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Powerful New Engineering Math Capability: NX MapleTaylor Anderson

NX Product Manager

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Our Customers Use Advanced Math Everywhere

• Initial product sizing calculations

• Early product performance predictions

• Early uncertainty analysis around requirements

• Distilling physical test data or simulation results to

compare against product requirements

• Standardized/Endorsed computation templates

• Preservation of engineering decision-making

• Correlating simulation results with test results

• Converting simulation results for use as input to a subsequent simulation

• Finance, Operations, Engineering, ….



Increasing Product Complexity

“Design for Six Sigma: Process,

Service and Product Design”

“Embedded Computing” 2013

“In the absence of a standardized tool, engineers will use their own

tool of choice to perform calculations…creating islands of information that is impossible to manage and maintain.”

Section Manager, Procter & Gamble

“Our current processes work well but will soon break down due to

increasing complexity.”

Senior Manager Powertrain, Toyota

“Many CAE managers view engineering calculations as a critical part

of the product design process, and the most poorly managed.”

CAE Manager, JPL

“…time and budgets are lost due to calculation errors, reinventing

wheels and poor communications.”

Engineering Manager, Delphi Corporation



The Challenge

Calculations done in an ad-hoc way:

• On paper or notebooks

• Unmanaged spreadsheets

• Scripting routines

The implications:

• Difficult for non-author to decipher

• Knowledge not retained within organization

• Difficult to maintain for future applications

• Difficult unit management



NX MaplePowered by Maple

NX Maple is a new SPLM Product

that allows you to:

� Accelerate simple or complex engineering

calculations, including units, in a format that is easily recognizable by

all engineers and analysts

� Keep critical engineering calculations under

revision control within the Teamcenter PLM environment

� Easily connect math equations with existing PLM investments – including driving NX

geometric designs in novel ways

Mock-up image of future vision

The heart of engineering has always been well-documented math-driven decisions.



NX MaplePowered by Maple

All of the Maple Math Engine and Capability

Siemens PLM UI Simplification for Industrial Users

Siemens PLM Cosmetic UI “Skinning”

NX (Parameter and Geometry) Integrations

Teamcenter (Managed Mode) Integration

NX Maple

+



NX: Next Generation Design

Most Productive Modeling Environment

Generative Design & Integrated Validation

Design for Additive Manufacturing

Collaborative Design Management

Immersive Design

Multi-disciplinary Design

Flexible Product

Development

Platform



Comprehensive Mathematics

Powered by Maple

NX Maple contains comprehensive, in-depth

math functionality.

• Over 5000 mathematical functions

• Virtually every area of mathematics

covered, including: calculus, integral and

discrete transforms, linear algebra,

statistics, signal processing, graph theory,

differential geometry, linear programming,

optimization, physics, …

• Highly efficient numeric solvers, supporting

unlimited precision calculations

• Leading-edge symbolic algorithms for equation

derivation, simplification, and exact, analytic

solutions

Smarter Documents

HPC

Connectivity

Mathematics

Applications

5000+

Functions

Equation

Solving

Clickable

Math

Engineering

Differential

Equations

Physics

Statistics

Maple

Programmin

g Language

High Impact

Data

Visualization

NX and

Teamcenter

integration

Automatic

Parallelism

Multi-

Threaded

Computing

Interactive

Assistants

CAD, DB,

NAG, HTTP

Connectivity

eBook

Publishing Code

Generation

Symbolic

&

Numeric

Math



Four Biggest NX Maple Use Cases

1. Pure NX Maple Users (within a PLM environment)

2. Users who primarily use NX Maple, occasionally pulling a value from an NX model

3. Users who primarily use NX, occasionally embedding an NX Maple calculation mid-design

4. NX or NX Maple user, generating engineering reports (output from models or worksheets)



NX Maple Trial Experience

Room number 30410 (Wing 3, 4th Floor)

NX Maple is a powerful tool that simplifies your ability to integrate and access advanced math

inside your designs. NX Maple helps to connect your engineering knowledge to your design

geometry to ensure design consistency based on engineering best practices.

Drop in any time with Taylor Anderson and/or Richard Bush:Tuesday: 8:00 to 17:00

Wednesday: 8:00 to 11:00

Join us this week for a hands-on

“Getting Started with NX Maple” session!



Technical Application Deployment

NX Maple “Components”

Graphical “component” controls for

adjusting input values and understanding

the output of calculations add interactivity

and turn “worksheets” into technical

applications that can be deployed across

your company.

� Rapid deployment of technical

applications to share with co-workers

� Deploy custom solutions company wide

� Reduce time lost due to learning new

software & make users productive from

day one



NX Maple: Open and Connected

Easily integrated with other tools using a wide range of

connectivity features.

� Code generation for Visual Basic, MATLAB®, Java, C,

C#, Fortran, Perl, Python, JavaScript, and R code

� Internet connectivity

� MATLAB® connectivity includes two way integration

and code translation

� Mathematica® Notebook conversion and command

translation tools

� OpenMaple™ API for C, Java, and Visual Basic

programs

� External calling to Java, C, and Fortran

� Connect with Microsoft® Excel®, databases, the NAG

C Library, and CAD systems



NX Integration with Symbolica / Maple

First Available with NX 7.5

Capabilities

• Bi-directional NX and Maple integration

• Drive NX Expressions using Maple

worksheet calculations

• Include NX model properties in Maple worksheet calculations

Customer value

• These are very powerful engineering tools,

commonly used by our engineering customers.

• Integration with DesignLogic increases the

amount of true engineering work that can be represented inside NX.



Symbolica, NX, and Convergent Modeling

NX 11 (and better in NX 12…)

• Plot and then export equation-driven 3D

surfaces as faceted bodies

• Many customer applications over the years

(waveguides, light pipes, optical lenses,

airfoils, marine hulls, etc.)

Aspherical Lens

Equation

Symbolica

3D Plot Trimmed Solid

Body in NX

Managed mathematics

can drive

critical product shape

directly



NX 12 Body By Equation Feature

• Maple or NX Maple can define 3D

geometry using its math and 3D

plotting functions

• With NX 12, a new “Body By

Equation” feature can extract this

geometry and maintain associativity

with the worksheet.

• Geometry is imported as a

Convergent surface or body (either

one.)

• Body by Equation can then drive

downstream modeling operations.



Four Biggest NX Maple Use Cases

1. Pure NX Maple Users (within a PLM environment)

2. Users who primarily use NX Maple, occasionally pulling a value from an NX model

3. Users who primarily use NX, occasionally embedding an NX Maple calculation mid-design

4. NX or NX Maple user, generating engineering reports (output from models or worksheets)



NX Integrations with Maple / NX Maple

Feature-Based Expression/Variable Exchange between NX and Maple

Feature-Based Expression/Variable Exchange between NX and NX Maple

STL import of geometry from Maple into NX as Convergent Body

NX

7.5

NX

8.0

NX

8.5

NX

9.0

NX

10.0

NX

11.0

NX

12.0

Maple OR NX Maple-driven Body by Equation Feature in NX

Maple-centric Expression/Variable Exchange with NX



NX Maple Self-Learning Resources

Embedded Resources:

“Symbolica Tour” First Look

“Getting Started” Guides

Full Tutorials

Discipline-Specific Examples

Quick Reference Card

Maplesoft Online Resources:

Online Training Site

Maple Application Center

Discipline-Specific Examples



NX Maple Trial Experience

Room number 30410 (Wing 3, 4th Floor)

NX Maple is a powerful tool that simplifies your ability to integrate and access advanced math

inside your designs. NX Maple helps to connect your engineering knowledge to your design

geometry to ensure design consistency based on engineering best practices.

Drop in any time with Taylor Anderson and/or Richard Bush:Tuesday: 8:00 to 17:00

Wednesday: 8:00 to 11:00

Join us this week for a hands-on

“Getting Started with NX Maple” session!



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Taylor AndersonNX Product ManagerProduct Engineering Software

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