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Ship Structure – What’s NewNX11.0.1, NX11.0.2 & NX12

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2017.05.12 Siemens PLM Software

Agenda

NX 11.0.1

Stiffener by Support Multiple Placement

Basic Design Navigator

NX 11.0.2

Ship Mesh Automation

Standard Parts Brackets – Copy/Copy Mirror Linked

Body Option

NX 12

Project Setup Enhancement

Grid Enhancement

Coordinate System Enhancement

Shipbuilding Performance

3D General Arrangement (GA)

Support Multiple Display Part (MDP)

Basic Design

Copy Enhancements

Seam Enhancements

Basic Design Stiffener System Boundary Enhancements

Basic Design Corner Cuts & Edge Cuts

Basic Design Transition Enhancement

Basic & Detail Design Cutout & Along Guide Cut Enhancements

Basic & Detail Design Drawing Enhancement

Basic & Detail Design Lapped Bracket

Detail Design

Detail & Mfg Part Split

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Assemblies

Plate Bending Template Enhancements

Penetration Management Enhancements



Capability

For each “Stiffener By Support” method support :

Keep Plate System selected.

Multiple 1st and 2nd Support Selection.

Supports can be selected in any order.

Benefit

Improves the efficiency of placing multiple stiffeners

NX 11.0.1 Stiffener By Support Multiple Placement



Capability

Provides configurable hierarchical organization of the Basic

Design systems.

Initial hierarchy defined by an xml file

Supports Add, Modify & Delete of hierarchy nodes

Supports drag and drop of systems

Work Part System’s Features are available in the Feature

Structure block.

Features can be added, modified or deleted

Each sub-system is displayed

Benefit

Flexible Basic Design System Organization

Eliminates the need to switch to the Part Navigator to edit

features

NX 11.0.1 Basic Design Navigator



Capability

Added – Mesh Automation command to NX CAE

Generates 1D Beam element and 2D ThinShell elements

from the Basic Design CAE Preparation command (Added in

NX11) output

Profile cross section size, orientation and material attributes

are used to create the Beam elements

Plate Thickness and material are used to create 2d Thin Shell

elements

Benefit

Eliminates manual splitting and properties transfer

Beam elements for stiffeners reduces the model size

NX 11.0.2Ship Mesh Automation



Capability

Detail Design Template Based Standard Part Brackets can be

copied and copy mirrored with an option to only create a

linked body.

Linked body has all the attributes required to support

manufacturing

Benefit

Quickly place identical associative bracket copies

NX 11.0.2Standard Parts Brackets – Copy/Copy Mirror Linked Body Option



Capability

Creates a standard project setup for BVR Assembly Structure

or 4GD Workset’s Subsets

Configurable XML file defines the standard assemblies or

subsets

XML file “nxship_structure.xml” located in nxship/data

Benefit

Faster project start up

Standard project configuration

NX 12Project Setup Enhancement



Capability

“Concept From Spreadsheet” command has been enhanced

to include Grid part creation and location

Grid Placement block added to “Concept From Spreadsheet”

command

Grid Datum display size automatically adjusted based on

Customer Defaults

Benefit

Easier and consistent Grid creation

Eliminates oversize Datum display

NX 12Grid Enhancement



Capability

Added support of common Naval global coordinate system

Origin is at the Forward Perpendicular

+X is going aft and +Y is to Starboard

Benefit

Starboard +Y and Aft +X are correctly handled in:

Basic Design molded conventions

Drawing labels and view directions

Marking Lines

NX 12Coordinate System Enhancement



Capability

Multiple Display Part (MDP) allows the user to define

multiple windows with different display parts

MDP use examples:

Separate Windows showing Mfg Part and Basic Design

System and/ or Detail Design parts

Separate Windows showing a drawing and 3D model

Separate Windows showing a single part and whole

assembly

Separate Windows showing different designs

Benefit

Visualize different data perspectives simultaneously

Eliminates need to have multiple NX sessions to see multiple

display parts simultaneously

NX 12Support Multiple Display Part (MDP)



Capability

Reduced Multiple Stiffener Creation Preview Update

Preview body caching has been added to stiffeners and

endcuts.

Improve Transition performance

Up to two times faster Transition from Basic to Detail Design.

Assembly Load Performance (Delayed – Now targeted for

NX12.01)

New Minimal Load option in the Assembly Load Options that

greatly improves load time for large model.

Benefit

Faster preview when creating multiple stiffeners

Faster Transition from Basic to Detail Design

Faster load time

NX 12Shipbuilding Performance



Capability

Added an application for the creation of a Ship’s 3D General

Arrangement and its corresponding 2D drawings.

Benefit

Provides a 3D General Arrangement

Expands NX’s coverage of the ship design process

NX 123D General Arrangement (GA)



Capability

Copy Multiple Plate Systems at one time.

Copy Feature along a single Plate System

Feature such as stiffeners, cutout, brackets can be copied in

the same plate system

Benefit

More complete coverage of Customer use cases

Eliminates repetitive operations

NX 12Basic Design Copy Enhancements



Capability

Auto Select Stiffeners & Edge Reinforcement option on seam

dialog

Enables the user to auto select stiffeners and edge

reinforcement that intersect a seam definition.

Seam Point Definition

Enables a profile seam to be defined using the point

definition dialog

Benefit

More flexible and efficient seam creation

NX 12Basic Design Seam Enhancements

Opens Point

Creation Dialog



Capability

Seam Bounded by Seam

Enables a seam to be bounded to other seams

Seam at Profile Knuckles

Automatically place a seam at each landing curve knuckle.

User can delete a seam to get bend behavior.

Benefit

More flexible and efficient seam creation




Capability

Added Eggbox Seam type in Basic Design

Enables the creation of multiple egg box connections in

Basic Design

Transition creates the Detail Design cuts.

Benefit

Efficient creation of multiple Eggbox connections in Basic

Design


Basic Design – Eggbox Seam

Detail Design – Along Guide Cuts

Continuity

SymbolsCut_Height

Location



Capability

“Select Region” option added to Stiffener System

“Edit Boundary” command added to support modification of

one or both boundaries of multiple stiffeners.

Benefit

Better control of stiffener landing curves

More efficient support of common stiffener definition

workflows.

NX 12Basic Design Stiffener System Boundary Enhancement



Capability

Corner Cuts and Edge Cuts can now be created in Basic

Design

Benefit

More complete drawings can be generated from Basic

Design

NX 12Basic Design Corner Cuts and Edge Cuts



Capability

Added a check to Validate Basic Design and DryRun for

Unsplit knuckled stiffeners that would not be allowed to be

bent in Detail Design

Benefit

Find unsplit stiffeners that would fail in transition because

the shape and size of the stiffener is not allowed by the

detail design Stiffener Bending rules.

NX 12Transition Enhancement



Capability

“Custom Shape” type added to “Cutout” command

Better default positioning and more intuitive user feedback

“Keep Selected” added to each input

Benefit

More efficient and flexible creation of opening.

Eliminates the need to exit “Cutout” and start “Extrude” for

non-standard openings.

NX 12Basic & Detail Design Cutout Enhancements



Capability

“Orientation” block added to the “Edge Cut” command

“Specify Spacing Reference” added to Edge Cut command

Default spacing is along the selected edge

User can specify a vector to be used for spacing.

Benefit

More flexible and efficient placement of common edge cut

use cases

NX 12Basic & Detail Design Edge Cut Enhancement

Default is normal

to edge

Normal to user

specified

horizontal axis User specified the

Horizontal Axis for

the spacing

reference



Capability

Redesigned User Interface with improved functionality and usability Plane selection incorporated in view list Sheet size incorporated in Sheet List Better control of views on each sheet and sheet arrangement Multiple Drawings can be created Front and back proximity control added to dialog Line Font control based on Context Attribute value

Improved View Edit functionality Modify view plane Modify view direction and proximity values

Improved Scantling Table display

Benefit

Improved usability and control during creation

Improved control during view edit

NX 12Basic & Detail Design Drawing Enhancement



Capability

Added Lapped Bracket option to the feature based Bracket

command.

OOTB includes Type B and Type D

Parameters set based on HP size.

NX 12Basic & Detail Design Lapped Bracket



Capability

Enhancements to the Detail Design – “Split Ship Structure”

command

Allow splitting of a plate or profile with an intersecting plate

Allow splitting of a plate or profile with a larger intersecting

profile

Allow splitting of an edge reinforcement with an intersecting and

co-planar edge reinforcement.

Allow splitting with sketched curve

Benefit

More efficient creation of intersecting Detail Design plates,

stiffener and edge reinforcements

NX 12Detail Design Split Enhancement



Capability

Added tools for the definition of the manufacturing build-up of

ship structure

Automatic definition of the leaf level sub-assemblies

Automatic assembly naming

Easy visualization and modification of the assembly hierarchy

Weight & Centers automatically calculated

Welds automatically distributed to the correct assembly

Weld lengths calculated.

Benefit

Efficient creation and modification of the structural assembly

hierarchy

NX 12Manufacturing Assemblies



Capability

Added “Sightline Cut” and “Corner Chamfer” option

Benefit

Support Customer Requirements

NX 12Plate Bending Template Enhancements

Sightline

Cut

Corner

Chamfer



Capability

Support creation of a partial hole on plate edge

Allow any member of the owing group to delete a request

Support Angled Penetration for a single request

Support Offset for rectangular, flat oval, and user defined cuts

Support Compensation defined with request and cut sized

includes compensation with optional offset.

Benefit

More complete coverage of Customer use cases

Eliminates several manual workarounds

NX 12Penetration Management

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