PMI NX Workflows for Design and Analysis
Transcript of PMI NX Workflows for Design and Analysis
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Workflows in NX: Product and Manufacturing
Information (PMI) for Design and Analysis
Curtis Rands | ATA Engineering
Benji Rappoport | Sonos
ATA Engineering
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Design
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SONOS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Supports global new product development and sustaining
engineering efforts
“We squeeze all the great technology into aggressive industrial
design envelopes in a way that enables hi-fi sound and rock solid
WiFi performance” –Benji Rappoport, sr. manager
~30 engineers spread across 3 sites: Boston, Santa Barbara, and
Shanghai
Closest dev. partners: Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling
Engineering, and Industrial Design
Specialists in: mechanical system design mechanical & thermal analysis
materials engineering CAD administration
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Product and
Manufacturing
Information
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PMI
GD&T
text annotations
surface specifications
material specifications
data markings
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Model-Based
Definition (MBD)
CAD models
PMI
component materials
assembly BOM
configs
req & specs
design intent
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MBD
Source: “Digital Tolerance,” by Jean Thilmany,
Mechanical Engineering, July 2010.
Rooted in ASME Y14.41-2003 “Digital
Product Definition Data Practices”
Aims to improve productivity and reduce
time to market
Expected to replace 2-D engineering
drawings used for
manufacturing
inspection
documenting/archiving design data
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MBD •CNC machining
•additive processes
manufacturing
inspection and quality control
tolerance analysis
CAD
PMI
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engineered product
development process
idea development
customers
markets
requirements
conceptual design
analysis
prototypes
testing
reviews
detailed design
analysis
prototypes
testing
reviews
manufacturing
pilot/LRIP
mass production
quality control
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VS
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SONOS Mechanical Engineering
Our Journey with PMI – It is only just beginning!
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Getting Started
If you are already using NX it only takes one person to
turn your team onto PMI: “The Explorer”
Why should we support and encourage the explorer?
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Getting Started
Be the Visionary
• Do you?
• Want to deliver 2D faster
• Struggle to communicate
design intent
• Imagine future = 2D prints
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Getting Started
1. NX (with PMI add-on)
2. The Explorer
3. The Visionary
So what has our journey taught us?
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The Journey
PMI data is “model view”
dependent
Creating PMI objects:
First, make the desired model view
the “Work View”
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The Journey
PMI created in one view can easily
be displayed in any or all views;
(“display instances”)
Must always reside in at least one
view
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The Journey
PMI tool does not
like grabbing points
on splines
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The Journey
By creating a
lightweight section
view, you can
dimension the edge
created
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The Journey
You can then move the PMI
dimension to any view that you
wish
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The Journey
One Challenge and One Success
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The Journey
One Challenge…
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The Journey
CAD objects checked into Windchill are viewed in CreoView
• PMI data does not show up
MCOSMOS (CMM tool) can import CAD files to facilitate
automated inspections
• PMI data does not show up
Standard file exports? .STEP…
• PMI “disappears” during export
Common denominator: .STEP format
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The Journey
In summary
• CreoView – PMI is lost
• MCOSMOS – PMI is lost (potential exists for native NX import)
• .STEP file – PMI is lost (sort of)
Potential Solution: JT file format
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The Journey
… and One Success
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The Journey
SONOS ME closed a gap in
their workflow with the
Industrial Design team
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The Results
Old workflow:
New workflow:
ID
Intent
(.ai)
ID CAD
(.prt)
ME CAD
(.prt)
ID CAD
(.prt)
ME CAD
(.prt)
ID
Intent
(PMI)
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The Future
Using PMI:
• Streamline the outsourcing of 2D
• Capture manufacturing capabilities real time while
reviewing parts with manufacturing partners
Allowing cross-functional team members to interrogate
the PMI data in our managed environment
So what’s next?
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engineered product
development process
idea development
customers
markets
requirements
conceptual design
analysis
prototypes
testing
reviews
detailed design
analysis
prototypes
testing
reviews
manufacturing
pilot/LRIP
mass production
quality control
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Scenario: conceptual design with notes capturing design
intent and requirements
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Scenario: conceptual design; live dimensions, notes, URL
notes, associated objects
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Scenario: detailed product design; live dims, lightweight
section views, part/material labels, assembly filters,
associated objects, display preferences
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Scenario: drawing views with important product notes and
manufacturing information created by the designer
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Scenario: convert sketch dimensions to PMI; edit key part
parameters on the fly, outside of the sketch
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Creative Application of PMI, NX Open, and Advanced Simulation:
Automated Simulation based on CAT.Part with CAE Attributes
Credit: Boris Lauber, Siemens PLM
Workflow for Automation • Convert Catia part with PMI to JT file
• Import JT file with PMI into NX
• Transform PMI information to CAE
attributes (specific syntax) • Automatically mesh component
• Apply load and boundary conditions
using CAE attributes (specific syntax
from PMI)
• Run structural simulation • Generate result JT files
• Generate word report
NX Sim and Fem files can be reopened
and modified (mesh, loads, boundary
conditions)
Readily expandable capability
JT with PMI
SIM with automated loads and BCs
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Many thanks to our additional contributors:
Alex Gould, SONOS Mechanical Engineering
Evan Bauch, co-op at ATA Engineering
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