Solid Edge ST7

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Solid Edge ST7:Re-imagine What’s Possible

Greenpower electric vehicle courtesy of the Huntsville Center of Technology


Accelerate your 3D modelingTake your designs to the next level with faster, more flexible 3D modeling and beautiful photo-realistic rendering.


Streamline your design managementComplete your projects faster with design management that’s visual and straightforward.


Power up with new appsGet more productive with powerful new apps for design, manufacturing and collaboration.


Enjoy an amazing user experienceUnleash your creative potential with easier access and our most intuitive user interface yet.



Solid Edge ST7Re-imagine What’s Possible

Accelerate your 3D modeling


3D Sketch

• Available in the Part, Assembly and Sheet Metal environments

• Can be used in many modeling scenarios:• Define paths for sweep operations • Create models for pipes/wires that are bent in

more than one plane• Define paths for piping, wiring and tube routing

Solid Edge ST7Fast and flexible 3D modeling

• Faster design of components that are swept along a 3D path, and wires bent in multiple planes

• An additional method for routing pipes and wires in assemblies


Customer example: Wire component quickly designed using 3D Sketch

Solid Edge ST73D Sketch


Fixed length curve

• A curve that stays at a specified length when the location of either end, or the curve path is changed

• The curve is automatically adjusted to maintain the specified length


• Faster and easier to incorporate hoses and cables of fixed lengths into your assemblies

• Visualize the path followed by hoses and cables


Create blank from a 3D model

• Creates a flattened blank from any 3D model

• Formability of different materials is assessed and blank size calculated

• Included with Solid Edge Classic and Premium


• Rapid creation of manufacturing information for components that are manufactured using forming and stamping processes


Create blank from a 3D model – process flow



Create Sheet Metal parts from existing 3D models • Design a solid body to represent

the part shape

• Use the body faces to define bends and rips

• Works on any type of 3D part model, uniform thickness or not

• The input body can be consumed or retained

Solid Edge ST7Part to Sheet Metal

• Up to 5X faster than designing directly as a sheet metal part for some components


Solid Edge ST7Synchronous Technology

Chamfer Recognition• Recognizes chamfers on both imported

and native models

• Faces can be selected before running the command

• Faces can be deselected from chamfer recognition

• Setback and feature name can be edited

• Faster and more flexible design task completion using synchronous technology

• Easier to query and edit chamfers where many chamfers exist



Pattern of Patterns Recognition• Recognizes pattern of pattern type features

on both imported and native models• New option added to the Hole Pattern

Recognition dialog• Options to rename the pattern, define the

master, define as rectangular or circular• Can then be edited like any other pattern


• Easier editing of pattern of pattern type features

• Very useful for imported models


More capabilities for relating faces in a 3D model• The offset relationship has been improved to support

creating an offset relationship between faces whose “face normals” point in the same direction.

• Multiple faces can be offset from the same parent face



• More efficient modeling for parts with many related faces


Solid Edge ST7Faster completion of modeling tasks

New quick shapes streamline modeling• Create standard shapes quickly for

material addition or removal

• Go straight from creating a profile to defining extent – mouse clicks dramatically reduced

• Great for both new users and power users

• Up to 6X fewer clicks means faster design!

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Create beautiful photo-realistic images of Solid Edge models with the new tightly integrated rendering capability• Uses KeyShot – best-in-class

rendering technology

• Runs from Part, Sheet Metal and Assembly environments

• Included with Solid Edge Classic and Premium

Solid Edge ST7Beautiful photo-realistic rendering

• World class rendering now built-in nothing extra to buy!

• Boost your marketing capabilities with rapid creation of beautiful product images


KeyShot - the fastest, easiest way to create amazing product images• Real-time ray tracing - see changes to

materials and lighting instantly • Easy to use, requires no specialized

rendering expertise• 6 main buttons rather than hundreds of

parameters, options and sliders found in traditional rendering programs

Basic Rendering

Solid Edge ST7 rendering using KeyShot


“The integrated rendering provided by KeyShot will provide a tremendous advantage for our product development process. Because it’s so easy to use, we don’t have to be experts in graphic design to produce photo-realistic product images of the highest quality - in real-time”

Ricardo Espinosa, Kimball International


KeyShot Render & Update

• Single button click invokes KeyShot • Styles and views transferred• “Live Link” established• Seamless updates when model is

changed

KeyShot Animate• Use Solid Edge animation editor

• Specify motors, assembly explosions, movement paths, cameras, appear and vanish

• KeyShot renders the final photo-realistic video


“Professional designers need rendering tools that aren’t all dialogs, knobs, slides and toggles. We need to get the data in, add the materials and have the system do the donkey work. For that, KeyShot wins every time.” Al Dean, Develop 3D

Live Link


Heads-up Graphical 3D Measure• Significant enhancements to 3D measurement capabilities that address

specific customer requests• Easy-to-read display of X, Y, and Z, as well as overall dimensions• Multiple measurements can be made in a single command


• Easier access to comprehensive 3D measurement data

• User control over amount of measurement information presented


Extensive, standards-based hole placement• Comprehensive and consistent across the Part,

Assembly and Sheet Metal environments

• Support for international standards including DIN, ISO and ANSI etc.


• Intuitive, visual interface for controlling hole definition

• Wide support for international standards

“The revamped hole command functionality automatically derives a hole type based on a standard bolt size, allowing us to focus more on design and less on determining proper clearances”

Jason Inglis, DitchWitch


Standards-based material definitions• Grouping, categorization and sorting; also supports multiple libraries

• Enhanced preview and ability to add user defined properties

• Ability to import material information form sources like MatWeb


• Intuitive, visual interface for material selection

• Different departments can have their own materials libraries


Duplicating components

• Create multiple copies of a component based on designated “from” and “to” positions and orientations of existing components

• Example: use the chain components (black) to place multiple track components (grey) around the chain

Solid Edge ST7Faster and more flexible assembly design process

• Speeds assembly design where components are duplicated in many positions and orientations

• 10X faster assembly design in this example


Patterning components along a curve

• Create a pattern of components along a 3D curve or sketch

• Both position and orientation are controlled by the curve

• Example: use the helical curve to define the location and orientation of multiple components


• Speeds assembly design where multiple components are positioned based on existing curve geometry


• Easily manage change • Component tracker in Assembly shows all

changes “beneath you”• Update All brings it all up-to-date in correct

order!

• Significantly faster File Open and Save on large assemblies using new “Limited Update” capability


• Easy to detect changes and bring assembly up to date

• 4X performance improvement when opening and saving large assemblies


• Large performance gains as option for Simplified Assemblies avoids full “BOM Expansion” • All parts no longer automatically downloaded to local workspace• Both unmanaged and SEEC environments take advantage of this

• “Reference Only” assemblies optimize performance while maintaining correct BOM report generation


“The ability to reference components residing in different levels of our large product assembly without actually having access to those components is a huge productivity enhancement for us”

Georg Roth, Singulus Technologies


• Design-in-context (top-down design)• Inter-part links can be created without

write access to upper-level assembly• Snap to geometry from upper-level

assemblies when below them• Example: Routing in a subassembly can

reference parts above it in the structure• Improved user interface for selection of

parts and for defining constraints


Turbo pump designed in Solid Edge

courtesy of Pomit Co. Ltd. (Korea)

• Faster and more flexible assembly design with improved ability to reference existing design information

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Fully automatic coordinate dimensions

• Just fence select or select a view.

• Entire string is automatically placed, including jogging for readability

• Auto-jog works for manual placement too

Reference Text

• Associative reference from one annotation to another

• Automatically update all GD&T when a datum label changes for example

Solid Edge ST7Improved productivity for 2D drawing creation

• Placement of coordinate dimensions enhanced to improve productivity and clarity

• Associative annotations enhances drafting productivity and accuracy


Improved 2D drawing view placement and handling

• Dynamic display of the drawing views expanded to include all view types (multiple, principal, auxiliary, section & detail views)

• New capability for a user to pull a part or sub-assembly out of a higher level assembly and place drawing views of these components

• BOMs still handled correctly

Solid Edge ST7Improved productivity for 2D drawing creation

• Easier layout of multiple drawing views• Improved support for detailing components

of assemblies on the assembly drawing



Solid Edge ST7Re-imagine what’s possible

Streamline your design management


Solid Edge ST7Streamlined Design Management

Multiple preview/properties cards • Users can display multiple preview/properties cards in the Relation Browser interface• Compare both the graphical thumbnail and the properties of different parts• When a card is “pinned”, subsequent “Open Preview” requests opens a new card

• Graphical thumbnails facilitate understanding of complex data reducing errors

• Different parts, and different revisions of parts can be quickly compared



Ad-hoc reviewer assignments for workflows

• Allows users at the time of starting a workflow to select individual team members for review and approval tasks

• More flexibility in creating workflows and assigning tasks to specific users



Consolidated workflow management• A single location for all user interactions around workflows, tasks and logs • Workflow carts provide visual navigation of the workflow contents• New and simplified handlers make workflow creation/customization easier.

• Faster and more intuitive execution of workflows and associated tasks



Improved handling of List-of-Values (LOVs) data

• LOVs are presented as “drop down” boxes

• Multiple selection of LOV options is available when adding data

• Multiple selection of LOV options is enabled when searching for data

• Enhanced capabilities to manage attribute data in “list-of-values” type formats


Teamcenter Integration (Solid Edge Embedded Client)

• Integration with Teamcenter and Teamcenter Rapid Start 9.1 and 10.1

• Updated to support Solid Edge ST7

• Support for the new simplified assembly and reference assembly capabilities

• Structure Editor performance improvements

• Open, Save as all, perform actions

• Enhancements to the Add to Teamcenter – Interactive utility

Solid Edge ST7Streamlined Design Management with Teamcenter

• Teamcenter users can take advantage of the new assembly management features and performance improvements in Solid Edge ST7




Power up with new apps


Get more productive with powerful new apps for design, manufacturing and collaboration

Expanded portfolio of in-house and 3rd party apps that extend capabilities in many areas including;

• Standard and catalog parts

• Electro-mechanical design

• Simulation

• 3D Printing

• Manufacturing

• Cloud based collaboration

• Microsoft Surface support

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps

• Extend the capabilities of Solid Edge beyond the core design capabilities

• Provide integrated solutions for design through to manufacturing


CADENAS

Find 3D CAD models quickly and simply with mobile catalog access

• Extends the existing Solid Edge / CADENAS PARTsolutions integration to include mobile devices

• A new App for Android and iOS devices• Access to CADENAS’ extensive PARTcommunity

download portal • Browse structured product catalogs from more

than 400 manufacturers while on the go• Flexible search methods by attributes and

geometry

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps: Standard & Catalog Parts

• Fast searches for standard and catalog parts that can be used immediately in Solid Edge assemblies

• Extends access to mobile users


Zuken

Integrate your electrical wire harness and PCB designs with your mechanical assemblies

• Integration of Zuken’s E3.schematic with Solid Edge• An easy-to-use solution for designing and

documenting electrical control systems including schematic diagrams, terminal plans and PLC’s

• Integration with Solid Edge is through E3.3D routing bridge • Transfer of electrical harness details including connectors,

terminals, splices and netlist information to Solid Edge• Cables can be routed in 3D using Solid Edge XpresRoute• Length and structure data for the harness is fed back into

E3.series

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps: Electro-mechanical design

• Faster and more accurate design of electro-mechanical assemblies


Solid Edge Simulation

• Option to use multiple processors/cores• User can specify number of processors

• Ability to specify and store global preferences• Supports both pre-processing (meshing)

preferences and post-processing display options• Preferences applied across multiple analyses

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – Simulation

• Get analysis results faster by optimizing processor use

• Easier to apply preferences consistently across different analyses


Print a 3D Solid Edge model using Microsoft 3d Builder

• Single click invokes 3D Builder and sends current model • Intuitive 3D Builder interface supports scaling, replication

and rotation • Devices like the MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D

Printer print the components

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – 3D Printing


CAMWorks for Solid Edge

• New multi-axis milling, wire EDM, and mill-turn capabilities

• Support for Solid Edge assemblies• allows the NC Programmer to see the

entire setup (including fixtures) while creating tool paths

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – Manufacturing

• CAM solution embedded in Solid Edge is extended to include more advanced machining scenarios


GrabCAD• Users can publish Solid Edge part and

assembly models directly to the GrabCAD public library • 1000s of Solid Edge models now

published and available for download!

• Users can also publish Solid Edge part and assembly models to secure GrabCAD Workbench projects and collaborate with team members, suppliers and customers

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – Cloud Based Collaboration

• Fast access to 1000s of Solid Edge models• Share your Solid Edge models in a controlled way


GrabCAD Workbench – Viewing a Solid Edge assembly

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – Cloud Based Collaboration


Microsoft Surface Pro

Full support for Solid Edge design tasks is further enhanced with improved finger gesture support for display manipulation

• Examples:• In 2D, single finger drag = pan

• In 3D, single finger drag = rotate

• In 2D and 3D, two finger pinch/spread = zoom in/out

Solid Edge ST7Powerful Apps – Microsoft Surface Pro

• Run full Solid Edge modeling and drafting sessions on Microsoft Surface Pro devices




Enjoy an amazing user experience


Expanded access to monthly subscriptions

• An easy way to access Solid Edge for all manufacturing organizations from start-ups to established manufacturing companies

• Monthly subscriptions purchased online in USA, UK, Japan and Ireland since 2013

• Availability expanded to many European countries including Germany, France, Italy, Spain…

Solid Edge ST7Easier access

• For start-ups: avoids large initial capital expense • For established manufacturers: enables peaks in

demand for design resources to be met more easily


Solid Edge High School Edition• For high school and secondary school teachers• New project materials available

Solid Edge University Edition• A true University-level program• Small charge for a site-license• New curricula available

Solid Edge Student Edition• For students whose institutions do not offer Solid Edge• Great for ANY student – even younger or older learners

Solid Edge ST7Expanding Academic Program


Rapidly expanding user community• 4th Solid Edge University event in 2014

• Now expanding globally with SEU events in many countries

• Solid Edge user community website launched 2013• 1,000s of discussion and Q&A posts

• Knowledge base with 200+ tips

• up to 10,000 interactions per week

Solid Edge ST7Easier access

• Easier access for users to events and local user groups

• Thriving user community facilitates sharing and learning


Startup page with easy access to common tasks

New startup page with easier access to templates, recent documents, instructional videos, learning paths, online community and standard parts

Solid Edge ST7Intuitive user interface


Highly visual, in-window drawing tools• Quickly access to any view, with the in-window

Quick View Cube• Visually appealing and intuitive sketch drawing tools

• Heads-up display of values• Clean handles and indicators for snap

• Improved units management and synchronization with dimensioning

• Expanded File Open dialog


“The visual learning enhancements within ST7 will give our company a tremendous advantage in employee orientation, providing new designers and engineers with an intuitive, accelerated path to Solid Edge proficiency - which directly improves our bottom line.”

Domestic products manufacturer



Graphical information in tooltips speeds learning curve• Enhanced tooltips with more text, graphics and videos

• User has control over whether simple text, graphics or video is presented

• Enhanced help for common commands like Select and Escape


Solid Edge ST7 delivers fast and flexible 3D modeling, streamlined design management, powerful new apps and an amazing user experience that empower you to re-imagine what’s possible



Solid Edge ST7:Re-imagine What’s Possible


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