts visual clarity but also makes it easier to distinguish different model elements within your design.
Innovative curve on surface options
We’re excited to introduce a new Line option for Curve – Advanced Modeling on Surface that includes two projection methods: Normal to Surface and Geodesic. These methods offer modelers highly accurate and efficient curves suited to different modeling needs. The Geodesic option, in particular, calculates the shortest path on a surface, making it a powerful addition to surface modeling by improving both precision and ease of use in complex designs.
Advanced Modeling with Lattice Designer
In engineering and design, advanced methods for creating lattice structures are transforming material and product development. These customizable lattices provide unmatched flexibility, allowing designers to tailor structures to specific applications, significantly enhancing efficiency and versatility.
Breakthrough with unit volume conformal lattice
The introduction of the new unit volume conformal lattice type represents a significant advancement in this field. This technique employs Simcenter 3D – Advanced Modeling hexahedral volumetric meshing to fill a boundary volume with a lattice, smoothly adapting a unit cell to fit the mesh. This ensures that the final structure is not only robust but also perfectly matched to the volume it occupies.
Enhanced triangular lattice type
Enhancements in user interface design have significantly improved the Triangular lattice type. This updated approach merges the advantages of Surface and Tetrahedral lattice types. It can create a lattice on surfaces by converting mesh facet edges into rods, or it can fill a boundary volume with a lattice that uses these rods on the outer layer while integrating tetrahedron structures inside for added stability.
Customization and control
The final lattice enhancement to highlight is the improved control over lattice orientation, which allows for precise alignment with specific functional requirements. This increased level of customization ensures that the lattice performs optimally under the intended conditions, making it a valuable addition to your design toolkit.
Algorithmic Modeling
Bridge Curve
The Bridge Curve node in algorithmic modeling is essential for incorporating bridge curves into shapes, facilitating the creation of closed sections. It is particularly effective for seamlessly connecting curves and works in conjunction with other nodes to establish robust design rules. When working on complex curve-based geometries, this node plays a critical role in your design process.
Offset region
Advanced Modeling – Next, let’s discuss the Offset Region node. This node can offset closed areas within curves on flat surfaces or 3D objects, effectively creating side walls. It is designed to detect nested loops in curves, which is particularly useful for lettering and similar patterns. An optional feature helps clear up any ambiguity, ensuring that the result matches the type of the original geometry. This node simplifies and accelerates the process of creating raised patterns from curves and has been enhanced for improved text placement on objects.
2 & 3 Face blends
The new 2-Face and 3-Face Blends nodes have revolutionized the way blending details are integrated into design rules. The 3-Face Blend node efficiently blends two or three groups of faces, accommodating multiple connected faces, a single sheet, or just one face. The resulting blend can be a sheet, solid, or multiple bodies, depending on the input. On the other hand, the 2-Face Blend node can blend faces from different objects, potentially producing several outcomes. These nodes are particularly valuable for designing patterns in styling and industrial design, significantly reducing the time spent on manual blending.
Conclusion
As we wrap up our review of the December 2023 NX release, it’s evident that your feedback on Advanced Modeling – Advanced Shape Design, NX Lattice Designer, and Algorithmic Modeling is driving us to push the limits of design and engineering. Our ongoing release cycle fosters constant innovation and efficiency enhancements, enabling you to surpass expectations and engineer remarkable products.
