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Siemens PLM Software Announces Solid Edge ST3
13 Oct, 2010 By: Cadalyst StaffThe latest version upgrades synchronous technology to further improve design, validation, and collaboration.
Siemens PLM Software today announced the new ST3 version of its Solid Edge 2D/3D CAD system. Solid Edge ST3 uses what the company calls synchronous technology to deliver new functionality that accelerates product design, streamlines revisions, and simplifies importing and reusing third-party CAD data. The new release also includes enhancements related to simulation, design data management, and more than 1,000 customer-requested improvements.
Siemens’ synchronous technology is designed to help users perform a wide variety of CAD tasks in a fraction of the time it takes with a traditional approach. It promises significant time savings and lets users shift focus to the actual design tasks instead of thinking about how to use the software.
In addition to supporting the part modeling and sheet-metal design delivered in earlier versions, synchronous-based models now can be used directly with all assembly applications such as piping, frames, wiring, and assembly features. The software also provides synchronous-based part-to-part associativity that lets users establish and alter design intent before, during, or after the assembly design process.
Solid Edge ST3 can work with both synchronous and nonsynchronous features in the same integrated design environment. That is, users can leverage synchronous features for accelerated design and flexible edits while adding ordered features for designing process-type parts such as cast or machined parts. Ordered features in existing models can be moved selectively to the synchronous environment, providing designers with maximum flexibility and ease of use.
The integrated design approach lets users preserve existing ordered designs but selectively move features to synchronous features when edits are needed outside the creation method.
Solid Edge ST3 also lets users merge 2D drawings with existing 3D models. Manufacturing dimensions on 2D drawings now can be automatically transferred to a corresponding, imported 3D model. The resulting as-manufactured 3D dimensions can be edited immediately to modify the imported 3D model using synchronous technology.
New methods in Solid Edge ST3 take manufacturing dimensions from 2D drawings and migrate them to 3D driving dimensions on imported 3D models. This image shows newly added manufacturing dimensions such as distance between holes and overall height across multiple features.
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