{"id":1086,"date":"2012-07-26T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T22:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-CAE-Tips-amp-Tricks-Usability-Features\/ba-p\/334961"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:04:58","slug":"nx-cae-tips-tricks-usability-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-cae-tips-tricks-usability-features\/","title":{"rendered":"NX CAE Tips &#038; Tricks &#8211; Usability Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Usability is a major focus for NX CAE.&nbsp; In our effort to put you, the analyst, in the driver&#8217;s seat, we are constantly enriching our front-end with intuitive, productivity enhancing features.&nbsp; Allow me to introduce you to just a few of them.<BR \/><BR \/><!--more-->Direct editing is probably our most widely enjoyed feature.&nbsp; Powered by Synchronous Technology, it allows you to freely edit multi-CAD geometry a la click and drag.&nbsp; You can modify geometry on-the-fly in response to your simulation results, not to mention defray the expense of oatmeal raisin cookies for the friendly designer who&#8217;s help you would have to enlist with traditional CAE tools.&nbsp; Check out the video below for a closer look at this game-changing functionality.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ADH0uNOwi2g\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Direct Editing<BR \/><BR \/>Next up &#8211; midsurfacing.&nbsp; Midsurfacing is an efficient technique for modeling thin walled parts in 2D.&nbsp; You can often obtain 99% of the insight available with a 3D model, but at a fraction of the computational cost due to the simplicity afforded by a 2D shell mesh.&nbsp; NX CAE is setup to make midsurfacing painless and intuitive.&nbsp; I think the example below illustrates just that.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll see how you can quickly perform multiple midsurface operations after subdividing the geometry as necessary.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lBJwZpz6b6g\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Midsurfacing<BR \/><BR \/>Finally, lets take a look at mesh control options.&nbsp; It is often beneficial to perform ad hoc mesh refinements to better capture structural effects in critical areas of your geometry.&nbsp; This freedom to tailor local mesh density and also customize nodal spacing is another great usability feature contained inside the NX CAE toolbox.&nbsp; I\u2019ll let the following video illustrate.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o8XXbOav3AE\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Mesh Controls<BR \/><BR \/>Stay tuned for more NX CAE Tips &amp; Tricks,<BR \/><BR \/>Mark<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usability is a major focus for NX CAE.&nbsp; In our effort to put you, the analyst, in the driver&#8217;s seat, we are constantly enriching our front-end with intuitive, productivity enhancing features.&amp;nb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}