This is the latest episode in our What’s New In NX Software Series. This segment will explore the latest capabilities of NX December 2023. These features are designed to elevate the design workflow to new heights.
Our spotlight today focuses on powerful tools to tool empowers you to create intricate and innovative shapes with precision with Advanced Shape Design. Algorithmic Modeling will be used to reduce the number of design iterations and save time with NX Lattice designer. Continue reading to learn more about advanced modeling.
Advanced Shape Design
Streamlining 3D modeling with user-driven enhancements
We’ve made major advancements in the dynamic world 3D modeling by incorporating feedback from users into our enhancements to curve commands. These improvements have greatly improved the design process. You can now create robust models at a newfound pace and consistency.
Time-saving features and precision tools for advanced modeling
How can we save you time during the design process. We’ve simplified workflows with a Lock Aspect ratio feature, and refined character spacing in the Text command. This eliminates unnecessary manual steps. It not only guarantees accuracy and uniformity, but it also saves time.
Real-time quality assurance
Having time-saving features is great, but if the end-product is not what you had in mind, then it really doesn’t save you any design time. To help you engineer more efficiently, modelers now have the power of on-screen maximum deviation indicators for Composite Curve and 3D Offset Curve when using the Advanced Fit Curve option. This instant feedback mechanism enables swift adjustments, ensuring curves of the highest caliber.
Enhanced customization and clarity
Now that you’re happy with the progress of your part, the options don’t just end there. Customization options have been taken to the next level. You can now personalize curve endpoint displays in terms of appearance and color and apply these preferences across all visible curves at once. This not only enhances visual clarity but also simplifies the differentiation of model elements.
Innovative curve on surface options
We’re thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking Line option for Curve on Surface, featuring two projection methods: Normal to surface and Geodesic. These methods provide modelers with the most precise and efficient curves, tailored to their specific needs. The Geodesic option calculates the shortest path on the surface, marking a significant leap forward in surface modeling.
Advanced Modeling with Lattice Designer
In the realm of engineering and design, innovative methods for crafting lattice structures are modernizing the way we approach material and product development. These unique lattice structures can be tailored for any application, which offers you, the user, unparalleled versatility and design efficiency.
Breakthrough with unit volume conformal lattice
The introduction of the new unit volume conformal lattice type marks a significant advancement in this field. This method fills a boundary volume with a lattice by utilizing Simcenter 3D hexahedral volumetric meshing, seamlessly morphing a unit cell to conform to the mesh. This ensures that the final structure is not only strong but also perfectly adapted to the volume it occupies.
Enhanced triangular lattice type
Improvements in user interface design have led to the enhancement of the Triangular lattice type. This approach combines the best aspects of Surface and Tetrahedral lattice types. It creates a lattice on faces by transforming mesh facet edges into rods, or it can fill a boundary volume with a lattice that uses these rods on the exterior while incorporating tetrahedron structures for stability.
Customization and control
Now, the last lattice enhancement to discuss is around greater control over lattice orientation, allowing you to align the structure with specific functional requirements. This level of customization ensures that the lattice will perform optimally under the desired conditions, making it a powerful tool in your arsenal.
Algorithmic Modeling
Bridge Curve
The Bridge Curve node in algorithmic modeling is crucial for adding bridge curves to shapes, which helps to form closed sections. This is best used for connecting curves smoothly and works well with other nodes to set strong rules. If you are creating complex curve-based geometry, this node is vital to your design process.
Offset region
The next node to discuss is the Offset Region node and it can offset closed areas within curves on flat surfaces or 3D objects, creating side walls. It’s smart enough to find nested loops in curves, often seen in lettering. It has an optional feature to clear up any confusion, making sure the result is the same type as the original. This node makes it easier and faster to create raised patterns from curves and has been improved for better text placement on objects.
2 & 3 Face blends
The new 2 & 3 Face Blends nodes have changed how blending details are added to rules. They help blend two or three groups of faces together. The 3-face Blend can handle multiple connected faces, a single sheet, or one face, and the result can be a sheet, solid, or multiple bodies, depending on what’s used. The 2-Face Blend can work with faces from different objects, possibly leading to several results. These nodes are very helpful for designing patterns in styling and industrial design, saving a lot of time that would go into making blends by hand.
