HANNOVER, Germany — Siemens PLM Software today announced what it claimed is a breakthrough in computer-aided design, unveiling a technology that it said will provide a dramatically faster “design experience” for users.
Described as history-free and using feature-based modeling techniques, the new Synchronous Technology is said to enable design engineers to capture and change ideas as fast as they can think of them. The new technology looks at a product model’s current geometric conditions in real time and combines them with parametric and geometric constraints “to evaluate and perform new geometry construction and edit of the model without the need for full history replay,” according to a company statement.
Siemens PLM said that the new Synchronous Technology, which it claimed offers users up to a “100 times faster design experience,” will be implemented in the next versions of both its Solid Edge and NX products. These new versions are scheduled for launch next month, with shipment to customers this summer.
At a press conference here at the Hannover Fair, Siemens PLM officials positioned Synchronous Technology as a milestone in the history of computer-based software design on par with history-based parametric modeling in the 1990s, solid-based modeling in the 1980s, and geometric modeling in the 1970s.