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SolidEdge release 20 has always excelled at delivering process-specific tools and applications, like sheet metal and wire harness design that speed up design cycles.
Some of these tools, like engineering reference which designs parts using engineering calculations, were designed specifically to address issues faced by engineers.
Version 20 introduces a brand new "goal seeking" capability for engineers to solve engineering problems that are more easily expressed graphically in 2D and in real time.
- SolidEdge Goal Seeking takes graphical engineering problem solving to a new level and avoids labor intensive iterative calculations
by allowing design engineers to perform two-dimensional what-if engineering calculations, with a combination of 2D parametric geometry, mathematical formulas, variables and part properties.
Knowing the target value of an engineering calculation, Goal Seeking allows users to set certain parameters, while the system varies other factors to achieve the desired result.
Goal seeking concepts, familiar to many in Excel spreadsheets, have now been applied to engineering and design by allowing engineers to solve problems that are best expressed graphically.
Results can be used to drive 3D geometry in a true hybrid 2D/3D design environment SolidEdge release 20 has a long history of delivering leading edge tools that enhance productivity,
including such innovations as Rapid Blue shape design, process-oriented design tools, systems design and direct editing.
As always SolidEdge release 20 excels at adding practical, productive enhancements suggested by our users.
For version 20, over 170 enhancements have been added to part design and drafting (some, for example Goal Seeking, are included in our SolidEdge Free 2D software) that will drive further productivity gains. Here are just a few.
- Feature grouping in release 20 of SolidEdge allows design engineers to model with more efficiency and clarity, enabling them to be more productive and speed up change requests.
Feature grouping is an efficient way to organize and understand part features used to describe SolidEdge part models that reduce the feature history and group multiple features used for a single detail to speed up feature library creation.
Fast feature reordering with validation checking provides robust design integrity
- Design sensors and variables have helped many SolidEdge release 20 customers make fast design changes, re-purpose existing designs and ensure products are designed right the first time.
The latest improvements to Sensors provide enhanced notification graphics with detailed advice that identify design violations as they occur.
New variable limits allow the engineer to define limits on his SolidEdge release 20 variables or define that they must have a discrete list value.
By notifying the user when variable inputs are out of limit or not on the specified list, greater engineering integrity is achieved
- Tabulated drawings eliminates the need for multiple drawings to describe each individual member of multiple part families.
One drawing can now be used to describe them all, improving the opportunity for re-use and decreasing the need for redundant documentation
- Feature library tips capture and provide advice on design intent when re-using knowledge capture during feature library creation
 In addition to all the above feature enhancements and staying consistent with its "native Microsoft" strategy,
release 20 now supports Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Direct 3D graphics, allowing SolidEdge release 20 to take advantage of improved graphics performance and improved search facilities.
SolidEdge release 20 is the core design component of the UGS Velocity Series software portfolio of modular yet integrated, preconfigured and easy-to-deploy design,
manufacturing and data management solutions that also include applications for cPDM, analysis and CAM.
For release 20, SolidEdge brings new focus to three key design areas benefiting both designers and engineers: driving design collaboration across all points of the value chain;
enhancing plant equipment design; and lifting engineering productivity to new levels.
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