{"id":2740,"date":"2008-06-02T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/New-in-Part-and-Assembly-Modeling-for-Solid-Edge\/ba-p\/333645"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:23:29","slug":"new-in-part-and-assembly-modeling-for-solid-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/new-in-part-and-assembly-modeling-for-solid-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"New in Part and Assembly Modeling for Solid Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Doug Stainbrook described the &#8220;what&#8217;s new&#8221; in part and assembly modeling. This is verging on making the engineers drool and getting a little over my head however all my <EM>Edgers<\/EM> out there will love that I captured a few highlights from his presentation. This is not everything, just what I my little fingers could capture! If you want to see Solid Edge for yourself, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/launch\/regional.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">one of the events near you<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/><STRONG>Selection Driven<\/STRONG><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Pick what you want to act upon, then act<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Single Pick, fence pick, or using the selection manager (&#8220;green dot&#8221;)<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><STRONG>Direct interaction with the model<\/STRONG><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Intelligence such as tangent, concentric and so on, are captured in the model geometry<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>If you are thinking, &#8220;I need to edit my sketch to edit my model.&#8221; then you are thinking the &#8220;old&#8221; way<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>In Synchronous Technology, you do NOT need to lock every dimension (better to leave your dimensions unlocked, only locking values as necessary for a particular edit<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><STRONG>Stering Wheel &#8211;<\/STRONG> did you catch the <a href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/index.php\/site\/using-the-solid-edge-st-steering-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">latest post today from Mark on the Steering Wheel<\/A>?<BR \/><BR \/><STRONG>Live Rules<\/STRONG><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Unlike previous systems where sketches rule the day, in Synchronous Technology the model itself contains the key knowledge<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>When you go to move a face, the system will AUTOMATICALLY look to see if other faces should be adjusted to maintain logical intent<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Trust the Model &#8211; When you make an edit, it will be localized to the geometry you are addressing<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><STRONG>Part changes can be made while in the Assembly<\/STRONG><BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Synchronous Assemblies provide two new tools for selection:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Command bar controls over all selection<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Selection Manager provides tools for additional selection based on what is currently selecte<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Move Face:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Selecting multiple faces on the same part will behave exactly as if you were in the part document outside the context of an assembly<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Selecting multiple faces on different parts will allow the faces to move together as if each part were being modified within their respective part documents<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace2_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/06\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace2_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2440\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/06\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace2_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"192\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/06\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2441\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/06\/WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterNewinPartandAssemblyModeling_C9F8MoveFace_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"189\" \/><\/A>&nbsp;<BR \/><\/P><DIV id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:23941350-8674-49c5-8bb6-388827cc38ee\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Siemens PLM Software\">Siemens PLM Software<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Siemens\">Siemens<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Solid Edge\">Solid Edge<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Synchronous Technology\">Synchronous Technology<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/plmconam08\">plmconam08<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Stainbrook described the &#8220;what&#8217;s new&#8221; in part and assembly modeling. This is verging on making the engineers drool and getting a little over my head however all my Edgers out there will love tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}