Concepts NREC 8.6

Concepts NREC 8.6 includes new capabilities which enable our global customer base to design and manufacture higher performance turbomachinery in less time. Concepts NREC is unique in offering both CAM and CAE software. Each software module can be used independently and the entire suite is tightly integrated to ensure the seamless transfer of data. This integration allows users to optimize designs, based on the impact to cost, machining time, and performance.

A key feature of the 8.5 CAE release is the integration of the FINETM/Turbo FINE/Turbo CFD integrated with Concepts NRECCFD tools from NUMECA International into the Agile Engineering Design System. With this new release, designs created in AxCent®, Concepts NREC’s 3-D detailed design module, can be analyzed with the NUMECA tools with just the push of a button. The embedded NUMECA technology will deliver an order of magnitude speedup in CFD, as well as the ability to analyze unsteady flows and arbitrary geometry with unstructured meshes. This means the CFD analysis capability can keep pace with the ever increasing advanced geometry capabilities of AxCent and allow users to push the limits of performance and reliability. Other highlights of the release include new design capability for casing treatments and other non-primary flow path geometry.

MAX-PAC version 8.5 has many new features for improved modeling, path Deburring Screen for MAX-PAC CAM Softwaregeneration, and workflow. New functions help to support advanced fillet and hub shapes, and version 8.5 also now provides deburring operations. Toolpath orientation during five-axis roughing has also been improved, along with new controls for cutter feeds. There is now a new optional module for 3-axis roughing that can be applied to impellers, blisks, and shrouded wheels. This new high-speed-milling strategy is particularly suited for larger components.