What’s New: Siemens NX 2512

What’s New: Siemens NX 2512

Das neueste Release von Siemens NX überzeugt mit wichtigen Verbesserungen zur effizienteren Konstruktion. Hier die wichtigsten Updates:

1 ) Fundamentals

Tooltips for dialog boxes

New Group enhancement

When you use the New Group command, you can now include edges in your group and use Selection Intent rules to intelligently select edges, faces, bodies and curves for your group.

Also, in the Wave Geometry Linker command and the Wave Interface Linker command, the new Copy Group Containing Object option replaces the Copy Group Containing Face option. When you create linked geometry and linked interfaces from a source part and include groups associated with selected objects by setting this option, the faces, edges, and bodies in the groups are also included in the linked group that is created in the site part.

Collaborating real-time on designs

You can collaborate in real-time to work simultaneously with multiple designers on the same part or assembly in Designcenter X NX.

You can host a meeting, and other participants can join in. Everyone can then work collaboratively on the assembly or do design reviews together, and see the impact of changes immediately. This is also useful when you have common interfaces in your design, where multiple Designcenter X NX users must interact with a single part.

The following describes a typical workflow for such a meeting, when you use Teamcenter X for your built-in data management.

1. As the host, you check out the assembly from Teamcenter X and create a meeting using the Create Live Share Meeting command. Designcenter X NX uses the name of the assembly as the default name of the meeting. Designcenter X NX also automatically copies the meeting link to the clipboard.
2. You share the meeting link with the participants.
3. These participants join the meeting using the Join Live Share Meeting command.
4. You, along with the participants, work on the assembly. A participant can leave the meeting and rejoin. When a participant rejoins or joins a meeting late, Designcenter X NX refreshes the meeting session and syncs the latest updates to the part.
5. Whenever someone makes a change to the assembly, Designcenter X NX syncs the updates so that everyone in the meeting can view the latest updates.
6. After the changes to the assembly are completed, the participants leave the meeting using the Leave Live Share Meeting command.

You, as the host, can leave the meeting and rejoin while other participants continue to collaborate in the meeting.

7. You, as the host, must save the updates and check in the part to Teamcenter X.

As a host, you can view participants using their avatars on the top right corner of the Ribbon bar. You can click an avatar to see more details about a participant. You can also use the Manage Live Share Meeting command to join a meeting, copy the meeting ID, or to end the meeting.

As a host, you can also get a brief summary of the parts that have been modified in the meeting along with the participants who have modified the parts. To do this, in the Manage Live Share Meeting dialog box, use the Show Meeting Report option. Designcenter X NX displays the information in the Information window.

2. Design (CAD)

Sketch

Persistent relations in Mechanism Mode

Designcenter NX now creates persistent relations more often when you sketch with Mechanism Mode turned on. Relations are displayed, or inferred, when you:

• Create curves.
• Drag and snap curves.
• Edit curves with Make commands.
• Correct mistakes found by Sketch Checking.

New gesture for switching between Line and Arc commands

To quickly switch between the Line and Arc commands, hold Ctrl and the left mouse button and drag.

Designcenter NX infers a tangent when you switch from Line to Arc within the angled region, which is +/- 45° from the tangent direction of the previous line.

While sketching, if the preview of the line is going forward relative to the previous line, then Designcenter NX creates a preview of the arc in the same direction.

If the preview of the line is going backward relative to the previous line, then Designcenter NX creates the preview of the arc in the same direction.

3. Modeling

Make Ruled

Use the Make Ruled command to convert a solid face that has a double curvature to a ruled surface.

You can select a target face and a spine curve for the ruled face. The spine curve aligns the isoparametric curves of the ruled surface to the intersections of the face boundary sections and planes that are perpendicular to the spine curve.

Aero Rib enhancement

When you use the Aero Rib command, you can align the top and bottom of the rib with a selected face or datum plane. To do this, in the Height group, set the Dimension Type list to Simple. This is helpful when the rib is not perpendicular to the selected faces.

Aero Shelf enhancements

Designcenter NX now displays warnings when you use the Aero Shelf command and extend the shelf beyond the geometric boundaries of the flange skin face. Designcenter NX highlights the extended portion of the face as you are creating the feature.

Blend Pocket enhancements

You can now blend pockets that have multiple steps, and add cutter standoff clearance.

When you set the Angled Wall option to either the Cut Floor and Swarf Wall option or the Swarf Cut Wall and Floor option, Designcenter NX now lets you specify clearances for the wall and floor.

You must set the Tool Type option to End Mill.

Hole enhancements

When you create a hole series and select a target body for the start or end hole, the Start Hole option now includes Depth Limit options. The Hole Series type is also enhanced to improve Delay Link Update behavior for linked hole features.

Boolean enhancements

You can use a new customer default to determine whether or not tool and target bodies are optional when you create boolean features, Unite, Subtract, or Intersect.

This lets you select empty feature groups for the tool and target bodies. This is useful when you create part templates. You can add bodies to the feature groups as needed. This option is stored with the boolean feature and cannot be modified in edit mode.

You can also create intersection operations where the bodies do not intersect.

Part Families enhancement

The Part Family and Reuse Library is enhanced. You can now define different body colors for each part family member.

Pattern Layout enhancements

The new Axial pattern layout enables you to create cylindrical or conical patterns.

The Axial layout is available when using the Pattern Feature, Pattern Geometry, Pattern Face, and Pattern Component (non-associative only) commands.

The Pitch Distance in the axial direction can be measured either along the specified cone angle, or along the directional axis.

4. Assemblies

Multi-configuration design enhancements

Enhancements to multi-configuration design make it easier for you to understand and control the data in your design workset.

The enhancements include the following.

A new multi-configuration design workset icon  helps you determine whether your design workset contains multi-configuration or multi-product assemblies. This is useful because design worksets are used for both multi-configuration design and multi-product design.

In the first column of the design workset, non-primary inserted products and their components now display a  symbol overlaid on their existing icons to show that this data cannot be modified. There are many icons that are visible in the first column depending on the load state, suppressed state, part, assembly, visibility state, etc. This is visible, when applicable, in all of the existing states, and reminds you that non-primary products are for reference only.

Mass properties enhancements

The table in the Mass Properties panel has three new columns: Actual, Estimated, and Budget. You can use the Budget column to set a goal for parts that currently contain no geometry.

When a part has a Budget property, the Mass Status column displays . When you create geometry, the mass that you specify using the From Design option takes effect. You do not need to select the Use Precedence for Calculation check box in the Mass Properties Options dialog box.

Teamcenter uses the Weight and Balance Management solution to store mass properties. In Active Workspace you can visualize, edit, and define mass properties if you are a weight engineer on the list that is controlled by the Access Control List option. You can synchronize the updates with Designcenter NX. You can control the source precedence hierarchy , User Defined column names, and their column order in Teamcenter. Other engineers and designers can view, but not edit, mass properties.

Assembly constraints enhancements

Enhancements to assembly constraints include restoring the ability to move components by constraints.

Other enhancements include the following:

• The existing Delay Assembly Constraint Updates  and Update Assembly Constraints  commands can now be opened from the Ribbon bar.
• The existing Find in Navigator  command is now also available when you right-click components and constraints in the graphics window.
• Problems that sometimes made constraint dialog box icons in the Ribbon bar insensitive, are now fixed.
• Components that are copied and pasted are now placed in the position of the original component when the Resolve Constraints dialog box is not needed.
• Constraints that fail to solve are not created.
• A new Show Constraints of Component  command displays only the constraints that are related to the selected components.

Advanced Assemblies enhancements

You can use the new Advanced Assemblies application to easily access all Advanced Assemblies commands including Simplify Assembly and Linked Exterior.

Also, when you enable component groups in the Assembly Navigator, Designcenter NX no longer takes an Advanced Assemblies license. It only takes a license when you create or edit a component group.

Enhancements to multi-user design notifications

Designcenter X NX now dynamically updates the list of avatars that you can see in the top right corner of the Ribbon bar.

You can also:

• View the avatar of a user to check if their status is online, offline, away, or busy.
• Initiate a group chat on Microsoft Teams. To do this, on the contact card of a user, click Join Group Chat.
• Copy a link to a part or assembly and send it to other users. The link opens the part in your built-in data management. For example, if you post the link in a group chat, other users in the chat can click the link to open the part in Active Workspace. To copy the link, in the Assembly Navigator, right-click the part and click Copy Link.

Designcenter X NX displays the avatars of the following:

• Users who are collaborating with you in real-time.
• Users who are working on a part that you follow.
• Users who have checked out a part that you follow.

Designcenter X NX sorts avatars by prioritizing users currently in a real-time collaboration session, followed by others based on their time of first appearance.

To indicate real-time collaboration, Designcenter X NX displays a blue border around your graphics window and a ring around the avatars of your collaborators. When a user ends a collaboration session, their avatar remains visible for five minutes. This delay allows other participants time to react to the conclusion of the session.

5. Drafting

Import Attributes

The new Import Attributes dialog box lets you import object attributes and part attributes into tables in the Drafting application. This feature is available in both native Designcenter NX and Teamcenter Integration for Designcenter NX.

In the Import Attributes dialog box, you can now:

• Independently filter object attributes and part attributes. You can choose a part or object from the graphics window or the Assembly Navigator to view associated attributes for import into the table.
• Search for attributes using their titles.
• Import multiple attributes into a table simultaneously.

As you import attributes, the table automatically expands by adding columns and rows to fit the imported data.

Annotation alignment enhancements

You can now stack and align Drafting and PMI annotations and dimensions from a shortcut menu.

When you select two or more annotations or dimensions, you can right-click and choose one of the following options:

• Align
  • Horizontally 
  • Vertically 
• Stack From
  • Below 
  • Right 
  • Left 

The last object selected is considered the parent and all previously selected objects are stacked or aligned to it.

Only valid stack options and alignment options are shown in the context menu.

6. Sheet Metal

Flange enhancements

You can now create and modify flanges using geometric reference points, called keypoints, to define the length of the flange. A keypoint can be a midpoint, an endpoint, or the center.

To do this, you must select a single base edge and then specify a reference point using the new Keypoint option in the Flange dialog box.

You can select keypoints from:

• Sheet metal body
• Solid body
• Surface
• Curve
• Sketch

When you select a keypoint and do not vary other flange parameters such as the angle, Designcenter NX:

• Calculates the length of the flange based on the selected keypoint.
• Maintains associativity between the flange and the keypoint.

If you move a keypoint, Designcenter NX automatically updates the length of the flange as per the new position of the keypoint.

As before, you can also create a flange using a specific value for the flange length. To do this, use the new Value option in the Flange dialog box.

Lightening Cutout enhancements

You can now create lightening cutouts using different material standards for both User Defined and Hole type cutouts. This provides more customization options and more flexibility during creation of cutouts.

To do this, you must update the sheet metal material standards file to version four and the feature table to version two. You must also add a new column called Feature_type with a property that is set to hide. This column indicates the type of the lightening cutout.

You must configure Designcenter NX to use the updated material standards and feature types.

You can define the parameters of lightening cutouts in the material standards file using one of the following.

• Formulas
• Combination of formulas and parameters
• Formulas with global parameters
• Numerical values

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