{"id":2133,"date":"2019-07-23T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/What-s-New-in-Solid-Edge-2020-Mechanical-Design\/ba-p\/611556"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:32:09","slug":"whats-new-in-solid-edge-2020-mechanical-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/whats-new-in-solid-edge-2020-mechanical-design\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in Solid Edge 2020: Mechanical Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN>As discussed previously on the Solid Edge Blog, Solid Edge 2020 boasts a wide variety of powerful new features, packaged together as part of our latest software product release.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><SPAN>To demonstrate the power of our new mechanical design capabilities in Solid Edge, we&#8217;ve put together a short video to show you the basics.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/vc-bg-hero-3d-design-2.jpg\" alt=\"vc-bg-hero-3d-design.jpg\" title=\"vc-bg-hero-3d-design.jpg\" \/><\/span><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/resource\/video\/mechanical-design-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Our latest video on Solid Edge Mechanical Design<\/A> provides a few examples of how state-of-the-art sheet metal tools included in Solid Edge 2020 are built to handle far more complex transitional parts, allowing you complete control over the bending methods used when creating these transitional shapes. <\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/solutions\/products\/3d-design\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge Mechnical Design<\/A> allows you to do things like q<\/SPAN><SPAN>uickly focus on the task at hand, or to find parts anywhere in the design by using refined searched tools that let you search by component properties such as name, title, document, number, etc.&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Other new and improved commands in Solid Edge 2020 provide quick, simple solutions to modeling cuts required to alleviate mechanical deformation that occurs around a part\u2019s bend edges. This happens in the manufacturing process when sheet metal is folded, and is particularly prevalent on thicker parts. Of course, these cuts are also visible in the flat pattern, especially when a part has multiple revisions.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Also part of the Solid Edge portfolio is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/partner\/keyshot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KeyShot<\/A>, which enables you to create beautiful photo-realistic renderings, in which you can&nbsp;easily create cutaway views to expose internal part geometry.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><H2>Mechanical Design in Solid Edge 2020 (Video)<\/H2><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/resource\/video\/mechanical-design-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Watch the video<\/A> to learn how next generation technology included in <a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/solutions\/products\/complete-product-development-portfolio\/whats-new-in-solid-edge-2020\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge 2020<\/A> and KeyShot enable you to visualize ideas and bring your products to life.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 999px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Mechanical-Design-in-Solid-Edge-1.png\" alt=\"Mechanical Design in Solid Edge.PNG\" title=\"Mechanical Design in Solid Edge.PNG\" \/><\/span><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/resource\/video\/mechanical-design-in-solid-edge\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Watch the video<\/A> to learn how next generation technology included in <a href=\"https:\/\/solidedge.siemens.com\/en\/solutions\/products\/complete-product-development-portfolio\/whats-new-in-solid-edge-2020\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge 2020<\/A> and KeyShot enable you to visualize ideas and bring your products to life.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed previously on the Solid Edge Blog, Solid Edge 2020 boasts a wide variety of powerful new features, packaged together as part of our latest software product release.&nbsp;  To demonstrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30919,"featured_media":2141,"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":[1,183],"tags":[7,8],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates","tag-manufacturing","tag-simulation"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Mechanical-Design-in-Solid-Edge-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}