
Growing your company, and your profitability, depends on your ability to innovate well and innovate quickly. Your success is measured by how well – and how quickly – you can design and launch winning products. The design process includes many iterations – as ideas are pursued and discarded. Early recognition of good ideas is critical. However, eliminating unsuccessful ideas (before further time, money and resources are expended) can be just as important.
You recognize that transforming your innovation process means moving to 3D, but you can’t afford to lose time or precious data.
While other companies force change, Siemens PLM Sofware enables change with a unique four-step evolution to the productive world of 3D. And Solid Edge’s 3D design process is your stepping stone to the competitive advantages of product lifestyle management, or PLM.
A fundamental component of the Velocity Series portfolio, Solid Edge is the only design system that allows you to expand your skills while maintaining productivity. With Solid Edge and other Velocity Series products, you bring together all members of your value chain, developing a collaborative environment for innovation that puts you on the fast track to PLM.
With Solid Edge, you can evolve from 2D to 3D with minimal disruption to your business. Using Siemens PLM Sotware’s proven “Evolve to 3D” process, you are positioned to respond to emerging risks and opportunities. Convert raw ideas into new business opportunities and increase your top-line revenue, all while decreasing costs through greater productivity, improved collaboration, reduced prototyping and fewer ECOs.
Once the path is defined, a solid model of the system of tubes or pipes is established along the path segment, creating an accurate virtual mockup. Designers can specify attributes such as size, extents and end treatments via simple dialog boxes. For piping systems, 3D pipes, fittings and components are automatically positioned and correctly oriented upon population. All components are fully associative and update with the parts to which they are connected. When the assembly model is modified, pipes and tubes automatically adapt to design changes.
With Solid Edge, you’re on the fast track to PLM…featuring our unique four-step evolution:

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