{"id":696,"date":"2014-04-07T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Siemens-PLM-Community-Wrap-Up-Week-of-March-31\/ba-p\/335227"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:39","slug":"siemens-plm-community-wrap-up-week-of-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/siemens-plm-community-wrap-up-week-of-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Siemens PLM Community Wrap Up \u2013 Week of March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2014\/03\/weekly-wrap-up2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17208\" alt=\"Weekly Wrap up\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2014\/03\/weekly-wrap-up2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/A>We are few weeks behind so this will be a long list.&nbsp;This week\u2019s <a title=\"Siemens PLM Community\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens PLM Community <\/A>Wrap-Up has information about how customers are using NX, tons of Tips and Tricks for almost all of our software, Solid Edge ST7 Sneak Peeks, a new 2D Drafting Forum and some exciting opportunities at this years PLM World conference. Let us know what you think!<BR \/><BR \/><B>Femap<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"MAYA HTT Presenting at Femap Symposium\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Femap-Blog\/MAYA-HTT-Presenting-at-the-2014-Femap-Symposium\/ba-p\/26726?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MAYA HTT Presenting at the 2014 Femap Symposium<\/A> \u2013 Details about the Femap Symposium and the MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies presentation! The entire process of structural design and analysis on a space antenna assembly.<BR \/><BR \/><B>NX Design<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"NX Quick Tip: Surface Modeling Tools for Reverse Engineering\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Quick-Tips-Surface-modeling-tools-for-reverse-engineering\/ba-p\/26498?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Quick Tips: Surface Modeling Tools for Reverse Engineering<\/A>: \u2013 Check out this NX Quick Tips video and watch Tod Parrella build parametric models in the context of organic, freeform scan using NX Shape Studio.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Award Winning Vehicle Manufacturer Cuts Cycle Time with NX\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-Award-winning-vehicle-manufacturer-cuts-cycle-time\/ba-p\/26754?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Case Study: Award Winning Vehicle Manufacturer Cuts Cycle Time With NX<\/A> \u2013 Read up on this case study about NX saving time for vehicle manufacturer Sanyang by 80%!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"NX Case Study: Grupo Matrigalsa\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-Grupo-Matrigalsa\/ba-p\/25692?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Case Study: Grupo Matrigalsa<\/A> \u2013 This case study showed the use of a single CAD solution to expand services and access new international markets.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"NX Now Available in Private Cloud Environment\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/Siemens-Press-Release-Siemens-NX-Software-Now-Available-in-Cost\/ba-p\/25984?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens\u2019 NX Software Now Available in Cost-Effective Private Cloud Environment<\/A> \u2013 Siemens just announced this new technology to enable companies to use central servers with remote access ns host software on a virtual desktop.<BR \/><BR \/><B>NX Simulation<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"NX CAE Tips &amp; Tricks Webinar\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Simulation-Blog\/NX-CAE-Tips-amp-Tricks-Webinar-Mixed-Element-Hybrid-FEM\/ba-p\/25684?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAE Tips &amp; Tricks Webinar<\/A> \u2013 Mixed Element\/Hybrid FEM Workflows \u2013 This webinar discussed advanced workflows and processes associated with the construction of mixed element\/hybrid finite element models.<BR \/><BR \/><B>PLM World<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Early Bird Registration Rate Extended for #PLMCONX\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-World-News\/Early-Bird-Registration-Rate-Extended-for-SPLMConx\/ba-p\/26486?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Early Bird Registration Rate Extended for #PLMCONX<\/A> \u2013 Save up to $350 by registering for Siemens PLM Connection Conference before April 14<SUP>th<\/SUP>.<BR \/><BR \/><B>Solid Edge<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"New 2D Drafting Forum in the Solid Edge Community\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/New-2D-Drafting-Forum-in-the-Solid-Edge-Community\/ba-p\/26750?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New 2D Drafting Forum in the Solid Edge Community<\/A> \u2013 A new place for Solid Edge users to ask for help, discuss the product, and see what other users are working on. Check it out!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Free 3D Sync with #SEU14 Registration\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/Free-3D-Sync-with-SEU14-Registration-Limited-Time-Offer\/ba-p\/26764?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Free 3D Sync with Solid Edge University Registration: Limited Time Offer!<\/A> \u2013 Up to April 30<SUP>th<\/SUP>, each Solid Edge customer who pays for registration for SEU14 will be offered a free license of 3DSync!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Solid Edge Windows Migration\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/Solid-Edge-Windows-Integration\/ba-p\/26252?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge Windows Integration<\/A> \u2013 Tighter interation of Solid Edge with Windows has synergies whose benefits are reaped by the users. With ST7 just around the corner, read up on this article for a quick overview.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"ST7 Sneak Peek: Assembly Patterns\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/ST7-Sneak-Peek-Assembly-Patterns\/ba-p\/26496?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ST7 Sneak Peek: Assembly Patterns<\/A> &#8211; The next ST7 sneak peek is curve driven assembly patterns. In ST7 you&#8217;ll be able to pattern components in an assembly using sketches, curves, or the assembly as input.&nbsp;Click for more information!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Surfacing: Techniques from the Trenches\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/Surfacing-Techniques-from-the-Trenches\/ba-p\/26664?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Surfacing: Techniques from the Trenches<\/A> \u2013 Tips &amp; tricks for surfacing in Solid Edge! Things both SE veterans and novices can learn.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"CAMWorks Adding More Functionality\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/CAMWorks-Adding-More-Functionality\/ba-p\/26624?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CAMWorks Adding More Functionality<\/A> \u2013 Following up on the integrated version of CAM software for Solid Edge, there are a few important improvements that have recently been added.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"The 10 Golden Rules of Solid Modeling\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/The-10-Golden-Rules-of-Solid-Modeling\/ba-p\/25914?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The 10 Golden Rules of Solid Modeling<\/A> \u2013 This post summarizes the 10 best practices that will help both novice users and 3D experts generate robust, solid models using Solid Edge.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Windows XP End of Life\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Community-Blog\/Windows-XP-End-Of-Life\/ba-p\/25772?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Windows XP End of Life<\/A> \u2013 Windows XP support is ending. Read up on the details and alternative options for users.<BR \/><BR \/><B>Tecnomatix<\/B><BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Tecnomatix Tech Tips Webinar Series\" href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tecnomatix-News\/Tecnomatix-Tech-Tips-Webinar-Series-Update\/ba-p\/26716?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix Tech Tips Webinar Series<\/A> \u2013 The series continues this month with a focus on dimensional quality. Two webinars on April 10<SUP>th<\/SUP> and April 24<SUP>th<\/SUP> \u2013 don\u2019t miss it!<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"How to Optimize Production for Energy Savings with Manufacturing Simulation\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tecnomatix-News\/How-to-optimize-production-for-energy-savings-with-manufacturing\/ba-p\/25468?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How to Optimize Production for Energy Savings with Manufacturing Simulation<\/A> \u2013 New features in Tecnomatix Plant Simulation allows you to model energy usage, include energy analysis, and more. Read up on the new functionality and watch the Tecnomatix Tech Tips webinar replay.<BR \/><BR \/><a title=\"Tecnomatix Tech Tips Launched\" href=\"mailto:http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tecnomatix-News\/Tecnomatix-Tech-Tips-Launched\/ba-p\/25782?stc=wwiia420005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix Tech Tips Launched<\/A> \u2013 Part 2 in the Tecnomatix Tech Tips Webinar series showed users how to how to model and simulate value stream in Tecnomatix Plant Simulation.<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>Join the Community to read these article first hand and connect with other users. As always, if you have any questions, leave us a comment!<BR \/><BR \/>See you next week with another round up from the Community.<BR \/><BR \/>Susan<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are few weeks behind so this will be a long list.&nbsp;This week\u2019s Siemens PLM Community Wrap-Up has information about how customers are using NX, tons of Tips and Tricks for almost all of our sof&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"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":[22],"industry":[],"product":[226,319,331],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-femap","product-nx","product-solid-edge","product-tecnomatix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}