SIEMENS PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, with Solid Edge, has announced a breakthrough in digital product development with synchronous technology.
The technology is said to be the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) industry’s first history-free, feature-based modeling technology, which provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience than ever before.
The company’s technology combines constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling, and is being integrated into the company’s next versions of NXTM and Solid Edge(R) software.
“Siemens recognised the huge potential of synchronous technology during the due diligence process of acquiring UGS,” Siemens Industry Automation Division Anton Huber said.
“Knowing that the digital model is at the heart of our shared vision to unify the product and production lifecycles, we have worked together to accelerate this breakthrough in CAD technology. The digital model impacts every phase of the PLM process and is key to delivering innovation faster than ever before.”
“This new synchronous technology is a breakthrough,” Liebert Corp. PLM manager Jack Beeckman said.
“It marks a new era in modeling that allows an engineer the freedom to be an engineer.
Accelerated innovation
The technology is said to be the first design solution that simultaneously synchronizes geometry and rules through a decision-making inference engine.
It accelerates innovation in four key areas:
- Fast idea capture: Synchronous technology captures ideas as fast as the user thinks them, with up to 100 times faster design experience.
Designers can devote more time to innovation with new techniques that provide the efficiency of parametric dimension-modelling without the computational overhead of pre-planned dependencies.
The technology defines optionally persistent dimensions, parameters, and design rules at time of creation or edit, without the overhead of an ordered history.
- Fast design changes: The technology automates the implementation of planned or unplanned design changes to seconds versus hours through ease of editing, regardless of design origination, with or without the presence of a history tree.
- Improved multi-CAD reuse: The technology allows users to reuse data from other CAD systems without remodeling.
Users can succeed in a multi-CAD environment with a system that enables them to edit other CAD system data faster than they can in the original system, regardless of the design methodology.
A technique, called suggestive selection, automatically infers the function of various design elements without the need for feature or constraint definitions. This increases design reuse and OEM/supplier efficiency.
- New user experience: The technology provides a user interaction experience that simplifies CAD and makes 3D as easy to use as 2D.
The interaction paradigm merges historically independent 2D and 3D environments, providing the robustness of a mature 3D modeler with the ease of 2D.
New inference technology automatically infers common constraints and executes typical commands based on cursor position. This makes design tools simple to learn and use for occasional users, driving downstream use to manufacturing engineering and the shop floor.
3D design
“While there have been important advances in 3D design technology over the years, designers have not been able to create persistent features without the computational overhead needed to re-compute models from the construction history,” Siemens PLM Software executive vice president Chuck Grindstaff said.
“Traditional parametric modelling serially applies rules to geometry, helping to automate planned change but not addressing unanticipated engineering changes. History-less modeling concentrates on geometry in an unconstrained manner, but sacrifices intelligence and intent.
“The company’s synchronous technology incorporates the best of constrained and unconstrained techniques to deal with change in a powerful and efficient manner. Applying the right technique to the job at hand enables dimension-driven modeling to reach its full potential.”
"The technology’s ability to recognise current geometry conditions and localise dependencies in real time allows synchronous technology to solve for model changes without the typical replay of the full construction history from the point of edit,” CPDA PLM Research Director Dr. Ken Versprille said.
Key contact:
Siemens
info.plm@siemens.com
www.plm.automation.siemens.com
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