NX 11 (?) Release Date and Expected Improvements 1

[soheyl81]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if Siemens is planning to release a newer version of NX (11?) any time soon, and if so, what are the improvements that we can expect to see?

Thanks

 

[PrintScaffold]

just curious, but why would one want to sweep a solid body?

For instance, to get a motion envelope and build a collision-free casing around it.

http://www.cadroad.com

 

[Toost]

There are many shapes which 2D sections cannot produce. This is an extremely complex operation depending on how far one takes it. Imagine for example a cube moving along a straight line, but tumbling. Faces and edges will appear/ disappear etc. The most common request is probably helical drills / mills which are very difficult to reproduce using a 2D section, if at all possible.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[Rob_N]

Thanks Toost,now i can picture it

 

[Toost]

Printscaffold; :
"I'm not sure I uderstood this. Does it meant that Sweep Body is an option in the Sweep Along Guide tool?"
No, it will most probably not be a new option in an existing feature.

when you develop code, what you don't want is that the existing features/ software suddenly gets a lot of new bugs. ( NX is today far more than a million lines of code...) You want as much as possible to isolate the code which is new and therefore needs thorough testing/ bugfixing. Since the existing features are un-touched, you don't have to test these in every new release.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[SDETERS]

There are many things you can do with sweep solid body. Sweep an end mill along a helical curves. But this part is not just a simple end mill. It is a ball nosed end mill that is tapered. At the current time there are 15 or so steps that will produce this feature. If we get sweep solid body I could see three or so steps. A lot easier to control parametrically.

 

[capnhook]

Promises, promises.......


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[looslib]

Discussing beta items is prohibited by your beta license agreement.
This is especially true in a public forum like this one!

What gets included in the official release of NX11 will depend on beta testing results, released coding of the module and documentation.


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[JohnRBaker]

For the record, the name of the proposed NEW function will be 'Swept Volume'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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