Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the latest release of Solid Edge software for product design, engineering and manufacturing. Solid Edge’s new look and feel brings an update to include more intuitive ways of working, greater personalisation options and improved modeling workflows, noted John Miller, Senior Vice President, of Mainstream Engineering Software, Siemens.
He said, 'Alongside our work to bring innovative technology and capability to each release of Solid Edge, covering everything from 3D design through advanced CAM and into technical publications, it’s key that we also evolve how we make these capabilities available to our community. We’re now introducing new licensing options designed to better meet the changing business needs of small and medium-sized manufacturers, providing greater flexibility, more value and, with Xcelerator Share, greater collaboration and speed.”
Updates to the geometry definition tools in Solid Edge include synchronous technology applied to traditional ordered history-based parts, and parts created using convergent modelling (using generative design or from 3D scans) can be used in simulations without the need for additional conversion.
The new Solid Edge Inspector add-on brings tools to identify automatically, label, and extract critical design and manufacturing characteristics for inspection and metrology purposes, automatically generating high-quality inspection data and reports that facilitate communication in downstream manufacturing processes.
New advanced manufacturing capabilities include new Roughing for 5-Axis Machining in Solid Edge CAM Pro, a new 4-axis Rotary Machining add-on and new wire EDM functionality. The new Smart Machine Kits library provides easy access to standardised, professionally built machine simulation kits for those working at the leading edge of machining.