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Material prices fluctuate, energy costs remain high, and customers expect shorter delivery times with smaller batch sizes. Added to this are increasing variety, short-notice changes in requirements, and the challenge of efficiently deploying qualified skilled workers. For companies in the sheet metal industry, the question is therefore not just how to produce faster. What is crucial is:
A key lever for this already lies in engineering. This is because the quality and availability of the design data form the basis for optimally utilizing modern laser systems, press brakes, and welding robots.
The economic viability of a sheet metal part is already influenced during the development phase. During the design process, factors such as geometry, material usage, bending radii, bend allowances, manufacturability, and unfolding are determined, among others.
Efficient change management is therefore an important factor for short lead times and stable production processes.
The faster and more reliably changes can be implemented, the lower the coordination effort and rework.
This is exactly where Designcenter X with Solid Edge from Siemens The solution combines powerful 3D design with cloud-based data management, creating a seamless working environment for development and manufacturing.
As an experienced system partner, we support companies in analyzing existing CAD processes, taking over design data, and optimally integrating Designcenter X Solid Edge into their existing system and manufacturing landscape.
Solid Edge offers a fully integrated environment for sheet metal part development. The entire process can be mapped within one system:
The sheet metal environment supports, among other things, base, contour, and polyline flanges, joggled flanges, hems, stiffeners, cutouts, embossments, as well as drawn and formed cutouts.
Manufacturing-relevant properties are taken into account during the design phase. Based on defined material and bending parameters, the appropriate flat pattern is automatically generated.
Solid Edge supports common calculation methods for this, such as:
Material, sheet thickness, inner radius, tooling, and other parameters can be individually taken into account. The generated flat patterns can then be exported as DXF or DWG files for laser, punch, and CNC machines.
Many companies have extensive design data from various CAD systems. Therefore, when modernizing the CAD landscape, the focus is on the secure transfer and further development of existing models.
Designcenter X Solid Edge enables the direct further processing of imported models from CAD systems such as CADdy, AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, or Autodesk Inventor.
This allows existing designs to be transferred to the new work environment step-by-step and existing design knowledge to continue to be used.
This offers a key advantage, especially for suppliers and contract manufacturers who regularly receive data from various customer systems: existing CAD data remains usable and can be efficiently further developed.
Short-term customer changes are part of everyday life in sheet metal fabrication. A housing becomes wider, a flange needs to be moved, or a hole pattern needs to be adjusted.
With Synchronous Technology, geometries can be edited directly without completely rebuilding the model. For example, users can:
This allows for faster implementation of changes and reduced development times.
The earlier constructive requirements and manufacturing conditions are considered, the more reliably processes can be planned and implemented.
Solid Edge therefore supports, among other things, during the design process:
Additionally, Solid Edge Inspector can be used to automatically create inspection characteristics and make them available for downstream quality assurance processes.
Designcenter X complements construction with cloud-based data management and collaboration.
Shared versions, current drawings, revision statuses, comments, and 3D markups are available centrally. This allows design, production planning, manufacturing, customers, and suppliers to work from a traceable data basis.
This creates transparent processes, reduces coordination effort, and supports fast approval processes.
As a SaaS solution, Designcenter X also offers cloud-based licenses and automatic updates. This reduces the effort required for local installations and manual updates.
Do you want to further develop your existing CAD environment or take the next step towards Solid Edge?
In one personal conversation Let's analyze your current CAD environment together and show you how to solve typical sheet metal design tasks more efficiently with Designcenter X Solid Edge.
Additionally, we will show how models from CAD systems can be seamlessly imported and processed directly.
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