Maximizing the value of your brand: Solid Edge ® software provides a complete end-to-end design solution for aesthetic engineering, encouraging unrestricted creativity while speeding results. From your imagination to your desktop, Solid Edge takes the design from thought concept to design reality. Solid Edge – the tools you need for the designs you imagine. Solid Edge solutions for consumer product design www.siemens.com/solidedge Siemens PLM Software
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Maximizing the value of your brand: Solid Edge® software providesa complete end-to-end design solution for aesthetic engineering,encouraging unrestricted creativity while speeding results.From your imagination to your desktop, Solid Edge takes thedesign from thought concept to design reality.
Solid Edge – the tools you need for the designs you imagine.
Solid Edge solutions forconsumer product design
www.siemens.com/solidedgeSiemens PLM Software
It’s no secret that to besuccessful in the consumerproducts market you face someof the toughest challenges inthe manufacturing industry.Youare under intense and increasingpressure to maximize the valueof your brand by defining,designing and manufacturinginnovative products that get tomarket first.Winning marketshare means a continuousturnover of new designs thatoffer the consumer:
Aesthetically pleasing shapesSophisticated functionalityA practical human interfaceEnduring qualityThe right price
Being first to market hasmultiple benefits: you candemand a higher price for newand enhanced products. Beingon the shelf sooner meansbeing on the shelf longer.Andcapturing and satisfying newcustomers provides largeropportunities for futurerevenue.This translates intomaximum value for your brand.
Solid Edge, the leadingmainstream CAD solutionfrom Siemens PLM Software,can help you reap the benefitsof being first.With a uniqueapproach to aesthetic engin-eering, Solid Edge providesyou with a complete end-to-end industrial designand engineering solution,encouraging unrestrictedcreativity while speeding results.Solid Edge – the tools you needfor the designs you imagine.
Compared to traditionalapproaches, Solid Edge providesmore freedom and control forevaluating and manipulatingshapes in real time. Combinedwith a variety of process-oriented tools for shape design,plastics part modeling, sheetmetal, assembly design anddrawing creation, Solid Edgedelivers everything you needto get down to the businessof consumer product design.
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Aesthetic engineering: combining form with fit and function
“My tests prove that new surfacing tools in Solid Edgeprovide exactly what we need to design our deep fryers,steamers and coffee makers that appeal to the consumermarket. Solid Edge allows us to focus on modeling andspeeds time-to-market.”
Olivier PellerinGroupe SEBIs SurTille, France
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Solid Edge offers a practical solution for beating time, cost andquality objectives by extending your industrial design process toproduce both aesthetically pleasing designs and engineering-readydata. It is critically important to retain the industrial design intentthrough the engineering cycle. But you must also be able tomanufacture the product, at a suitable cost and retain its desiredtechnical function. It is logical then to combine the two processesas seamlessly as possible. Solid Edge does this by providing enoughflexibility for industrial designers to explore the appearance andfeel for a product, while creating the engineering data that definesperformance, value and manufacturability.
Form and function in a single modelThe net result of this approach is that each of your proposals ismodeled once, not twice. Form and function are contained withina single model. If an industrial designer changes something aboutthe outside shape, the mechanical features automatically updateto accommodate the change. Engineers don’t have to rework theinternal parts each time the external shape changes.
If you are looking for an advantage that will help you get to marketfaster, with an attention-grabbing product at the right price, SolidEdge is the answer. It is flexible enough to generate your desiredshapes, easy enough to make and communicate numerous changesand robust enough to maintain both the original design intent andthe necessary engineering knowledge throughout the design andmanufacturing process.
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Get the shape you want
Solid Edge is built on a foundation ofsuperior core modeling and processworkflows that help engineers design morerapidly by modeling parts more efficientlythan other CAD systems. For designersof more “stylistic” shapes, Solid Edge’srevolutionary Rapid Blue technologyovercomes the limitations of existing CADsystems and provides a new level of designcontrol and flexibility for designers,engineers and industrial designers, whileremaining easy to use and sympathetic tothe creative process.Tailored commands andstructured workflows help you get ideasfrom pen and paper into the computer anddesign much more quickly than general-purpose surface modeling tools.With RapidBlue, you get the shape you want, not justthe one your old CAD system wantsto give you.
Creativity with controlSolid Edge shatters the barriers of traditional modeling systems,combining the flexibility of nonhistory-based modelers that appealto industrial designers with the engineering benefits of a history-based approach.
While the history-based paradigm makes perfect sense for solidmodeling, it creates unnecessary complications when it comes tocomplex shape design. In contrast, nonhistory-based modelersprovide a more flexible modeling method, but at the expense ofautomating the update of related model elements – a key drawbackin modeling stylized parts which often require a significant numberof iterations.
An industry first, Rapid Blue unites the advantages of each ofthese respective modeling technologies. Unique to Solid Edge,Blue Dot provides a flexible system in which the order curvesare created places no restrictions on editing, yet provides allthe benefits of properly updating related geometry whenchanges are made.
Unsurpassed flexibilityIndustrial design is, by nature, a creative process that involvesa great deal of editing as designs evolve. Curves are the foundationfor all modeling. It is critical that they are able to represent thedesired shape and be highly flexible in their editing.
Recognizing this, Rapid Blue provides unique “shape-preserving”curves, which encapsulate in their behavior the ability to preservetheir general shape characteristics such that your original design intentis built into each curve. For example, if a curve is convex along itsentire length (as many consumer product designs’ main faces are) itwill remain convex through all but the most extreme edits.
As a result, you save significant time when creating and editingdesigns using shape-preserving curves and experience less fatigueand frustration as Solid Edge automates an otherwise highlytedious process.
“Rapid Blue dramatically expands product possibilitiesby delivering direct freeform surface interaction inmainstream CAD. Rapid Blue’s dynamic feedback ofsurface creation and edit leapfrogs comparable solutionsin providing flexible design capabilities.”
KenVersprille, Ph.D.Research Director of D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.
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Evaluate more ideas in less timeEngineers and designers design interactively, more so in industrialdesign than anywhere else. Because the style of the part is akey component, you explore many more alternatives.And thesubjective element of industrial design calls for the ability tomake changes with continual feedback of the results.
With the dynamic edit capabilities of Rapid Blue, you can edityour designs and see the results instantly as you drag your cursoron the screen.All design intent and history are preserved and thegraphics update on every mouse move.This unique Solid Edgefeature means that more iterations can be tried in a shortertime, improving product quality and acceptance. For the first time,you can now interactively tweak highlight lines and see the effectson all downstream rounds, fillets and blends.
A workflow for the way you designYour designs typically evolve over time, particularly given inputfrom the various players as they see the design progress. Forexample, after review, it may be decided that more flair is neededin one area of the product – a change that can only be achieved
by swapping a simple arc for a more flexible curve.With traditionalsystems, this would require a significant amount of rework, includinghaving to manually repair the history tree if the change is severe.In contrast, Rapid Blue presumes that change is necessaryand that starting simple and adding further control later is avaluable workflow.
Convert to Curve and BlueSurf are two key technologies enablinga truly iterative workflow. Convert to Curve allows analyticelements, such as lines and arcs, to be converted to nurbs witha single click.With no loss of shape data, the elements becomeeditable curves. Even more importantly, this conversion does notdestroy the downstream work that has been completed. BlueSurfacknowledges and accommodates the inevitable increase in controlrequired as designs progress. BlueSurf is the only technology in theindustry to incorporate sweep, loft and blend into a single simple-to-use command. So, when appropriate, that initial simple sweep canbe made more elaborate without having to manually repairthe feature tree.
“Solid Edge users now have the best of all worlds witha powerful solid and surface modeling system alignedwith a sophisticated database system for managingproduct designs.”
Industry analystRay KurlandPresidentTechniCom Inc.
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Design faster with built-in processes
Solid Edge helps you design your productsfaster, while automatically building inmanufacturability. Specialized workflows andengineering aids embody processes that areessential for consumer product design.
2D to 3D wizards.Wizards allow you tobegin with 2D sketches and scanned imagesof your product designs and quickly createsophisticated 3D models.
Plastic part modeling. Automatedworkflows combine the powerful shape-creation capabilities of BlueSurf withengineering features that are critical in thedesign and manufacturing of plastic parts.An extensive list of features includes simplifiedweb and rib modeling, one-step lip andgroove creation, part splitting and associativecore-cavity construction.
Sheet metal design.The most advanced sheet metal designsoftware in the industry allows you to create product enclosuresusing standard sheet metal and fabrication terminology. Streamlinedmodeling commands quickly create tabs, flanges, louvers, dimples,cutouts, mitered corners, corner breaks and other sheet metal-specific part features.Automated placement of bend relief, bendallowance calculations and flat pattern development meanscomponents are designed ready for manufacturing.
Wire harness.The Solid Edge wire harness design package utilizeselectrical circuit diagrams from popular eCAD systems to automatewire harness designs in Solid Edge. Electrical and mechanicaldesign teams are able to collaborate more closely, creatingcomplete digital mockups that include cables and wires.Dedicated tools deliver streamlined ways to create wires,cables and bundles. Correct cut-length information is easilyaccessible for manufacturing.
Mechanisms. Built-in mechanism analysis helps you checkthe validity of moving parts, such as handles and openingcovers. Solid Edge automatically captures motion intelligencein assemblies, so you can quickly and accurately simulatemovement, detect interferences and create animations.
Design rule sensors. Sensors are unique Solid Edge designaids that provide continual feedback on engineering rules andvariables as the design develops.You can ensure that industrialdesign is in line with engineering by automatically monitoringkey distances, surface areas, physical properties and otherdesign variables while developing the model.
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Avoid costly fit errors
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“Grouping parts in the System Library instead of insubassemblies will let our design engineers focus oncomponents as functional systems.”
Chris OesterleCADD SupportLiebert Corp.Columbus, Ohio
From the very beginning, Solid Edge helps you build correctfit and engineering function into your designs, without limitingyour creativity to produce eye-catching stylistic products.Solid Edge’s progressive assembly design techniques automaticallybuild intelligence into your assemblies, helping you to createcomplete, accurate digital mockups fast and avoid costlymistakes in fit.
Hybrid 2D/3D layout drives top-down design by defining spatialenvelopes and constraints for internal components. 2D sketches canbe used to create or modify their 3D models.You can ensure thatyour parts fit accurately by designing them within the assemblymodel, using geometry from adjacent parts or sketches.To reduceassembly modeling time, you can “teach” parts to automatically snapinto position with proper mating and alignment relationships.
Functional designs for rapid product introductionsUnique to Solid Edge, System Libraries provide new levels ofproductivity for re-using subsystems. More than just simple sub-assemblies, Systems Libraries allow you to define, store and re-usecommon parts prevalent in component packaging, along with theirassociated features and relationships. Complete arrangements ofparts can be quickly snapped into place, automatically building allthe necessary relationships and adding or removing material forsupporting features such as holes, bosses and brackets. Yourengineers can provide industrial designers with ready-to-usesystems that incorporate known design parameters and rules,dramatically speeding up assembly design and improving yourconfidence in the finished product.
And Solid Edge helps you explore more design alternatives in lesstime by quickly and easily restructuring assemblies, creating familiesof assemblies to evaluate different product configurations andmodeling assemblies with moving parts in their alternate positions.
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ConceptCompanies designing consumer products need to maintain a criticalbalance between producing creative and unique products and workingwithin extremely tight windows of opportunity. Solid Edge offers a newlevel of design control that is flexible enough to meet the creative needsof industrial designers, while remaining easy to use.Tailored commandsand structured workflows help transition concepts from pen and paperinto the computer, enabling you to turn ideas into reality.Generatingideas in 3D allows you to communicate concepts more thoroughly.From simple images through to photorealistic renderings and animations,realistic presentations provide a significant advantage when presenting toclients.Once the business is won, your designs are already validatedfor fit and function, speeding the time-to-market.
StylingSolid Edge boosts design productivity for complex geometry with exclusiveRapid Blue technology.With Rapid Blue, you get the shape you want, notthe one the CAD system wants to give you. Shape-preserving curves retainthe original shape even through complex edits. Blue Dot editing introducesan industry first by addressing order dependency and providing greaterfreedom and control for evaluating and manipulating shapes in real time.Complemented by a variety of process-oriented tools for shape design anddynamic editing, Rapid Blue shatters the barriers of traditional “history-based” surface modeling.With fewer steps needed to create and editcomplex shapes, you can evaluate more alternatives in real time.
DesignPlastic parts, common in consumer products, present interestingchallenges for the designer.Not only do plastic parts need to beaesthetically pleasing, they must be functional and manufacturableas well. Process-oriented tools take the complexity out of commondesign tasks.The ability to add typical engineering features, such asstrengthening webs,mounting bosses and vents, allows you to easily addfunction to your plastic parts and speed the completion of your designs.Solid Edge was developed from the ground up with a focus on assembly-centric design. By focusing not only on how parts fit together, but alsohow components function and interact, you can create 3D functionalprototypes that help you optimize and differentiate your designs.
SimulationSolid Edge provides two complementary methods for your designs tobe analyzed and validated much earlier in the design cycle.The first –Femap® Express software – offers step-by-step process guidance for fastand accurate analysis of components. Second, Solid Edge provides single-button associative transfer of Solid Edge parts and assemblies toFemap, the leading CAD-independent finite element analysis (FEA) toolfor advanced analysis to ensure quality and optimize materials withincomplete assemblies. Both solutions utilize the well-proven Nastransolver technology for accurate and repeatable results. Engineers andanalysts use Femapto virtually simulate a complete range of productbehavior before committing to expensive product development plans.This process ensures higher product quality, lower development costsand reduced product development time.
ToolingBased on the aesthetic nature of many consumer products, thedesign of mold tooling is critical to achieving time-to-marketobjectives. Solid Edge MoldTooling is an integrated add-onpackage that establishes a powerful step-by-step processworkflow for the design and manufacture of plastic injectionmolds. Solid Edge MoldTooling offers dramatic time-savingpotential by removing much of the repetition prevalent inmold tooling design, allowing you additional time for moreimportant tasks.With accurate core and cavity creation,an extensive choice of industry-standard mold bases,automated generation of all required components andassociative electrode design, Solid Edge MoldToolingcompletes your mold designs faster and reduces cost.
MachiningWith our partners, Siemens provides capabilities forcomprehensive machining and shop floor management.Solid Edge files are associatively transferred to providea complete solution for machine-tool programmingand to maximize the efficiency of manufacturingengineers and NC programmers. Solid Edge MoldTooling is also complemented by the Solid EdgeElectrode Design application, extending the time-savingpotential for mold tooling beyond design and intomanufacturing.Users are guided through a logicalstep-by-step approach to develop single or compoundelectrodes that are frequently necessary in themanufacturing of complex mold components.
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Scalable design management
A new standard in CAD/PDM integrationWith its groundbreaking Insight technology, Solid Edge became theonly mainstream mechanical system to merge design managementcapabilities with the CAD tools that designers use every day.Setting a new standard in CAD/PDM integration, Solid Edge buildson the success of Insight, letting customers choose from a rangeof easily scalable cPDM solutions. Solid Edge Insight continuesto provide proven management capabilities for departmental teams.Solid Edge’s integration with the powerful Teamcenter® softwareplatform provides seamless and transparent connectivitybetween the applications.All essential Solid Edge commands areencapsulated, making sophisticated data management functionseasily available to the Solid Edge user. Solid Edge-related data iseasily captured for re-use in future projects without placing anadditional burden on the CAD user, while full scalability meanscustomers can grow their cPDM solution to meet growingbusiness demands without starting from scratch.
Solid Edge Insight, delivered with every seat of Solid Edge,is an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates CAD, designmanagement and web-based collaboration into a single tool thatis easy to implement and easy to manage. Insight removes theperceived barriers to successful PDM implementation, whileproviding the fundamental capabilities for well-defined workgroupsto successfully manage Solid Edge data.
Teamcenter Express software is a preconfigured, easy-to-deployand easy-to-use product data management solution and the entrypoint into the powerful Teamcenter platform.Teamcenter Expressis designed for mid-sized manufacturing companies that need tocollaborate across multiple departments and across multiple sites,support multiple design systems and require additional workflowcapabilities to manage product release and ECOs.TeamcenterExpress helps companies to transform their process of innovationby applying preconfigured best practices to everyday engineeringtasks and processes.
For companies requiring a complete PLM solution, Solid Edgeprovides a seamless CAD-centric integration with Teamcenter’sengineering process management software, the industry standardfor cPDM. Teamcenter provides flexible and configurable managementsolutions addressing the full PLM process in a global environment.
Unlike traditional PDM solutions, the Solid Edge integration withtheTeamcenter platform makes sophisticated data managementfunctions completely transparent to the designer. Both Solid Edgeand Teamcenter are developed by Siemens, ensuring a level ofintegration that is updated and synchronized with every release.
Communicate your ideas
With Solid Edge’s innovative tools, you will quickly develop newand alternative designs in response to customer requirements,and Solid Edge allows you to clearly communicate your proposeddesigns through realistic images and animations.You can also createweb pages using a simple wizard, so your customers can examineyour designs in detail, using only a standard web browser.
Photo-quality imagesRendering tools in Solid Edge help you communicate your designseffectively and with photo-realistic style.You can quickly and easilycreate high-quality images of Solid Edge parts and assemblies forpresentations, design reviews and sales or marketing efforts. SolidEdge renders models with special effects including colored lightsources, shadows, background imagery, translucency, anti-aliasing,reflection, textures and bump mapping. Shading options includehidden line, phong shading and true ray tracing.
AnimationsSolid Edge Virtual Studio provides the capability to create fly-bys.Built-in wizards allow you to simply produce a flight path and
duration, and save the resulting animation as a movie in standardAVI format. In addition, Solid Edge includes a built-in motion analysispackage that captures motion intelligence directly from Solid Edgeassemblies.You can quickly and accurately simulate movement,detect and correct interferences and create animations of the fullrange of assembly motion.
Web publishingSolid Edge Web Publisher is an integrated add-on package thatmakes it extremely fast and easy to share design information overthe Internet or company intranets.Web Publisher is seamlesslyintegrated with Solid Edge, so you can publish web pages withSolid Edge 3D models and related data in seconds, without anyweb publishing expertise. Solid Edge Web Publisher makes partand assembly models accessible with the standard MicrosoftInternet Explorer web browser, so design information can beeasily distributed to anyone who needs it – providing a meansto address form, fit and function issues very early in thedesign process.
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An end-to-end solution
AnalysisSolid Edge provides two complementary methods for designs to beanalyzed and validated much earlier in the design cycle.The first –Femap Express – offers step-by-step process guidance for fast,accurate analysis of solid and sheet metal parts. Second, SolidEdge has single-button associative transfer of Solid Edge parts andassemblies to full-blown Femap, the leading CAD-independent finiteelement analysis (FEA) tool for advanced analysis to ensure qualityand optimize materials within complete assemblies. Both solutionsutilize well-proven Nastran solver technology for accurate andrepeatable results.
ManufacturingSolid Edge Mold Tooling established a powerful step-by-step processworkflow for removing much of the repetition prevalent in thedesign of plastic injection molds, allowing mold tool manufacturersto design complex mold tooling using Solid Edge models. MoldTooling is complemented by Solid Edge Electrode Design, providinga streamlined process-oriented workflow for developing electrodesthat are frequently necessary in the manufacture of complexmold components.
Solid Edge and NX® Machining software provide single-buttonassociative transfer of Solid Edge data to NXMachining – Siemensindustry-leading manufacturing solution. Components designedin Solid Edge can be easily transferred to NX Machining formanufacture. NX Machining is aware of any design changes carriedout in Solid Edge; changes in geometry will result in the part beingupdated in NX Machining and tool paths will be regenerated,saving both time and effort.
Voyager ProgramTo help you leverage your design data, the Solid Edge VoyagerProgram unites best-in-class suppliers of complementarysoftware solutions and services to offer you an integratedend-to-end solution.
With more than 170 members worldwide, you can benefit fromthis seamless integration by being able to pick the solution ofyour choice.
Our Voyager Certified Select solutions support processes such as:
In addition, Solid Edge-equipped Voyager B2B suppliers are readyto assist with your outsourcing needs, from design servicesto sheet metal and tooling.
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Maximize the value of your brand
Solid Edge helps you transform creative ideas into deliverable,attention-grabbing products – ahead of your competition andat lower cost.
Solid Edge maximizes the value of your brand by:
• Combining industrial design and engineering to provide acomplete end-to-end design solution for aesthetic engineering
• Allowing your designers to get the shape they want, notjust the one their old CAD system wants to give them
• Rapidly creating and evaluating large numbersof alternatives
• Enhancing flexibility to optimize form, fit and function in realtime, while maintaining design intent and manufacturabilitythroughout the design process
• Reducing engineering changes by eliminating fit and functionerrors, and crushing the time required to make and communicatedesign change requests when necessary
• Including more people throughout the design process,allowing users to manage collaboration with otherdepartments and suppliers
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Solid Edge combines powerful tools for industrialdesign and engineering to provide you with acomplete end-to-end design solution for aestheticengineering – encouraging unrestricted creativity,while speeding results.
With much more freedom and control forevaluating and manipulating shapes in real time andpowerful workflows for plastics part modeling,sheet metal, assembly design and drawing creation,Solid Edge delivers everything you need to getdown to the business of consumer product design.
To learn more about how the design that is inyour head can be the one that ends up in thecomputer, visit www.solidedge.com or contactyour local reseller.
About Solid Edge
Solid Edge software is a powerful hybrid 2D/3D design system and a core component of the
UGSVelocity Series portfolio that enables manufacturing companies to achieve competitive
advantage through cost reduction while increasing top-line revenues.With superior part and
assembly modeling, along with drafting, transparent data management and built-in finite element
analysis, Solid Edge delivers the benefits of a fully integrated and managed design system that
eases the growing complexity of product design.
About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), is a leading global
provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.3 million licensed
seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano,Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s
open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate
through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more
information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.
