Solid Edge CAD

Need a single CAD solution that can be used by all the technical specialists within your organization?

Solid Edge is powerful 3D CAD software delivering a complete end-to-end design solution. Solid Edge offers advanced surfacing manipulation capabilities for aesthetic design by Industrial designers. The same model can then be used for functional engineering design, tooling design and manufacture. Traditional processes require remodelling of the product using a set of design curves exported from an industrial design package. Removing this step shortens the development time improving time to market and lowering costs.

Solid Edge includes clever functionality for handling assemblies of hundreds, and even thousands, of parts easily. This increases the speed of design for tool, equipment and plant designers. Changes to machinery, factory and plant layout can be evaluated quickly and easily.

Business Benefits

• Reduce time to market by combining form and function within a single CAD model.
• Enhance flexibility to optimise industrial design while maintaining design intent and manufacturability throughout the design process.
• Ease of collaboration between design groups, manufacturing and suppliers.
• Reduce engineering changes post-production by eliminating fit and function errors.
• Rapidly create and evaluate product variations.
• Handle large assemblies and factory layouts quickly and easily.

Who Could Benefit?

• Industrial designers
• Product designers
• Design engineers
• Tooling and equipment designers
• Production managers
• Factory Managers
• Process engineers

Product Detail

Solid Edge for Consumer Product Design
With a unique approach to aesthetic engineering, Solid Edge provides you with a complete end-to-end industrial design and engineering solution. For designers of more ‘stylistic’ shapes, Solid Edge’s revolutionary Rapid Blue technology overcomes the limitations of existing CAD systems and provides a new level of design control and flexibility, while remaining easy to use and sympathetic to the creative process. With Rapid Blue you get the shape you want, not just the one your old CAD system wants to give you.

A significant advantage of Solid Edge is that form and function are contained within a single model. The industrial design model can be directly used for creation of the functional mechanical features of the product. If an industrial designer modifies the outside shape of the part, the mechanical features automatically update to accommodate the change. Not only is remodelling and rework dramatically reduced but the same models can be easily modified to produce a range of product variations. Solid Edge speeds your time to market.

Solid Edge for Sheet-Metal Design
Solid Edge is the most advanced sheet metal design software in the industry. It allows you to create product enclosures using standard sheet metal and fabrication terminology. Streamlines modelling commands quickly create tabs, flanges, louvers, dimples, cut-outs, mitred corners, corner breaks and other sheet metal specific part features. Automated placement of bend relief, bend allowance calculations and flat pattern development means components are designed ready for manufacturing.

Solid Edge for Tooling, Equipment and Plant Design
Solid Edge provides the most capable solutions for machinery and tooling design, delivering all the tools needed to meet increasing pressure on delivery times. With industrial-strength 3D modelling, assembly design, design management, engineering aids, and 2D drafting, Solid Edge has everything you need to assist you with your design.

Solid Edge assists you to create tooling and fixture designs that are not just accurate, but also intelligent. The engineering knowledge captured in standard components and existing fixture assemblies can be quickly reused.  Virtual prototypes of tooling assemblies allow checking of assembly fit and reduce interference errors at the earliest stages of the design.

Solid Edge allows the creation and manipulation of very large assemblies. Particularly useful for plant and factory design this capability will allow you to quickly investigate multiple options for layout modification very easily. 

Solid Edge Insight
Effective design management is essential to achieving time-to-market, quality and cost objectives. Solid Edge Insight is an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates CAD, design management and web-based collaboration into a single tool that is easy to implement and manage.

• BOM Management with rapid search and ‘where used’ reporting.
• Secure data management with role-based access and check-in/check-out to prevent conflicting changes being made to the same part.
• Automated workflows to streamline the engineering change process.
• Full text search to locate text data displayed on drawing notes and tables.
• A variety of solutions for data access, viewing, interrogation and markup including web-based for remote collaboration.

Additional Modules

• Wire harness design - enable your electrical and mechanical design teams to collaborate more effectively.
• Mold Design - design tool incorporating plastic design knowledge
  
• XpresRoute - specialist tubing and piping design tool
• Standard Parts - parts management system for commonly used components.

With over 22 years working with NZ engineering companies Matrix is in the unique position of being able to offer both technical expertise and experience across a broad range of specialities. We provide both support and training to Solid Edge users as well as offering consulting services to back you up when resources are tight. Matrix technical experts have the knowledge and experience to assist you with your engineering issues.

Customer Success
There are many industries where Solid Edge has been used successfully around the world.  Please follow the Solid Edge case studies link on the right to view the UGS Customer Case Studies and Videos.

More Information
Contact Matrix to discuss the benefits of Solid Edge for your organisation, request a Solid Edge demonstration and/or quotation. 

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