The Siemens community page (https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/) allows users to browse articles, find user groups, and find product communities. Further, users can submit ideas for software enhancements to our development team for future releases of our software. This article guides users through this process.
Customers are the best source of feedback for improving Simcenter STAR-CCM+. Fortunately, submitting ideas to our product development is straightforward. The steps for submitting ideas are provided here.
1.) Visit our community page: Siemen's Community.
The Siemens community page allows users to find product communities, browse articles, and engage in discussions with other users. Further, this is where ideas are submitted to product development. However, in order to submit ideas, the user must be logged into their Siemens account. If not logged in, one needs to click on "Log in" on the top right of the screen and input the email address associated with their account. If the user does not have an account, they need to create one by selecting "Create one" and providing the required information.
2.) Toggle over to the Simcenter Community Page.
Once the user is logged in, they can select products > Simcenter as shown below in Figure 1. There are also other communities available such as NX CAD where users can submit ideas as well.
Figure 1: Simcenter Community
3.) Select the specific product (i.e. Simcenter STAR-CCM+).
As is shown in Figure 2, products from across the Simcenter portfolio have dedicated community pages. However, IDEAS are available for only a couple of our products currently (i.e. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and NX).
Figure 2: Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Community
4.) Toggle over to Ideas and select "Submit New Idea"
Figure 3: Submit New Idea
Once the idea is submitted, users will be able to support the idea by upvoting it. These ideas are considered for product enhancements for future releases and are marked accordingly in all of our release materials (release notes, user guide, fact sheet, etc.). For instance, in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2402, we introduced User field function name synchronization which started as a Community Idea. In the user guide (see section provided below), we mark the new feature accordingly as shown below in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Community Idea Enhancement
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ User Guide Sections: