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Solid Edge gives you world-class capabilities to design and build realistic 3D solid models representing the form of your parts. Solid Edge also allows you to create assemblies of the 3D solid parts in order to allow you to clearly understand whether the parts will properly together as an assembly. What Solid Edge will not do is provide you with the ability to know if your design will actually meet it's intended (and sometimes unintended) performance criteria? To determine if a design will perform as expected, the physical assembly is produced and a series of costly lab or field tests are done. This testing usually produces several design changes and the process continues until all production performance criteria are met. The problem with this is that design validation is done too late in the process.
Dynamic Designer allows you understand the true dynamic function of your design inside the Solid Edge environment before your produce or assembly physical hardware. Design Validation with Dynamic Designer allows you to build, test and refine the function of your CAD models and output the same performance information typically gathered physically (e.g. part interference, motor size, cam performance, gear and linkage layout, etc.). Using Dynamic Designer you will understand the mechanics of your design before you cut metal or mold plastic, all within the familiar Solid Edge environment. Design revisions are easier and less costly if motion problems are identified before you build and test a physical assembly. If you have questions about how a design works or performs, Dynamic Designer can help you.
3 Levels of Products
Motion Professional - Motion Professional is the complete virtual testing package for designers and engineer. Using animations and XY plots you will size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, determine how contacting parts behave, generate operating loads suitable for use by Finite Element Analysis, and much much more. Knowing this information will help you answer two fundamental engineering questions: "Will it work?" and "Will it break?". If you are a designer or engineer interested in understanding the performance aspects of your design before physical prototyping, you need Motion Professional.
Motion - Dynamic Designer Motion is a subset of Motion Professional. Motion is designed for designers and engineers who want to verify the performance aspects of mechanisms including those containing cams, gears, latches, belts, and/or chains. You will verify mechanism motion through animations, interference detection, and XY plots of basic engineering data. If you are interested in modeling a wide range of forces (e.g. friction, dampers, etc.) or plotting force-related engineering data (e.g. reaction loads, power consumption, etc.), you should consider Motion Professional.
Simply Motion - Simply Motion is a subset of both Motion and Motion Professional. It adds motion to your Solid Edge assembly, generates animations, and checks for interference as your parts move. The designs can contain components like linkages, motors, actuators, and springs. Simply Motion should be used by designers who only need to visually verify the motion of their moving assembly, who need to check for interference as the parts move, and who are not concerned with the forces (e.g. friction, dampers, etc.) that act on their design. Using Simply Motion is typically as simple as adding an actuator (e.g. motor) to the existing assembly model. If you need to model more complicated mechanical components (cams, gears, latches, chains, belts, etc.) and/or use the underlying engineering data (displacements, velocities, accelerations, forces) to make design decisions, you should consider either Motion or Motion Professional.
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