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.