Solid Edge Version 18 continues delivering new and
innovative ideas to customers in diverse marketplaces, helping them "Design
with Insight" to reduce costs, deliver products to market faster, save time
and make them more visually appealing. The end result - customers who use
Solid Edge sell more in their respective marketplaces.
Solid Edge is now a core component of the new UGS Velocity Series of PLM
products – a family of modular and integrated, preconfigured,
easy-to-deploy, design and data management solutions, that also includes
Teamcenter® Express for cPDM and Femap® for analysis.
Solid Edge Teamcenter Integration
The new Solid Edge Embedded Client
provides seamless and transparent connectivity between Solid Edge
and Teamcenter, the de facto standard in cPDM. This integration
enables the capture of Solid Edge-related data for re-use in future
projects. Unlike traditional approaches to CAD-PDM integration, the
Solid Edge-Teamcenter integration is designed to make sophisticated
data management functions completely transparent to the Solid Edge
user. Many other PDM solutions today are “bolt on,” meaning there is
a separate user interface and a set of PDM commands running
alongside the CAD system. This dual command set is often from
different vendors and can be confusing and counterproductive. In
contrast, the Solid Edge Embedded Client is completely transparent
to the end user. Complete CAD coverage ensures all essential Solid
Edge commands are encapsulated, providing access to a complete
product lifecycle management solution without placing any additional
burden on the CAD user
Femap Express and Femap Integration
Created specifically for design engineers, Femap Express provides
preconfigured, best-practice, process guidance to the user for
simple finite element analysis. Using the same process-based
approach found within other Solid Edge capabilities. Finite element
technology is presented to the user in an easy-to-follow workflow
using Solid Edge’s patented SmartStep approach, and detailed
analysis tasks are undertaken within a single
Solid Edge window. Femap Express provides static analysis where
stress, deflection and factor of safety can be analysed or modal
analysis where natural frequencies can be analysed. Femap Express is
delivered as part of Solid Edge Classic.
Solid Edge models can also now be associatively passed to the full
Femap product from Solid Edge for more detailed and advanced
analysis types, including static, modal, buckling, heat transfer and
nonlinear studies for parts and assemblies
Wire Harness Design
Solid Edge Wire Harness Design is a dedicated process-driven
environment for the efficient creation, routing and organization of
wires, cables and bundles in a Solid Edge assembly. Wire Harness
Design allows electrical and mechanical design teams to collaborate
on designs to create complete and accurate digital mock-ups
containing both mechanical and electrical components and removing
the need for expensive physical
prototypes. Design violations such as exceeding physical bundle size
or a bend radius being too tightly routed are constantly monitored
as the harness is being designed; live feedback displays any
problems for rectification. Reporting of cable and wire cut length
and attributes (allowing for a slack percentage and wire stripping)
are captured during the harness design process. The export of
ready-to-use net list files adds these mechanical attributes to
generate harness designs that are ready for manufacturing.
The unique harness wizard allows mechanical engineers to
automatically generate and route physical wires and cables. The
harness wizard uses input from dedicated electrical schematics
applications such as Mentor Graphics, Cimteam and Vesys to
automatically transfer any net-list components and connections to
Solid Edge. Using the wizard, engineers can quickly establish a “rat
nest” of wires from a predefined connector on one component to a
corresponding connector on another
Integrated Diagramming
Many companies are now switching to 3D design systems to cut costs,
improve quality and remain competitive. The popular UGS Evolve to 3D
program provides four easy steps to help many companies transition
from 2D to 3D. UGS recognizes that some design problems are still
best solved using simple 2D geometry, such as machine layouts and
schematic
diagrams. Solid Edge diagramming lets you develop electrical, &ID
and other diagrams by leveraging industry standard libraries of 2D
blocks. These innovative 2D capabilities further strengthen Solid
Edge’s ability to create and maintain 2D drawings and remove the
need for companies to maintain separate CAD systems for 2D and 3D
requirements. Three main components make up the diagramming
capabilities, blocks, connectors and the ability to convert native
DWG blocks
Electrode Design
Solid Edge Mold Tooling established a powerful step-by-step process
workflow for removing much of the repetition prevalent in the design
of plastic injection molds. Version 18 extends this dramatic
time-saving potential beyond tooling design and into manufacturing,
with a new Electrode Design application.
NX Machining Associativity
Solid Edge Version 18 includes an upgrade to the existing
integration of Solid Edge and NX Machining – now providing
single-button associative transfer of Solid Edge part, sheet metal
or assembly documents to NX Machining ready for manufacture.
NX Machining is a complete solution for machine-tool programming,
applying leading-edge technology and advanced machining methods to
maximize efficiency of manufacturing engineers and NC programmers
