These new NX 8.5 CAM functions are particularly relevant to the type of parts commonly found in the machinery industry. Also new are functions to support and automate multi-part and multi-stage machining. Customers working with the initial introduction of this solids-based approach to the programming of prismatic shaped parts have reported excellent ease of use and faster programming times.
NX 8.5 includes the full release of Volume Based 2.5D Milling. The new version, NX Nastran 8.5, further increases the types of solutions that can be performed, along with a number of computational performance and engineering workflow improvements, such as new edge-to-edge glue contact and glue connections. The release of NX 8.5 for Simulation also includes the release of a new version of the widely used NX NASTRAN software, a premier FEA solver for computational performance, accuracy, reliability and scalability. NX 8.5 also includes improvements in simulation modeling, structural, thermal, flow, motion and multi-physics analyses to help prepare more accurate analysis models faster, and speed solution time by as much as 25 percent. For example, new optimization tools such as NX Shape Optimization, suggest specific, detailed improvements to an existing design to reduce stress concentrations. NX 8.5 includes new simulation enhancements that help development teams more efficiently engineer products.
NX 8.5 continues to leverage synchronous technology, a Siemens PLM Software innovation that combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with the precise control of dimension driven design, to provide designers and engineers a better way to create and edit designs. NX 8.5 also includes new capabilities for feature modeling, sheet metal design, freeform modeling, validation checking and drafting. For example the new Emboss Body command requires fewer steps when combining a region of faces from another intersecting solid or sheet body.
In addition, new design commands help shorten design cycle times by up to 30 percent. Streamlined workflows and an enhanced user experience help improve productivity, minimize input, and reduce the effort required to accomplish design tasks. NX 8.5 delivers a wide range of new and enhanced design functionality, to help improve efficiency and reduce design time.