Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens IndustryAutomation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.6 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide.Headquartered in Plano,Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit

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About Velocity Series

Velocity Series is a comprehensive family of modular, yet integrated solutions addressing the product lifecycle management (PLM) needs of the mid-market.Consisting of a preconfigured family of digital product design, analysis,manufacturing and data management software offerings, Velocity Series leverages the industry’s best practices to provide significant breakthroughs in ease-of-use and deployment. Emerging manufacturers can leverage the power of Velocity Series to transform their process of innovation while maintaining a low total cost of ownership; and allVelocity Series products are completely scalable to the full range of Siemens PLM Software’s industry leading, enterprise-level PLM portfolio.

Solid Edge® software, a powerful hybrid 2D/3D design system from Siemens PLM Software, is a core component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio that enables manufacturing companies to achieve competitive advantage through cost reduction while increasing top-line revenues.With superior part and assembly modeling along with drafting, transparent data management, and built-in finite element analysis, Solid Edge delivers the benefits of a fully integrated and managed design system that eases the growing complexity of product design.

Solid Edge software is a powerful hybrid 2D/3D design system from Siemens that provides superior part and assembly modeling along with drafting, transparent data management, and built-in finite element analysis. With superior core modeling and process workflows, a unique focus on the needs of specific industries, and fully integrated design management, Solid Edge guides projects toward an errorfree, accurate design solution.

Solid Edge modeling and assembly tools enable your engineering team to easily develop a full range of products, from single parts to assemblies containing thousands of components. Tailored commands and structured workflows accelerate the design of features common in specific industries and you ensure accurate fit and function of parts by designing, analyzing and modifying them within the assembly model.With Solid Edge, your products come together right first time, every time.

Solid Edge is the only mainstream mechanical system that merges design management capabilities with the CAD tools that designers use every day. Solid Edge customers have a choice of scalable product data management solutions that manage designs as quickly as they are created. Practical tools for managed collaboration help to better coordinate design team activities and remove the errors that result from miscommunication.

Product and process complexity is a growing concern for manufacturing organizations.Thousands of companies around the world have come to rely on Solid Edge to battle this increasing complexity head-on.Taking advantage of Solid Edge’s family of modular and integrated solutions, they are first to benefit from the CAD industry’s most functional innovations, first to complete their designs, first to market with an error-free product.

Superior modeling

Solid Edge is built on a foundation of superior modeling workflows that help engineers design more rapidly than other CAD systems. Solid Edge harnesses the power of Siemens’ Parasolid® software, the most powerful geometric modeling kernel. This combination of software allows users to create the most complex products faster. Designers of stylized products can take advantage of shapes such as Solid Edge’s revolutionary Rapid Blue, while remaining easy to implement and use.

Rapid Blue: a new paradigm for shape design

Solid Edge boosts design productivity for complex geometry with exclusive Rapid Blue technology.With Rapid Blue,“you get the shape you want�, not the one the CAD system wants to give you. Shape preserving curves retain the original shape even through complex edits. Blue Dot editing introduces an industry first by enabling history-free editing in real time. Complemented by a variety of new processoriented tools for shape design and dynamic editing, workflows are significantly reduced so designers can evaluate more alternatives to get the right design.

Process-specific features

Solid Edge boosts design productivity of complex geometry with tailored commands and structured workflows that are faster and more efficient than general purpose modeling tools. Process-specific features are streamlined modeling commands that represent common forms and functions, such as web networks, cooling vents and mounting bosses.These features were once traditionally cumbersome or impossible to model, but with Solid Edge, they are created with a single command.

Industry-leading sheet metal

Sheet metal is a core design capability of Solid Edge, with support for the entire design-through-fabrication process. From streamlined modeling commands that are tailored to the unique needs of sheet metal design through flat pattern development and the creation of engineering drawings, Solid Edge delivers the most advanced sheet metal CAD package available.

The Solid Edge Voyager Program

Solid Edge is the cornerstone of a full cycle solution that helps transform mechanical designs into deliverable products faster and at lower cost.High-performance solutions integrated with Solid Edge can automate design and manufacturing tasks.Over 200 highly integrated companies in the Solid EdgeVoyager program are ready to help.The program includes many companies in these specialized areas:

User groups

Solid Edge user groups are a great way of sharing ideas and learning from other Solid Edge users. Learn new ways to use Solid Edge and reach its maximum potential.These groups include educational workshops, hands-on training, new tips and technique sessions and input roundtables.

User certification

The Solid Edge Professional Certification Program is an opportunity to become formally trained on Solid Edge.Having expert knowledge helps companies know that they have the best.

News group

Users love to help users, and the Solid Edge news group is an excellent way to share ideas and solutions.Customers can actively participate and collaborate across a wide variety of subjects.

Unmatched interoperability with the extended enterprise

Siemens has a clear and consistent development strategy of providing a level of integration unique to the industry. Siemens is the leader in providing scalable products for both design and data management and has made a commitment to develop scalable products that continue to deliver on that vision. Solid Edge is a key element in this integration strategy and has helped many customers scale there design and data management system to match their needs.This level of interoperability allows companies to maximize product delivery potential while protecting their investment in intellectual capital.

NX and Solid Edge interoperability

Siemens’ associative embedding technology is already production proven with many customers using combinations of NX® software and Solid Edge. Each product contains exclusive technology to allow part, assembly and attribute information to be passed between them. Solid Edge parts can be used in NXassemblies,with designers having the ability to update any of the parts from the assembly level in NX. Attributes such as hole information,which have been defined in Solid Edge, can be transferred to NX for use in machining,while NX parts can be opened in Solid Edge for downstream operations such as fixture design.Associative embedding ensures that updates to the original files will be recognized and acted upon in either system, keeping collaborative projects in sync at all times.

Migration from other products

Solid Edge allows you to preserve your investment in data from other 3D systems, such as Pro/Engineer and Mechanical Desktop,with tools that let users update to Solid Edge at a practical pace.Migration wizards take a simple step-by-step approach in moving parts, assemblies and drawings information to Solid Edge, automatically checking files into the PDM system where relevant.This powerful and trustworthy approach can save a significant amount of time and money when compared to alternative approaches for translating 2D and 3D data.

Built upon ease of use

Solid Edge Stream technology defined a new,more productive interface for interacting with a CAD system. Stream/XP takes user interaction to a new level,making Solid Edge the easiest to adopt of all mechanical CAD products.More than just a “look and feel,� the Stream/XP interface removes the need for unnecessary decisions. A unique SmartStep design coach guides users through commands allowing the user to focus on design and not the system.

Practical evolution from 2D to 3D

Solid Edge removes the traditional roadblocks when moving from 2D to 3D.Using Solid Edge’s simple four-step process, users can quickly evolve from 2D taking immediate advantage of 3D design at a comfortable pace.Here’s how:

Step 1 – Get the job done today,while moving to 3D at your own pace

Step 2 – Quickly turn simple 2D geometry into intelligent, real 3D parts

Step 3 – Apply the power of the new Solid Edge hybrid 2D/3D design workflow

Step 4 – Move to full 3D design when ready

Each step includes a proven set of tools and workflows to help users evolve from 2D to 3D while maintaining all data.

Maximize your investment with Solid Edge maintenance

Siemens understands companies’ goals are to design great products – not necessarily to become an expert in the design software – so Siemens makes it easy for companies’ to stay in touch and stay up to date. Solid Edge maintenance helps customers protect and maximize their return on investment, not just in the software, but in their people.An industry leading four-point security program provides you access to qualified technicians, software updates and technical publications, live and online.The Solid Edge maintenance program helps you achieve high levels of productivity with a minimum of inconvenience.Your engineers are always up to date with the latest Solid Edge enhancements, taking advantage of the best tools available to keep your company competitive.

With its groundbreaking Insight technology, Solid Edge became the only mainstream mechanical system to merge design management capabilities with the CAD system. Setting a new standard in CAD/PDM integration, Solid Edge customers choose from a range of scalable cPDM solutions from Insight to Teamcenter® Express software and to Teamcenter Engineering software. Each system is completely built into Solid Edge and offers a unique range of power and capability while offering full scalability, so cPDM solutions can grow as the customer’s business grows.

Solid Edge Insight, delivered with every seat of Solid Edge, is an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates the CAD system, design management and web-based collaboration into a transparent tool that is easy to implement and easy to manage. Insight is simple to implement, while providing the fundamental capabilities for well-defined workgroups to successfully manage Solid Edge data.

Teamcenter Express is a preconfigured, easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use product data management solution built on the powerful Teamcenter platform.Teamcenter Express is designed for mid-sized manufacturing companies that need to manage data and collaborate across multiple departments, across multiple sites and with multiple design systems.Teamcenter Express includes workflow capabilities to manage product releases and engineering change orders.Teamcenter Express helps companies to transform the process of innovation by applying preconfigured best practices to everyday engineering tasks and processes.

Teamcenter Engineering is targeted at companies requiring a complete PLM solution, and Solid Edge provides a seamless CAD-centric integration with this industry standard for cPDM. Teamcenter Engineering provides flexible and configurable management solutions addressing the full PLM process in a global environment. Unlike traditional PDM solutions, the Solid Edge integration with the Teamcenter platform makes sophisticated data management functions completely transparent to the designer. Both Solid Edge and Teamcenter are developed by Siemens, ensuring a level of integration that is updated and synchronized with every release.

Production drafting

Solid Edge is the industry’s best for creating 2D drawings. Whether drawings are generated automatically from 3D models, or from scratch, Solid Edge includes unmatched tools and processes for layouts, detailing, diagramming, annotating and dimensioning.Also included is Goal Seeking that helps engineers solve complex problems and what-if scenarios. Results can be used to drive 3D geometry in a true hybrid 2D/3D design environment.

Streamlined automatic drawing creation

Solid Edge automatically creates drawings from 3D models including standard, auxiliary, section, detail, broken and isometric views – even shaded. Solid Edge’s comprehensive dimensioning and annotating tools help document fully detailed drawings remarkably fast.As changes are made to 3D models, drawings update automatically and a Dimension Tracking tool captures any changed annotations.

A complete 2D drafting system

Unlike other 3D-only products, Solid Edge supports 2D drawing creation from scratch as well as editing existing 2D data.Open 2D files such as AutoCAD and continue to work even in a familiar “paper space� workflow, or migrate the data into 3D.

Documenting massive assemblies

Solid Edge dramatically accelerates the production of massive assembly drawings with exploded views, balloons and parts lists. Drawing views of only relevant components can be easily generated using assembly configurations or queries. Drawing Review Mode allows rapid opening of drawings and is ideal for reviewing, detailing or printing.

Drawing automation with Quicksheet templates

Many manufacturing companies have standards for creating drawings that specify drawing views, scale, parts list information and dimensioning styles.Quicksheet templates in Solid Edge eliminate repetitive tasks by initiating drawings from templates defining view layouts and all annotation standards. Documenting complete drawings can be done by a simple drag and drop.

Diagramming

Solid Edge includes dedicated tools as well as a library of industry standard symbols to simplify the creation of 2D diagrams such as electrical schematics and P&ID layouts. Each symbol can contain property information to be included in a parts list.

Process applications

Solid Edge boosts design productivity with environments specific to particular design tasks.These process-specific applications take the complexity out of modeling and assist complete digital prototype design more efficiently than general purpose CAD tools.

Frame design: Solid Edge speeds design of rigid frame structures beginning with a 3D sketch defining the frame skeleton. Solid Edge automatically creates frame components using standard cross-sections and generates cut lists for manufacturing.

Weldments: A dedicated environment assists the development of welded structures.All weld types are supported and tools are included for defining pre- and post-weld operations. Solid Edge captures the entire process, and provides bills of materials and component drawings.

Piping and tubing:Piping and tubing assemblies are created in the XpresRoute environment.Using a 3D path, pipes with correct fittings, or tubes, are automatically created. Pipes and tubes adapt to design changes and cut lists, bills of materials and manufacturing information are automatically produced.

Wire harness design: Wire harnesses in Solid Edge can be created manually or automatically from electrical CAD systems. Solid Edge includes a complete suite of tools for wire creation, routing, bundling and constantly monitors the design for manufacturability.Cut length and reports are also provided.

Standard parts:Solid Edge Standard Parts allows designers to add, select and place fasteners, bearings, pipe fittings and structural steel members.Users can place standard parts from optional libraries or use their own custom components.

Animated and dynamic documentation:Explode and motion simulations help communicate design ideas, show operations and improve documentation.A timeline-based approach lets users document explode sequences, create realistic motions and animate fly-throughs.When combined withVirtual Studio+, photorealistic movies can showcase products in action.

Mold design:Solid Edge MoldTooling is a powerful automated system for plastic injection mold design.This complete system includes component libraries, support for multi-core/cavity and cooling lines.A complementary Electrode Design application guides mold manufacturers through a step-by-step workflow to develop single or compound electrodes.

Digital prototypes

Solid Edge helps battle design complexity by creating functional 3D virtual prototypes that helps optimize designs before production. Solid Edge is assembly-centric using both top-down and bottom-up modeling techniques with the core tools to ensure original design intent is captured, stored and maintained throughout the complete design process.

Unsurpassed productivity for massive assemblies

Solid Edge easily tackles massive assembly design with powerful tools helping customers create assemblies topping 100,000 parts. Lightweight, simplification, zones and component grouping make working with massive assemblies easy and efficient.

With Solid Edge’s unique systems design capabilities, users can define and store sets of parts, features and constraints for re-use as a fully functional system. Each system captures critical relationships and motion parameters ensuring the correct position and operation during placement.

Digital simulation realizes reduced product development costs while improving quality.Created specifically for design engineers, Siemens’ Femap® Express finite element analysis (FEA) software provides an easy-to-use process for performing a fast, accurate, first pass static or modal analysis on a part or sheet metal model. For more detailed and advanced analysis, Solid Edge integrates directly with Femap.

Massive assembly design features in Solid Edge extend beyond single machines and into factory floor layouts. Solid Edge can handle complete production lines and the interconnectivity such as piping,wiring and tubing. Solid Edge is the only tool for part modeling through complete production line development.

Many design processes start an initial product structure and a 2D layout of key components. Solid Edge’s exclusive Zero D lets designers define key elements of a product structure with Virtual Components.At any point in the design process, user can turn theVirtual Components into 3D geometry.When coupled with Zero D, powerful 2D/3D hybrid design capabilities help engineers quickly outline designs virtually, add details in 2D, then develop complete 3D digital prototypes.