A manufacturer has designed a fuel pod in NX.  The fuel pod has a hemispherical and conical end, and a cylindrical mid-section. To minimize material costs, the manufacturer wants to minimize the surface area of the fuel pod while maintaining the existing volume.

This application:

• pulls the current dimensions of the fuel pod (radius of the hemispherical end, length of the cylindrical midsection, and height of the conical end) from the NX CAD model,
• calculates the current volume of the fuel pod,
• optimizes the dimensions to minimize the surface area while maintaining the existing volume,
• and pushes the optimized dimensions back into the NX CAD model.

NOTE: To use this application, you must

• have a supported version of NX installed,
• load canisterOptimization.prt in NX (this is the CAD model of the fuel pod),
• ensure the NX-Maple link works correctly.