CAD technology enables up to 100x faster design experience

Siemens PLM Software’s synchronous technology is the next big breakthrough in digital product development. The CAD technology is the PLM industry’s first-ever history-free, feature-based modeling technology that provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience than ever before.

The patent-pending technology combines constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling, and is being integrated into the company’s next versions of NX 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, fast design changes, improved multi-CAD reuse, and new user experience.

The synchronous technology captures ideas as fast as the user thinks them. 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.

Moreover, 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.

Users can 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. This increases design reuse and OEM/supplier efficiency.

It 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. This makes design tools simple to learn and use for occasional users, driving downstream use to manufacturing engineering and the shop floor.