Customer

Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian business jet manufacturer headquartered in Montreal. They needed to migrate their meshing software MBGrid from CATIA V5 to NX.

Name: Bombardier Inc.

Industry: Aerospace

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Challenges

• Migrate MFC based legacy user interface code from CATIA V5 to NX
• Access NX geometry and topology data for mesh generation
• Create nodes and elements and visualize them in NX environment

Solution

• Developed a NX plug-in to customize the menu and ribbon user interface
• Added commands to open/save mesh database file, create surface and volume mesh, visualize nodes and elements, and set meshing parameters for multi-block structured grid
• Implemented functionality to access CAD geometry and topology information using NX Open

Results