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Leveraging PTS and Simulation to Predict Engineering Behavior25 October 2017 / 10:30amTaylor Anderson, NX Product Manager

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19.05.2016 Siemens PLM Software

• What is Product Template Studio?

• What is a Product Template?

• How can I incorporate FEA methods?

• How can I incorporate Motion analysis?

• A worked example: Design, Motion, Amesim

• What about Math tools like Maple or Symbolica?

Agenda for these 45 minutes:



What is Product Template Studio?

� CHALLENGE: Effectively communicating the

intended purpose and interaction with a

parametric model can be difficult

� Product Template interfaces simplify interaction

with complex designs

� PTS can be used to package a design along with

its documentation and analyses for simple reuse

� Modularizes parametric designs into easily

reusable templates

with no coding

PTS users report 80+%

gains in productivity over just reusing traditional

parametric models



What is a Product Template?

� Product Templates ALWAYS contain

an NX Design Part or Assembly

� A Product Template MAY ALSO contain

any of the following:

• Documentation (Drafting/PMI)

• Motion Analysis

• Kinematics

• Dynamics

• Finite Element Analysis

• Structural

• Thermal

• Flow

• Etc.

Useful and Robust

Parametric Model

Product

TemplateSimple Code-Free

User Interface



So how do I incorporate Simulation tools into my templates?

Every good template starts with

a robust parametric model.



So how do I incorporate Simulation tools into my templates?

What question are you trying to answer by using a simulation in your template?

How can you present a useful answer to the designer, so they can make a good decision?

• Simulation tools like Motion and FEA can help validate the function of your design.

• Math tools like Maple or Symbolica can either:

� Help validate the function of your design, or

� Help size or drive key input parameters or shapes.



So how do I incorporate FEA into my templates?

• Build a robust design model that can accommodate the kinds of changes

that are likely for your design envelope.

• Adding a Product Template interface to the design model first can

help accelerate testing.

• The Sensitivity Study tool can help with auto-testing.









• Build a robust motion model or finite element model that can adapt to

design changes and update associatively.

• Choose analysis modeling techniques that are associative are require no manual interaction to update.

• Test your model around the desired design envelope.









• Build a robust motion model or finite element model that can adapt to

design changes and update associatively.

• Choose analysis modeling techniques that are associative are require no manual interaction to update.

• Test your model around the desired design envelope.

• Once your design model and analysis model are playing together nicely, add the Product Template interface to the analysis model.



Adding the Finite Element model:

• Enter Product Template Studio from

your design part.

• On the “Manager” tab, your SIM

should be visible at the bottom. (SIM in the same folder and SIM in a

named subfolder are both supported.)





your design part.




• MB3 (right-click) and choose “Add template interface”.





your design part.





• Double-click the SIM template above to get started.





your design part.

• On the “Manager” tab, your SIM should

be visible at the bottom. (SIM in the same folder and SIM in a



• Double-click the SIM template above to get started.

• Add CAE objects from the PTS

Explorer palette to the Interface tab.

• “Activate” desired elements as needed.



Using the combined template:

• Publish the templates

• Launch the Product Template interface from the design part.

• The analysis will appear in the template

explorer under the design part.

• Double-click the analysis model node to

launch the analysis.

• The Template Explorer can help you iterate quickly between the design mode and the

analysis model.



Adding a Motion model:

• Enter Product Template Studio from your

design part.

• On the “Manager” tab, your motion SIM

should be visible at the bottom.




Adding a Motion model:

• Enter Product Template Studio from your

design part.

• On the “Manager” tab, your motion SIM

should be visible at the bottom.


• Double-click the motion template above to get started.

• Add motion objects from the PTS Explorer

palette to the Interface tab. (Often this will just be a Solution, which for motion includes

both the solve and the playback.)

• Publish and exit when it’s ready!

Product Template Studio:for layout studies

A Worked Example...

PLM Europe25 October 2017Neil Shand



The Challenge:… The PTS Template:

To Evaluate Different Wiper

Layouts

• A Design Tool to develop Wiper

layout and Wiper System

Hardpoints

• Easy to learn

• Easy to use

• Evaluate some aspects of wipe

quality

• Reporting

• Validate new windscreen surfaces



Inside this PTS Template: (a kind of agenda!....)

• Product Template Studio – Codeless UI Creation

• HD3D Tags

• Requirement Checks

• WAVE Interpart Modeling

• Suppression by Expression

• Visual Rules

• NX Open (SNAP) invoked from Product Template interface

• Excel Integration

• NX Motion integration with PTS

• Amesim integration with NX Motion integration with PTS…



How its done: Motion Dynamics Cosimulation with AMESIM

Using an already defined .ame Amesim model

a PMDC motor and gearing

Provides a torque to Motion TQ

Reads angular velocity AN from Motion

SymbolicaUnlocking Commercial Knowledge

Paul Goosens, Maplesoft

Maplesoft

More than 30 years of Engineering Computation

• 1980: Research project at University of Waterloo, Ontario

• Company founded in 1988

• Leading provider of high-performance solutions for engineering,

science and mathematics

Global Presence

• Part of the Cybernet Group

• Offices in Canada, US, Germany, UK and Japan

• >30 partners worldwide

Engineering Solutions

• Maple & MapleSim

• Professional Services

Who uses Maple…and Why?

• Design Engineer– Enter live mathematical expressions quickly

and accurately

– Perform calculations and mathematical manipulations error-free

– Validate results through fully-disclosed expressions

• Calculation Tool Developer– Develop algorithms and routines with

powerful, multi-threaded technical programming language

– Create intuitive user interfaces with ready-made UI components

– Deploy solutions through web-publication and automatic code generation (C, Java, VB, FORTRAN…)

• Advanced Analyst– Turn mathematical concepts into solutions

through powerful symbolic processing

– Implement solutions with advanced numeric computation

– Capture the knowledge behind the solution through fully-disclosed equations and documentation tools

Paper Notebooks

Excel

Scripting languages

…but derivations and insight are lost…but derivations and insight are lost

“Where did these

expressions come

from?”

“What assumptions

were made?”

“Is this valid for my

specific problem?”

“How do I change it

to suit my problem?”

“What is that weird

numeric factor?”

“Calculation Tools” are ubiquitous…

Moving from Calculations to Managing Engineering Knowledge & IP

Commercial Knowledge

DeployKnowledge

Capture

KnowledgeKnowledge

Derivation

Concept

PLM Integration: Validation & Traceability

Knowledge

Deployment

Solution



NX Integration with Symbolica / MapleFirst 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 ModelingNX 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 FeatureSneak peek example this year ☺☺☺☺

• Maple or Symbolica 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.



NX Integrations with Maple / Symbolica

Maplesoft is a long-time partner,

and we have deepened the partnership.

Feature-Based Expression/Variable Exchange between NX and Maple

Feature-Based Expression/Variable Exchange between NX and Symbolica

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 Symbolica-driven Body by Equation Feature in NX



Incorporating Math Tools like Maple and Symbolica

1. Your Knowledge and understanding of your products

2. Maplesoft understanding of complex mathematical systems

3. Siemens connections from math to design geometry



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