SIEMENS DIGITAL INDUSTRIES SOFTWARE

Solid Edge Design Configurator
Create customized designs at the click of a button
Benefits

Summary• Automates repetitive design tasks to boost

Solid Edge® Design Configurator software delivers powerful design automation

productivity• Configures products quickly and easily toaccelerate configure-to-order and engineer-to-order processes• Creates more compelling sales proposals
quickly, increasing win and bid rate
• Improves order lead time, throughput
and margins• Results in fewer order and job site
correction errors• Delivers faster time-to-market for newproducts

capabilities within the Solid Edge environment. This software, which is part of theXcelerator™ portfolio, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software andservices from Siemens Digital Industries Software, is a design automation application that adds rule-based automation to a user’s familiar Solid Edge mechanicaldesign environment. Completely embedded in Solid Edge, it enables the quick
customization of products based on design parameters and rules. Rule-based
automation can boost productivity and design speed.
Dramatically reduce product design time
Offering unique products is a competitive strategy that creates distinctive value,
wins more business and increases customer loyalty; however, manual design
customization can be expensive, error-prone and time-consuming. Using Solid
Edge Design Configurator allows your team to rapidly design products to customer
specification while eliminating expensive errors inherent in manual design
customization.

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Features

Faster, more compelling and accurate sales proposals• Advanced rule-based automation of 3D

Sales proposals for customized products often require long lead times for design

CAD, drawings, BOMS, 3D visualization,tasks. Solid Edge Design Configurator enables the user to automate key compo-technical design docs

nents of this sales engineering process, providing related outputs such as a costed• Easy-to-use rule authoring within theSolid Edge environment• Guided configuration process within
Solid Edge
• Guided configuration within a webbrowser• Batch automation of design jobs

bill-of-materials (BOM), compelling 3D visualizations and sales drawings.
Responding more quickly to requests for quote (RFQ) while providing strong technical data in every proposal can help a company win business. The ability to quickly
engineer a detailed design at the point of sale (POS) enables more accurate costestimations, providing you with the information to conduct more confident pricenegotiations and realize more predictable margins on orders.
Shorter order lead times
Automating many of the repetitive design tasks involved in the order engineering
process can reduce overall order lead time and engineering costs. Equally important, shorter order lead times can be quoted during the sales process, yielding amore competitive offer. Design automation reduces margin-eroding engineeringorder errors.
More time for product innovation
For many small and medium-sized businesses, the same engineering team istasked with order engineering and new product innovation. Unfortunately, orders
typically take priority over new product development. Automating the order engineering process allows more time for product innovation.
Easy-to-use yet powerful rule-authoring environment
The Solid Edge Design Configurator allows users to capture the engineering rules
and parameters that drive a product’s design. Configuration rules are definedwithin Solid Edge, using a step-by-step guided process without the need forprogramming knowledge. A comprehensive suite of tools is available for capturing
a wide range of rule types including:• Engineering formulas• Geometry-related rules, which are easily mapped to the parameters of the3D model• Drawing automation rules• BOM rules• User interface (UI) rules for building a guided design configuration process• Truth table rules for easily capturing a design variation matrix and many more

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Once authored, rules can be quickly tested
within the current Solid Edge session. There’s noneed to compile rules and start a separate
run-time session for testing. This greatly speeds
the rule develop/test loop.
Guided design configuration in Solid Edge
Solid Edge users can quickly generate new
designs without ever leaving the design environment. A graphical user interface leads theuser through the functional product specification while rules certify only valid product selections are made. Once the functional productrequirements are completed, Solid Edge Design
Configurator is used to generate the productdesign and associated design artifacts.

By harnessing the latest innovative technologies

A better solution

in mechanical and electrical design, simulation,

Using Solid Edge Design Configurator eliminates
the need for custom programming a solution or
a complex spreadsheet tied to computer-aided
design (CAD) via application programming
interfaces (APIs). Such home-grown solutions

manufacturing, publications, data management
and cloud-based collaboration, using Solid Edge
dramatically shortens time-to-market, provides
greater production flexibility and significantly
reduces costs with its collaborative and scalable

can be difficult to maintain, hard to scale andsolutions.

often significantly lag product design changes

Minimum system requirements

and evolving business rules. Built for designers• Windows 10 Enterprise or Professionaland embedded in Solid Edge, this product is(64 bit only) version 1809 or latereasy for designers to learn and use.
Extending value
The Solid Edge portfolio is an integrated set of
powerful, comprehensive and accessible toolsthat advance all aspects of the product development process. Solid Edge addresses today’scomplexity challenges with automated digitalsolutions that cultivate creativity andcollaboration.

• 16 gigabyte (GB) random access memory(RAM) for commercial use and 8 GB RAM for
academic use• 65K colors• Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080

Siemens DigitalIndustries Software• 8.5 GB of disk space required for installation

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