Posts Tagged ‘ST4’
F1 in Schools Championship features Solid Edge designed cars
Friday, September 16th, 2011
23 teams, 17 nations, over 200 students… all competing to be crowned 2011 F1 in Schools™ World Champions…. the race is on. The 2011 F1 in Schools™ World Finals begins Monday and students will travel from all 4 corners of the globe to be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for this prestigious annual event.
That’s the headline in F1 in Schools recent press release about the 2011 championship. As a long time support of this organization, Siemens is excited about this event as we watch future engineers test what they’ve learned using CAD/CAM and CFD technology. Here’s a sneak peek at two of the 23 teams. These two teams used Solid Edge to design their cars. Thanks to Siemens own Armin Gittinger who is an active supporter and coach for the teams in Germany!
BETAGREEN – Germany
100% of the car was designed in Solid Edge ST3
NX Flow was used for CFD
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Solid Edge Student Edition
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Students at Polytechnical College of San Sebastian (Spain) designed and fabricated a prototype of a 125cc racing motorcycle using Solid Edge
Everywhere you look in the last couple weeks, you see back to school “stuff”. Commercials, news stories, the Sunday circulars, etc. It’s that time of year where your children (or you) are educated; grow to learn new skills. We’ve decided to make it easier for engineering students to learn how to use CAD by announcing the Solid Edge Student Edition – for free – to students of all ages. Yep, I said FREE!
This announcement is part of a strategic and ongoing investment in education as part of our GOPLM program. Siemens PLM is developing a comprehensive academic intiative to meet the needs of industry, initially focusing on Solid Edge but expanding to include other products in our protfolio. By providing the Solid Edge Student Edition free of charge, we aim to increase the number and quality of engineering graduates entering the workforce.
Here’s the down and dirty info:
- Register – please use a legit email so we can send you the license file
- Check your email for the 12 month license file (just a warning, there could be up to 5 minute wait for this email)
- Download Solid Edge (Our tests are showing this takes about 20 minutes)
- Design better!
PS – The student license is incompatible with the commerical version of Solid Edge.
We’re still in the middle of rolling out Solid Edge ST4 in all languages which means the Solid Edge Student Edition is available today in English, French, Russian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. The remaining languages – German, Korean, Italian, Traditional Chinese and Japanese – be be available in the coming weeks.
We’re not just letting students download the software and leave them hanging. We provide links to tutorials and other on-line media, and grant access to a dedicated forum that will allow collaboration with other students around the world! We will periodically email technical productivity tips to help further increase proficiency.
If you or your child are interested in learning how to use Solid Edge, go download the Student Edition today!
Read the official Press Release
Engineer Versus Designer (the blog about the podcast)
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
I had a bit of fun with the Engineer Vs Designer podcast folks this week. If you have not checked them out, they are Josh Mings and Adam O’Hern, one a clever engineer and the other an overly creative industrial designer. They do a weekly pod cast that is becoming so popular we may have to come up with a single name for the duo (Mern? Jadam? MingO’? )
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Students + Solid Edge = Edgelings
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
At the Solid Edge ST4 Event (yes, I am still writing about it even though it happened two weeks ago!), Siemens PLM Software announced a (re)new(ed) focus on the Solid Edge academic program. Led by Mike Brown (@mjb258) an industry veteran, the academic program got off to a great start. Roopinder Tara from TenLinks caught up with Mike for an interview at the event as did I. Mike was kind enough to give me some of his thoughts.
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Edison2 keynotes the Solid Edge ST4 Event
Monday, June 20th, 2011
It’s several days post the Solid Edge ST4 event but this story is one that needs to be told. Leading up to the Solid Edge ST4 event, I did a post on the keynote speakers Edison2. It’s one thing to read about this unique car, it’s another to be in attendance to hear and see both Chief of Design Ron Mathis and Brad Jaeger speak so passionately about Solid Edge and the Very Light Car.
Before you watch this video interview with Ron and Brad by my colleague Branco Liu, I must make this statement. It was asked and speculated during the event that some other CAD system or systems were used for things such as surfacing, etc. I made it a point to seek out and ask Ron. He stated
The entire car, from design to surfacing, was done in Solid Edge!
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“Hugely Positive” about Synchronous Technology
Friday, June 17th, 2011
If you use Solid Edge, you probably know Rick Mason. If not, you need to. Rick, from MASCO Design Services has been using Solid Edge since V1 when it was announced in 1996. He is infamous among the Solid Edge user community and the only user that traveled from Australia.
Rick provides us with his insights on the product as it’s changed over the last 15 years. I love his idea of having an old NT4 machine set up at the next user event with version 3.5 running the initial release of Sheetmetal. Brillant! (Note to self, talk to John Fox about making this happen).
At the closing of the Solid Edge ST4 Event, Rick stood up and led the audience in a standing ovation. Rick, it’s us that should be thanking you for the years of dedication to Solid Edge.
Dan Staples’ favorite user story of the Solid Edge ST4 Event
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
During a coffee break today, I was chatting with Dan Staples and asked him out of all the users at the Solid Edge ST4 Event, what’s the best story he heard. He mentioned tractor and attachment manufacturer Ventrac. (Disclaimer – I am sure that Dan Staples loves all the user’s stories we’ve heard over the last couple days, this happened to be the one he told me 
)
I know these guys well after I met them last year at our Productivity Summit in Cleveland (my home town) so Dan caught my interest right away. That and I had been working with them on getting the tractor as one of the images in the Solid Edge ST4 splash screen.
Ventrac uses sheetmetal in their mowers and up till a couple months ago, everything they did was using the traditional approach and not taking advantage of synchronous technology. When Solid Edge ST3 came out with synchronous technology in our Sheetmetal environment, we gave Ventrac their Christmas present early.
I was able to catch up with Dan Swartz and ask him about their use of Solid Edge since implementing ST3 and what he’s seen in ST4 in the last couple days. The way he tells the story, giving them synchronous in sheetmetal was like flipping a switch for their productivity.
The second part of Ventrac’s story that Dan Staples liked was their use of PMI for design reviews. Dan Swartz told me that everyone from their service manager to their sales manager can see what’s in the product without creating a drawing. As Dan Staples puts it, they are using PMI in the way we intended when we put it in Solid Edge way back in V19.
Have a (Solid Edge) seat!
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Munder Skiles Outdoor Furniture
As people have been walking the halls of the Solid Edge ST4 Event, checking out the Product Showcase, they gravitate to two places. First, they are stopping at the WMF Coffee machine for their free cappuccino, espresso or latte (in Mark Burhop’s case, he spends all day there! Just kidding Mark) Then, they sit down enjoying their coffee in what appears to be just another table. After a glance on the card, they quickly realize their impromptu meeting place is another product designed using Solid Edge.
I caught up with Bob Mileti from Trlby Innovative, LLC and asked him about the Munder Skiles Outdoor Furniture and the event. The furniture is made by John Danzer, founder of Munder-Skiles, a firm specializing in the production of both historically-inspired and original designs of Garden Furniture and related products. (Side note: I don’t think I could afford a leg to one of these chairs!)
For those of you who don’t know Bob – is there anyone? – he’s a passionate Solid Edge user, frequent visitor to our message boards and known for having what we call “Mileti Moments”…small little rants about what we need to fix We’ve nick-named the table and chairs the “Mileti Cafe” just for him.
What’s interesting about Bob’s use of Solid Edge is he used Solid Edge Sheetmetal to create the bend in a chair made of teak wood. Listen to his story.
Manipulating & Reusing 3rd party CAD data within Solid Edge
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
I sat in on Dr. Andrew Thomas’ (@asteng88) presentation yesterday afternoon. We asked Andrew to present his story because, well, It Rocks! I don’t think I can tell his story in a blog post quite as eloquently as he did nor will it replace you seeing it for yourself. Adrew was kind enough to give me his presentation. Live at the event, Andrew showed a video of how quickly you can edit foreign data inside Solid Edge with synchronous technology. It took him and his team longer to import the data (9 minutes) than it did to edit the data (1 minute).
On the right is an image in his presentation. I think it’s a wonderful illustration of what his company is doing – manipulating and reusing 3rd party CAD data (specifically SolidWorks and Inventor) within Solid Edge.
One more note before you scroll through the Slideshare presentation…Andrew had a quote at the end of his presentation that addressed students. Given our announcement about the Solid Edge Academic Program and my recent interview with Ben Sampson, this was timely and appropriate:
New graduates that have trained on Solid Edge will be using Synchronous Technology. “In a moving world, readaption is the price of longevity”
Solid Edge ST4: Energist and synchronous technology
I caught up with Andrew after his presentation to get a few thoughts from him.
You may remember Andrew from the interviews Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights did last November on customers who presented at the Siemens PLM Analyst event:
The Voice of Engineering: Energist’s Transition to Synchronous Technology
From Student to Synchronous Advocate
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Meet Ben Sampson. (@BenCAx)
Ben attended Utah State University, worked at the Space Dynamic Labs (SDL) and is now working out of the Dallas area for our partner Saratech. And he loves synchronous technology. A graduate of professor John Devitry’s well known and popular mechanical engineering program, Ben is now showing the power of synchronous to customers. I caught up with him after one of the sessions today.
