Ship Structure – What’s NewNX11.0.1, NX11.0.2 & NX12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
NX 12Basic Design Seam Enhancements
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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
NX 12Basic Design Seam Enhancements
Basic Design – Eggbox Seam
Detail Design – Along Guide Cuts
Continuity
SymbolsCut_Height
Location
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Capability
Added “Sightline Cut” and “Corner Chamfer” option
Benefit
Support Customer Requirements
NX 12Plate Bending Template Enhancements
Sightline
Cut
Corner
Chamfer
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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