Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2

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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