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22 April 2008
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CIMdata Highlight: Siemens PLM Software’s Synchronous Technology Announcement
Siemens PLM Solutions announced today a major technology that significantly enhances their CAD users’ capabilities to work in multi-CAD environments. This technology, called Synchronous Technology, allows NX and Solid Edge users to import and modify design data developed in many different CAD systems. Significantly, this technology expands the ease with which users can work with the imported data by allowing them to work on CAD models without having to know how the model was originally created; that is the historical context of the creation process and the feature and parametric constructs used to create the design. In other words, they do not have to follow any historical procedures and they do not have to be concerned with the order in which the original designer created features and parameters that comprise the model.
Synchronous Technology can automatically recognize certain types of features, can create a feature from a collection of user selected geometry, and infers parametric controls such as parallelism from user actions (selections) that subsequently can be used to modify the model. They can directly copy features from one model to another. A capability that we believe is unique to Synchronous Technology is that users maintain complete control over which parameters and features are stored with their imported, then saved models. This will allow users to return to the design later and continue working on saved features or making additional modifications freely without regard to any saved features.
Importantly, while some of the techniques available in Synchronous Technology have been demonstrated in other CAD systems, this is the first time a CAD provider has provided such an extensive capability within a major CAD solution. Synchronous Technology allows designers great flexibility in creating and modifying designs created in other CAD solutions. While the actual performance of these new techniques will need to be determined through actual use, they appear to be very fast and easy to use when compared to history-based solutions. Synchronous Technology is a major addition to the capabilities found in NX and Solid Edge and has potential application well beyond design. It should provide direct benefits to the multitude of organizations that use NX or Solid Edge and have to work with data from multiple CAD solutions.
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