Siemens PLM Software Delivers Breakthrough in Digital Product Development with Synchronous Technology - PLM & Digital Manfacturing

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced a big breakthrough in digital product development with synchronous technology, the PLM industry’s history-free, feature-based modeling technology, that provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience than ever before.

Siemens PLM Software’s new patent-pending technology combines the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling, and is being integrated into the company’s next versions of NXTM and Solid Edge software.  The technology is the first-ever design solution that simultaneously synchronizes geometry and rules through a new 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-driven modeling 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 thorough unparalleled 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 fast, flexible 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.  

• New user experience: The technology provides a new 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.  

The patent-pending technology was jointly developed between Siemens PLM Software’s NX and Solid Edge organizations.  Siemens PLM Software’s synchronous technology will be implemented in the next versions of both Solid Edge and NX as a proprietary application layer built on its D-Cubed and Parasolid software.