Siemens Center Case Studies

Business Challenges

  • Develop a software tool kit for the visualization, generation and accessibility analysis of support structures in Additive Manufacturing for undergraduate and graduate research and education
  • Develop a course curriculum that is more relevant to design guidelines for Additive Manufacturing

Keys to Success

  • Educating undergraduate and graduate students about different types of support structures, how to create them within Siemens NX, and accessibility analysis for post-processing
  • Creating a software kit that acts as both an educational tool as well as something that can be used for commercial applications

Results

  • Created three software modules for support structure visualization, support structure generation, and accessibility and setup analysis.

Business Challenges

  • Knowledge base of DFAM guidelines within a CAD platform
  • Formulate efficient algorithms within Siemens NX framework to identify such geometric features
  • Teach college students with DFAM guidelines during the design phase

Keys to Success

  • Consolidated toolset for DFAM analysis integrated seamlessly within the CAD environment of Siemens NX
  • Using NXOpen API standard functions for CAD based geometry analysis

Results

  • Reduce process development cycle time & rework, enabling faster design iterations
  • Teach students from various levels the design guidelines for additive manufacturing

Business Challenges

  • Single knowledge base to increase the manufacturability of the designs.
  • Formulate efficient algorithms within Siemens NX framework to identify such geometric features
  • Consolidated tool that allows designers to identify best build orientation based on PI taking into consideration DFAM and other parameters.

Keys to Success

  • Consolidated toolset for DFAM analysis integrated seamlessly within the CAD environment of Siemens NX. Using NXOpen API standard functions for CAD based geometry analysis.

Results

  • Reduce process development cycle time & rework, enabling faster design iterations
  • Teach students from various levels the design guidelines for additive manufacturing

Business Challenges

  • Support students in understanding the geometric modeling process
  • Support students in understanding the influence of input parameters (points and vectors) on curves and surfaces.

Keys to Success

  • Create a virtualization tool to demonstrate the theoretical methods step by step.
  • Teach students the transformation matrix of rotation, reflection and scaling.
  • Teach students the construction of Hermite curve and Hermite surface with corner points and tangent vectors.
  • Teach students the construction of Bezier curve and Bezier surface with control points.

Results

  • Created the digital twin of the theoretical methods taught in classroom within Siemens NX.
  • Created seven NX based modules to rotate, reflect and scale parts, construct Hermite curve, Hermite surface, Bezier curve and Bezier surface.