{"id":358,"date":"2019-02-12T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Academic-News\/What-s-New-in-Learning-Advantage-Additive-Manufacturing\/ba-p\/566807"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:14:48","slug":"whats-new-in-learning-advantage-additive-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/academic\/whats-new-in-learning-advantage-additive-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Learning Advantage \u2013 Additive Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>There are two types of people in the universe \u2013 those who always wished they had a holodeck and those who wished for a replicator. Fortunately, we live in a magical age when we have both. Sort of. Almost.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/support_parameter-1.gif\" alt=\"support_parameter.gif\" title=\"support_parameter.gif\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Today I\u2019m tickled to tell you that we\u2019re a couple steps closer to dialing in those replicator dreams with two new great <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Learning Advantage resources that tap the power of NX in Additive Manufacturing. First, our <\/SPAN><a style=\"font-family: inherit; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/training.plm.automation.siemens.com\/lms\/aicc.cfm?command=aicclaunch&amp;passthrough=1&amp;productID=arc-nx-am-joshi-en-1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Additive Manufacturing with NX<\/A><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> tutorial uses a combination of slides and video presentations to take you through the fundamentals of CAD topology optimization from a modeling application perspective. This tutorial will take between 4-6 hours to complete and comes with all the model files you need for the included exercises.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/2-12-2019-1-13-57-PM-1.png\" alt=\"2-12-2019 1-13-57 PM.png\" title=\"2-12-2019 1-13-57 PM.png\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Once you\u2019re feeling like an NX pro, you\u2019ll love these new <\/SPAN><a style=\"font-family: inherit; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/training.plm.automation.siemens.com\/lms\/aicc.cfm?command=aicclaunch&amp;passthrough=1&amp;productID=arc-nx-am-UofC-en-1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Additive Manufacturing Apps<\/A><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> developed by <\/SPAN><a style=\"font-family: inherit; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.min.uc.edu\/cgdm\/About%20the%20Director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Sam Anand<\/A><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> at the University of Cincinnati\u2019s <\/SPAN><a style=\"font-family: inherit; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/milkyway.mie.uc.edu\/cgdm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Center for Global Design and Manufacturing<\/A><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">. These apps make use of NX Open with the help of NX API functions to provide a set of stand-alone pre-processing tools with GUIs. The toolset allows the user to achieve effective builds in Additive Manufacturing by assisting with support structure generation, support structure accessibility, orientation optimization, detecting and highlighting features that are difficult to manufacture based on DFAM violations and prediction of build parameters. These are the first of what we hope will be an entire library of apps to support NX\u2019s additive manufacturing capacity.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/la-1.png\" alt=\"la.png\" title=\"la.png\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Learning Advantage is an <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/training.plm.automation.siemens.com\/mytraining\/support\/academicfaq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">online learning portal<\/A><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> covering all of Siemens Industry Software products. Our Corporate <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">customers pay an annual subscription fee for this resource, which is always <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Academic-News\/Learning-Advantage-online-training-FREE-for-students-and\/ba-p\/344250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FREE to our Academic partners<\/A><\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">! Ask your instructor or administrator about using Learning Advantage today!<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>So whether you\u2019re team holodeck or team replicator, we\u2019d love to hear what you think of these resources! Drop us a line in the comments below and let us know!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>P.S. 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