Solid Edge ST software (Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology) is a groundbreaking release – delivering a new modeling paradigm that combines the speed and flexibility of explicit modeling with the control and predictability of parameterized design.
Whether you are a casual or expert user, Solid Edge ST allows you to innovate faster than your competition.

Solid Edge ST - Details

• Introduction
• Innovate faster with a new interactive design environment
• Iterate designs with unbounded speed and flexibility
• Edit outsourced CAD data faster than the vendor who supplied it
• Harness the power of 3D with the simplicity of 2D
• Create and manage designs within a single system

Solid Edge ST - Benefits

• Get a 100x faster design experience
• Perform ECOs in seconds instead of minutes or hours
• A system so fast and flexible you can edit imported models up to 100 times faster than the system it came from
• Reduced adoption times and improved usability allows more time to focus on 3D design
• Built-in data management ensures users have the correct data at the correct time

Solid Edge ST - Features

• Innovate faster with a new interactive design environment
• Integrated 2D and 3D sketching
• Region-based design
• Feature collections
• Parametric design
• Table- and formula-driven design
• 3D steering wheel handles
• Iterate designs with unbounded speed and flexibility
• Synchronous geometry solving
• Live rules
• Persisted 3D relationships
• Editable 3D driving dimensions
• Procedural features
• Detach and attach geometry
• Edit outsourced CAD data faster than the vendor who supplied it
• Structure-independent assembly editing
• Harness the power of 3D with the simplicity of 2D
• Microsoft Office 2007 style user interface
• Fence stretch 3D models
• Create and manage designs within a single system
• Integrated with the latest Teamcenter software products for data management
• Shop floor viewer
• Transparent PDM commands
• Fast drawing access

Solid Edge ST - Introduction

To maintain a competitive edge you need to out-innovate your competition and deliver products faster, such that you command market share and maximize your product’s potential.
Current 3D design technology has been around for some time. Even with the fastest computers and trained users, you feel like your current modeling technology is being stretched, stifling your ability to meet even greater demands on design throughput.>br /> Approximately every 10 years, a revolutionary change in CAD technology enables you to achieve decreasing design cycles. Now with synchronous technology, Solid Edge ST software delivers the next big breakthrough in 3D CAD design since the advent of parametric systems of the 1990s.

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology is the most complete feature-based 2D/3D CAD system available on the market today. It combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with precise control of dimension-driven design to provide the fastest, most flexible design experience possible.

Ready to revolutionize the way you think about 3D design, Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology allows you to:

• Innovate faster with a new interactive design environment
• Iterate designs with unbounded speed and flexibility
• Edit outsourced CAD data faster than the vendor who supplied it
• Harness the power of 3D with the simplicity of 2D
• Create and manage designs within a single system

Before synchronous technology, there were two main types of modeling systems: history-based systems and explicit modelers. History-based systems use a sequential feature tree to store the order of operations. These modelers are highly automated and dimension-driven, but lack editing flexibility and require some preplanning. These limitations make them less tolerant of ad hoc changes and require the editor to know the recipe or feature dependencies.
Edits are also subject to slow performance for larger models as change(s) requires the feature tree to recalculate each time a feature is edited

Explicit modeling provides direct interaction with geometry and provides flexible editing, but lacks control and the ability to establish design rules to manage change.
Because of these limitations explicit modeling is not much help in automating re-use of common components where preplanned "parameterized" changes can rapidly provide many variations of that same basic design.

With synchronous technology, Solid Edge ST redefines the rules for 3D modeling by combining the speed and flexibility of explicit modeling with control and parameterized design of a history-based system, allowing you to work directly on model geometry to create designs, edit more fluidly and innovate faster than your competition without increasing your current design team. Some of the highlights that enable you to design with a 100x faster design experience and make Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology such a groundbreaking release are:

• Live rules enable flexible editing by automatically maintaining relationships such as coplanar, tangent, concentric, horizontal or vertical within your 3D geometry, by intent or inference
• Procedural features allow you to change parameters for holes, patterns, thinwall and rounds, thereby maintaining feature-based design, without feature-to-feature dependencies
• Driving 3D dimensions can be added directly to completed models and edited, and directional options are offered to give the ultimate in control
• Table- and formula-driven design capabilities maintain highly automated, parametric design functions of Solid Edge
• Synchronous solve allows bi-directional direct geometry editing. Features can be edited regardless of the order they were created, eliminating any parent/child dependencies between features, either in a single part or across multiple components in an assembly