NX 8 CAE

It is a useful software in mechanical engineering

Vorteile:

The software allows modeling, simulation and design for many topics in mechanical engineering and others fileds

Nachteile:

It is an expensive software, the technical support is late. This require a previous knowledge for use it.

Siemens NX8 is a great way to analyze NX CAD models or assemblies for stress and deflection

Kommentare: Using NX8 CAE allowed me to load and constrain CAD models and assemblies, to know how much stress and deflection the designs were seeing. The Mesher is quick and there many options. Manually defining welds with connector meshes is actually efficient because everything is known and defined by the user, whereas auto weld/connectors may overconstrain a part and produce inaccurate results. Correlation between real-world failures and NX8 CAE was good, so there was confidence in the designs released. It is very thorough, capable software, but the price tag is high and Siemens have to realize that companies like SimSolid are producing equally capable software, for similar applications, at a fraction of the price, hence recommending is about neutral.

Vorteile:

NX8 CAE is structured with three files: your Idealized Part, your FEM , and your SIM. The idealized part is nice because it is linked to your CAD part, but it's just a representation of it. You can tune it and remove features without affecting your original part. The FEM contains the mesh, and the SIM contains the loads and constraints. Not all analysis software compartmentalizes everything this way, but I think it's a good job and keeps things organized, which not all software does. Meshing is quite quick compared to other software. Before NX CAE, I was an I-DEAS FEA user, and find it much more modern than that.

Nachteile:

SIM file run times can be a bit slow at times. If a run fails, not much information is given, and you have to sift through a long, cumbersome results file. Establishing contact definition between parts is cumbersome. The graphics and selection functions for loads and constraints could do with better graphics for added clarity.

make it user friendly

Kommentare: Not easy to find the a way to remove errors, complex structure, all options are not available at one location.
Not at all user friendly software.

Vorteile:

not much to tell, measuring , .prt .fem .sim

Nachteile:

node association, enable FEM update(again have re associate the nodes -- causing errors).

Best computer aided designing and manufacturing software

Vorteile:

Nx 8 CAE is one of the best software for mechanical engineers helps in designing and simulation of the models. Easy to design complex designs with high precision. Easy to perform analysis of the designs like stress analysis and heat transfer analysis to check the durability of product. Supports importing cad files from other softwares is a great feature.

Nachteile:

No issues. Needs proper training for the best use. Customer support need to be improved.

Its a CAD workhorse

Kommentare: I use NX 8 to do all of my 3D modelling and engineering drawings. Most items are simple enough to figure out. Its is very order specific on its operations which can be frustrating for some, but I feel it gives me more control to the thinking rather than letting the computer assume it knows what I want. There are more options available for modelling than other softwares and the layering feature really helps me keep my models and drawings clean.

Vorteile:

This software is able to do most anything that I want it to do. It can handle simple modelling of single components all the way through complex moving assemblies. It especially seems to excel at surface modelling like articular surfaces of joint replacements.

Nachteile:

Some of its features like flows and sweeps are frustrating to learn and use. Operations are very order specific (which I like on other features) but the directions are fairly vague and aren't intuitive to figure out.