"Thinking" engine transforms CAD rules
A breakthrough surfaces in 3D model modification and integration with automation control systemsSiemens PLM has enhanced its 3D CAD offering to simplify modelmodification, while continuing with its programme of integrating CADand PLM with Siemens automation control products.
The company's latest breakthrough in CAD modelling is called "synchronous technology" and was announced at the recent Hanover Fair.The key difference from previous solutions is that there is now aninference engine that looks at the geometry and the rules within theCAD model.
If a user wants to modify an element of a design, previously thismeant going back to the history in the feature tree - something of aproblem, if the model is imported from another CAD system and thefeature tree fails to be read in. What has been announced now is theability to pick on an item of geometry, and then pull and push it toshape, while the engine infers what the user is trying to do.
Source: eurekamagazine.co.ukAdded: 10 June 2008
