Hello, my name is Jimmy Costello from the NX Product Marketing Team, and
today I will be demonstrating how using Design Space Explorer and NX can help
you to improve your design efficiency.
To begin, you can see we have a coffee machine.
In this video, we are going to take the coffee grinder from the inside of this
machine and look at what parameters will make this piece as efficient as possible.
As I open this part into a new window, the first thing that I will do is
select study from the top of the screen under Design Space Explorer.
Doing this creates a new folder where the tests we perform will be stored.
This must be done anytime a new series of tests is performed on a part.
One other thing to notice is that the new study is now populated on
the left side of the screen under the Study Navigator section.
This is very useful to keep track of the many moving pieces when
utilizing the Design Space Explorer.
Now that we have started the study, we must set the workflow.
When selecting the workflow, users are deciding which parts parameters
to use in study iterations.
Typically, this will simply be the work part.
After selecting the workflow, we can now set up the variables, constraints
and objectives for each study.
The ones that are selected should be reflective of angles
for each individual part.
This may be to properly produce an effective counterweight.
Optimize volumes, determine proper materials to use or in this case,
determine the size of extruders and chamfers, which can be used
in the creation of this part.
When selecting variables to test, one of the most useful tools is the continuous
option for varying a parameter values.
This helps users to quickly establish a range of values to test, to determine
the best design options in their parts.
As I go through selecting the variables for this study, you may also notice the
baseline value is automatically set to the current value of each parameter.
This encourages efficiency in the test performance.
Additionally, you may notice that the range of values for each variable appears
on the right side of the study Navigator.
This helps users to keep track of their study as it is created
with the design variable set.
The next thing to take into consideration is the design constraints.
Here users can set a certain parameter to a set value or range of values.
However, for this example, it is not necessary to create a design constraint.
For this specific test, we are exploring how altering the chafer
in the extrude will impact the small depth hole on the face of the grinder.
Because of this, I'm setting our design objective to maximize the whole depth.
Now that our variables, constraints and objectives have
been set, we can run our study.
When you're running a study, users have the ability to set the number of tests.
Once this has been determined, we can simply select, okay,
and the test will be performed.
When this is completed, we can go into results to see
how each iteration has done.
Immediately.
It is clear that each iteration is color coded to show the
success of design's parameters.
The most efficient design is highlighted green.
Each additional successful design is white, and the
unsuccessful designs are red.
This is an incredibly useful tool for determining which part design
to use as it quickly determines which are possible solutions.
This is all possible thanks to NX's, enabling technologies, process
automation, distributed execution efficient search, insight and discovery.
In addition to this table, users can also view the results of the study in a graph
by selecting the graph option from the top of the screen, users get a customizable,
easy to use graph option where they can select which variables to view.
One last important tool when utilizing Design Space Explorer is the ability
to copy the study, to speed up the creation of similar studies.
To do this user to simply right click on the current study.
Select copy study and choose which aspects of their current study they
want to use in their next study.
In conclusion, we reviewed how to set up a study Design Space Explorer, the benefits
they carry and reviewed the results of each test trial that has been ran.
I would like to thank you for your time and attention.