How Can NX Advanced Simulation Support Multi-User Design?

This paper highlights both the current capabilities and the future potential of NX Advanced Simulation to support synchronous multi-user analysis of complex parts and assemblies. Scenarios of time-saving analysis methods will be presented using the current capabilities of NX Advanced Simulation. To gain additional efficiencies we present a roadmap that extends the BYU-developed NXConnect multi-user environment to include NX Advanced Simulation allowing truly synchronous modeling, idealizing, meshing, and constraining of part files. Reflect back to the days when multiple engineers gathered around drafting tables and worked simultaneously on a large J-size drawing; they were not sharing a single mechanical pencil, why are we today still giving our largest most complex parts to just one modeler or analyst?