Welcome to the July edition of the PLM Express Newsletter from SOLID Applications Limited.
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In This Edition

• Transys Projects Limited Choose Solid Edge for their 3D CAD Solution

• Register to download full copies of Siemens PLM Software Packages

• Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology Update Training

• Update on SOLID Applications Limited Software Support

• Top Tip from the Helpdesk

• Are you up to date?

Transys Projects Limited Choose
Solid Edge for their 3D CAD Solution.

This month Transys Projects Limited, a significant and growing player in international rail vehicle projects, purchased their first licenses of Solid Edge after evaluating packages such as Solid Works and ProEngineer. The decision to purchase Solid Edge was agreed by the technical team, including Tim Barlow, CAD Manager for Transys Projects Limited. Tim said, "We decided to go for Solid Edge for several reasons. Firstly, Siemens PLM Software were offering Solid Edge 2D as a free incentive and with a high amount of our work still in 2D, there are key advantages in running both Solid Edge 2D and 3D together in the same environment. With the interface between the two packages being ostensibly the same, it allows a natural progression for our 2D CAD engineers to move to Solid Edge 3D. Solid Edge also appears to have some dominance in the rail industry, which is advantageous for us, when sharing and collaborating with clients."

"We believe that Solid Edge gives us an advantage with the ability to handle CAD data from other platforms such as Microstation. This was proven to us with a demonstration of Solid Edge V20 by SOLID Applications Ltd, with excellent results. Finally, the ability to move from 2D drawings to 3D models using easy to use wizards really sold it to us. As we have so much Microstation 2D legacy data, the ability to pick up this data and convert it to 3D Assembly models was highly important. Solid Edge proved to do this easily and quickly, which in turn would give us an advantage of automatically creating BOM lists from the 3D part data". Tim added, "We do have some 3D CAD systems, such as Microstation and ProEngineer but in my opinion they are more challenging to use, and with the release of Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology just around the corner, we are happy knowing our investment in Solid Edge will deliver proven results for many years to come".

Tim Barlow picked up on many benefits that Solid Edge can deliver, and it was great to hear from him how his existing 3D CAD solutions could not provide what he was looking for, but Solid Edge can.

Transys Projects Limited placed an order last week following a demonstration on Solid Edge V20 by Michael Clark, Applications Engineer for SOLID Applications Ltd. Michael's thoughts on Transys Projects Limited' investment into Solid Edge were "It's a great result for their business. Now they will be able to design a whole range of products, allowing Transys to show their clients visual representations of their end products, not just relying on 2D drawings which can be harder to read as they require more interpretation".

Not only did Transys Projects Limited see a demonstration of Solid Edge V20, they also witnessed Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology, demonstrated by Craig Checkley, Technical Account Manager for SOLID Applications Ltd. Tim Barlow said "I was totally amazed by what I saw, and so was the rest of the group. The ability to draw sketches and produce all edits in a single 3D environment was impressive. I liked the fact that any edits are done directly on the model, and there is no need to go back to profile sketches to perform basic edits. The introduction of the steering wheel command into 3D CAD will allow us to design concepts rapidly and easily, adding driving dimensions after the concept design is complete is really powerful. Its great that you don't need to think how to model parts anymore, you just do it, edit it, then constrain it. Its the way a design engineer should work. More time for creation rather than planning and being restrained by history-based modelling methods. This technology will certainly allow us to design significantly faster than before".

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology
Update Training Course dates announced.

This training course will provide delegates with the essential knowledge of new functionality available in “Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology”.

The currently available dates for Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology Update Training are:-

Wednesday 27th - Thursday 28th August Fully Booked
Wednesday 3rd - Thursday 4th September - Spaces Limited
Wednesday 10th - Thursday 11th September - Spaces Limited
Wednesday 17th - Thursday 18th September - Spaces Limited
Wednesday 15th - Thursday 16th October - New Date Added

Please note, that due to huge demand the courses are selling out fast.
Course attendance can be secured with a purchase order.
To download the course booking form click here.

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology software is a groundbreaking release – delivering a new modelling paradigm that combines the speed and flexibility of explicit modelling with the control and predictability of parameterized design. Whether you are a casual or expert user, Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology allows you to innovate faster than your competition.

To compliment this release, SOLID Applications Limited, is please to announce the availability of Update training dates. The Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology Update Training is priced at £400 per person, and run over 2 days (the price includes lunch and refreshments).

Highlights of this training course include:

A new design environment

• Integrated 2D and 3D sketching
• Region-based design
• Face collection features
• Microsoft Office 2007 Style user interface

Synchronous Technology tools
Live Rules enable flexible editing by automatically maintaining relationships such as co-planar, tangent, concentric, horizontal or vertical within your 3D geometry, by intent or inference.

Procedural features allow you to change parameters for Hole patterns, Thinwall and Rounds, thereby maintaining feature-based design, without feature-to-feature dependencies.

Driving 3D dimensions added directly on your models with inferred and/or explicit 3D bi-directional dimensions independent from creation order to give directional edit control with exact results.

Table- and formula-driven design capabilities maintain highly automated, parametric design functions of Solid Edge.

Steering wheel and 3D handles that provide ‘grab and go’ editing capabilities.

Update on SOLID Applications Limited Software Support

SOLID Applications Limited would like to share with our customers the success of our helpdesk, by illustrating our response times for customer support queries.

During June 2008 we received a total of 135 support calls. We are delighted to report that 97% of calls were responded to within 15 minutes and a total of 99% were responded to in under 30 minutes. Out of 135 calls, 59% were solved the same day and 76% solved in less than 2 days.

Over the last 12 months, we have received a total of 1783 support calls. Of which 96% were responded to in under 15 minutes, and a total of 99.4% were responded to in under 30 minutes. Out of 1783 calls, 60% were solved on the same day and 73% solved in less than 2 days.

Copyright 2008 SOLID Applications Ltd. All rights reserved

The statements in this newsletter that are not historical statements, including statements regarding expected benefits of the product, adoption by customers, continued innovation and other statements identified by forward looking terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "plan," "anticipate" or "project," are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements, including, among others, risks relating to developments in the PLM industry, competition, failure to innovate and intellectual property. SAL disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.