Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2

Al Dean’s uses Solid Edge Simulation as a good example

Apr 08, 2010 - 03:54 PM

In his blog on the subject of barriers for simulation entry and adoption, Al Dean, editor of Develop3D magazine, refers to Solid Edge Simulation as an example of how simulation tools should be integrated within a CAD system to promote rapid design iteration.

not only are these tools [Solid Edge Simulation] powerful, but they don’t restrict what can be done, don’t restrict the fine tuning and optimization of a simulation task

You can read his blog here.

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Part 2 of Kenneth Wong’s Review: Stress Relief

Mar 22, 2010 - 09:02 AM

Kenneth Wong of Desktop Engineering pens Part 2 of his series on Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 on simulation. Titled "Stress Relief", Kenneth explores meshing and solving and provides a short video of his work with Solid Edge Simulation.

For more, read Part I of the series, “First Encounter” (March 2, 20110). To watch animation clips of analysis results, visit DE Exchange and search for videos tagged SE with ST2.

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Kenneth Wong’s Review of Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2

Mar 03, 2010 - 01:45 PM

Desktop Engineering's Kenneth Wong reviews Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 on his blog, Virtual Desktop. In addition to the written review, he includes a five minute demo.

Here is an excerpt:

Years of tech reporting makes me allergic to marketing slogans. I take into account the possibility that a technology works flawlessly during a demo only because the presenters have used sleight-of-hand tricks to impress me over WebEx. But having used Solid Edge with ST, I can wholeheartedly agree with Siemens’ claim that it “combines the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling.

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The Electronic Binkie Designed with Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology

Jan 29, 2010 - 01:18 PM

If you like cars, then the word "electric" is probably becoming more and more common. According to Wikipedia, "electricity is one of the oldest automobile propulsion methods still in use today. In 1897, electric vehicles found their first commercial application as a fleet of electrical New York City taxis, built by the Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia, was established."

Siemens PLM customer from Holland, Spjkstaal is following in the innovation footsteps by recently designing an electric specialty vehicle in Solid Edge using synchronous modeling. The “Binkie” is the first electric garbage truck with a field press container on its end. Its performance is so good that it can easily compete with gas fueled garbage trucks and can pick up as many tons of garbage as a conventional garbage truck. It’s clean, quiet, and economical.

Video on Binkie and Solid Edge

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Maintenance pack (MP2) for Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2

Jan 11, 2010 - 03:09 PM

Solid Edge MP2 is now available. This latest update includes some important updates to our synchronous based sheet metal application as well as some other key updates. To get a list of all the updates, see the readme file listed on the GTAC website. Having access to periodic updates is yet another great reason to stay active with Solid Edge Maintenance. As Adam Carlson a Design Engineer for Back Cove Yachts says, "Editing in synchronous technology is amazing, there’s no worry about rebuilding and feature cleanup, we use synchronous technology for all of our solid modeling, it just does the job” Thanks, Kris Kasprzak Director, Solid Edge Marketing

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Free Webinar: Accelerate the move to 3D with synchronous technology

Nov 18, 2009 - 05:03 PM

If you are interested in seeing some more details on how Solid Edge can help you move to 3D, this short webinar should be interesting

Sit back and watch award-winning technology accelerate your move from 2D to 3D and virtually eliminate transitional down times. We show how Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2 lets you design in 3D while leveraging your 2D drawings and design experience.
What you’ll learn:

• Reduce design time through more data reuse
• Lower engineering costs through less training
• Maximize engineering knowledge by using familiar 2D concepts

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Maintenance pack (MP1) for Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2

Nov 17, 2009 - 04:38 PM

Solid Edge Community,

Just announced is the latest maintenance pack (MP1) for Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2. Part of this update adds support for Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit) versions. As a reminder general availability for Microsoft Windows 7 was on October 22, 2009.

Solid Edge customers with an active maintenance contract can download MP1 from our support website at http://support.ugs.com/.

Enjoy!

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Solid Edge wins Design News Golden Mousetrap Award

Sep 21, 2009 - 05:00 AM

We really appreciated the recent Manufacturing Business Technology Award and are equally proud to let you know Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology also won a Design News 2009 Golden Mousetrap Award in the Software category. The industry recognizes our technology as a major advancement in 3D CAD as this prestigious award goes out to the best and most innovative product.

Beth Stackpole writes “Sporting synchronous technology, the CAD tool melds the flexibility of history-free modeling with the control of feature-based systems…Perhaps no 3-D CAD company did as much to advance the trend as Siemens PLM Software with the introduction of synchronous technology.”

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Solid Edge Wins MBT Innovation Insight Award

Sep 18, 2009 - 02:56 PM

While our development team has always thought Solid Edge is the best CAD software, we are proud when it’s recognized by the industry.

Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine recently selected Solid Edge for a 2009 Innovation Insight Award in the “Most Innovative Product” category.

Manufacturing Business Technology’s Innovation Insight 2009: "Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology impresses product designers…impresses for its speed, power, and flexibility."

See page 20 to read about Solid Edge

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New review by the “infamous” one

Sep 02, 2009 - 02:40 PM

When you show your software to Develop3D editor/blogger and twitterer Al Dean, you wait to see if you get a grin or his infamous grimace:

Al took a look at Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 and had quite a bit to say about it. Here are a few excerpts:

• With the release of Solid Edge and Synchronous Technology (ST) around this time last year, Siemens set in motion a chain of events that hasn’t been seen since the launch of parametric history-based modeling which was 20 years ago. We now have a situation where the dynamic editing of geometry, without having to worry about time-consuming history recalculation, is gaining ground in all areas of industry.
• The interesting thing is that it’s possible to still retain much of the power of parametric modeling, using specific dimensions and relationships to both add design intent and to drive design change (something which has been misinterpreted by many).
• Siemens couldn’t apply Sync Tech to everything that was in previous versions of Solid Edge, but that was never its intention. Instead version one was laying the foundations to offer a lot more power than the original short feature list might give away
• Despite the revolutionary nature of the new technology, users weren’t forced to use Sync Tech. They still had all of the power of the parametric, history-based modeling tools that had been in Solid Edge for over a decade. Sync Tech was never intended as a replacement or an end to traditional modeling techniques, but rather to create a fork in the road. The traditional tools would continue down one fork, while the Sync Tech-based tools forged a new path. What’s interesting is that now, with Version 2, there are links between these two paths emerging and it’s all becoming clear.
• The launch of Synchronous Technology brought the concepts of direct/dynamic modeling technology to the fore and added a whole lot of intelligence. As the first system to benefit from it, Solid Edge received a huge amount of exposure - something it had needed for some time. At the same time, many pundits got carried away with the Sync Tech shift and simply forgot the fact that Solid Edge has 15 years worth of development behind its history-based modeling tools - and that these are still very much available for users.

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Synchronous Technology 2 Applied to Solid Edge Simulation

Jul 20, 2009 - 04:00 AM

With the release of Solid Edge ST last year, you likely saw a lot of press about the new Synchronous Technology. With the upcoming ST2 release of Solid Edge this technology was expanded to new areas, especially sheet metal.

However, did you know the new Solid Edge Simulation application is also integrated with Synchronous Technology? This is important because when you do finite element analysis you are not always just validating the existing design. Sometimes you want to do some model preparation or simplification of the geometry to improve results or cut down the analysis time. At times you want to modify the product design based on the results to make it lighter or stronger or better. These things require being able to manipulate the geometry.

The video below shows how Synchronous Technology can be used in a relatively simple analysis carried out in the upcoming Solid Edge ST2 release. If you use another CAD system, an FEA application, or even an older version of Solid Edge, think about how you might do the same things there. Do you have to transfer data between different applications? Do you need to understand how the designer put together the design in the history tree or worse, like below, do you just have a "dumb" part? Even if you have an integrated product from a high-end CAD system, is it this easy to do?

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Early indicators are positive

Jun 03, 2009 - 12:45 PM

We've received feedback from press, analysts and most importantly, the users, that Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 is going to be a great release. Dora Smith, our roving reporter from Nashville this week at PLM Connection, has met up with some users that are "test-driving" the latest release. Derrek Cooper had this to say via Twitter:

Derrek did a nice summary of the new Solid Edge Simulation on his blog, The Virtual Engineer. Even though he is an ex ANSYS user, we will convert him yet!

Here are a few recent articles that you should check out:

Kenneth Wong's Virtual Desktop: Synchronous Technology, Take Two

Ralph Grabowski's UpFront.eZine: Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2

Jeff Rowe's MCADCafe: Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 Announced

Jeff's article hits home on a couple key points:

· one of the biggest advantages of a non-history based approach is that it lets you make changes late in the design process, so they are not bound by the constraints and complications that a history tree can impose

· another one of the biggest advantages for a non-history-based approach -- 3D model data can be imported from just about any source for editing without the need for a translator/converter.

· The “synchronous” part of Synchronous Technology comes into play as the technology is intended to synchronize engineering relationships, features, and parameters through more direct model creation and editing. In other words, Synchronous Technology will synchronize feature recognition and constraint solving with geometry and topology. The non-history-based method does work especially well for working with pure geometry. Maybe a better way to go is “parametrics on demand,”

· So, while some of my peers may tend to look at the parts that are still missing with regard to Synchronous Technology, I’d rather dwell on the fact, that although my comments above are based on a single demo, Solid Edge has made definite progress since the first time around, and the company is committed to making it more comprehensive with future releases

And if you haven't done so already, download the FREE white paper from CPDA. The paper is a more in-depth look at Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2.

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Hitting the mark

May 25, 2009 - 09:00 PM

It seems like yesterday when Tony Affuso stood up at the Solid Edge User Group and announced the Velocity Series in 2005. Many people, both customers and media, were skeptical of our “modular yet integrated” suite of CAD, CAE, CAM and cPDM. Over time, we have proven successful and each year we are receiving positive feedback from those that really matter, our customers.

Now we are please to preview even more advances to our entire portfolio:

• Teamcenter Express V4.1 (now available)
• Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 (release summer 2009)
• Femap V10.1 (Release Summer 2009)
• CAM Express V7 (Release Fall 2009)

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“You have to see this!”

May 25, 2009 - 03:14 PM

When you become an adult, kids’ toys always seem so engaging. Did you ever wonder how some of the toys are made? We’ve recently had an opportunity to interview Bob Hadley at Razor Scooter. If your kid doesn’t have one, consider it for his or her next birthday. Bob’s story of how he moved from using AutoCAD to 3D with

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology is a fun one. Basically, a friend told him on Friday, “Come down to my office, you have to see this!” At the end of the two hour presentation, he made the decision to purchase Solid Edge. By Monday, he was using it. Now, the name Razor is to scooters as Kleenex is to tissues!

Not only do you need to see the Razor Scooter video and hear the whole story, you also need to

watch the synchronous technology for Part & Assembly to learn more how the new version allows:

• 2D dimensions migrate from drawings to become 3D driving dimensions
• Live sections for editing of 3D models using 2D cross sections
• History-free, sketch-based edits to helix features, blend reordering and more.

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What about Sheet Metal?

May 25, 2009 - 03:12 PM

Last year when we introduced synchronous technology in Solid Edge at PLM Connection in Orlando last year, several users were asked their opinion of the new announcement.

One user in particular was excited but quickly pointed out that without

synchronous technology in the sheet metal environment, he really couldn’t benefit from having the new technology. And that wasn’t the last we heard from users. In the Q&A of our main session, the first question from users was, “Will it be in Sheet Metal?” Now, we’re very happy to tell all Edgers that it’s HERE!

For all you sheet metal fans,

check out synchronous technology for sheet metal. The folks in Huntsville, have done a great job of making synchronous technology features available for sheet metal:
• Grab-n-go tools for quicker model development
• History-free feature-based modeling and editing
• Sheet metal-based procedural features
• Feature libraries designed for sheet metal
• 3D driving dimensions and relationships
• 3D stretching

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Produce “spectacular rainbow-colored images”

May 25, 2009 - 03:11 PM

There are engineers. There are specialists. And then there are design engineers who have enough knowledge to digitally validate designs without needing a degree to do it. Having

built in finite element analysis inside of your CAD system makes perfect sense.

One engineer commented “I always see these spectacular rainbow-colored images of products being stressed in the computer, but you have to have a PhD to figure out how to run the software.”

With the introduction of

Solid Edge Simulation, users who have a fundamental understanding of FEA principles, can now perform their own analysis without being a specialist!

Many of you may ask how does this differ from Simulation Express (formerly Femap Express)? Solid Edge Simulation

allows for both component to component and glued component analysis as well as a full complement of load and constraint definitions.

With Solid Edge Simulation, you can expect:
• Lower product costs
• Cut material costs
• Improve product quality
• Require fewer physical prototypes

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Get to the point!

May 25, 2009 - 02:23 PM

There are few names that are so well known that it doesn’t matter what country you visit, everyone knows the name. Microsoft is one of those names.

The SharePoint platform has been so wildly accepted as a premier business productivity solution by not only our customers, but mid-sized companies in general.  It should come as no surprise that in the Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 release we are announcing Solid Edge Insight on the latest Microsoft SharePoint platform.

With this release, Insight is now available on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We first introduced Solid Edge Insight on SharePoint in 2001 and to date, over 1000 customers have implemented its proven vault, search, and workflow management capabilities.

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Announcing Solid Edge With Synchronous Technology 2

May 25, 2009 - 10:05 AM

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