The new ‘component first’ concept introduced into fastener placement sees the focus shift from hole then part placement to one in which the user defines the fastener stack and the system generates the correct mounting features While this won’t have a huge impact on those working with smaller assemblies, for those who deal with 10,000s of parts, it’ll make life much more tolerable.
With NX 7.5 users can load, view, cross section/measure, create reference geometry from, and carry out parametric part updates, all without having to load the full heavy description of the data. This means that dramatically larger datasets can be opened and worked on in a much shorter time frame.Īs with all such technologies, there will always come a point when the complete description needs to be loaded up, but with each release this point is being pushed further away. Now the system generates the JT-style data on the fly and as a product model is opened it loads the lightweight representation as default. Previously, in order to take advantage of the technology inside NX the user needed to specifically create JT-variants of full geometry. It has also been used inside NX to display models in a lightweight format making it easier to load up large models on a standard desktop workstation. Siemens develops the JT format, which has seen widespread adoption in the automotive industry as a format for sharing data. Lightweight data and performanceīefore we get into the exciting modelling and product development updates, it’s worth a quick look at what has been going on under the hood.
This month saw the launch of the latest release, NX 7.5, following on from the 7.0 release in October 2009. The end result is a thoroughly modern system that’s not only applicable to a huge cross section of industry sectors, but is available on multiple platforms – it’s one of the few 3D systems to support Mac OS X and Linux. The new Freeform tools with Synchronous Technology allow users to manipulate not only prismatic geometry, but to also work freely with complex freeform, geometryĪlong this journey NX has been through some serious rework, on both the underlying architecture and the user experience.
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