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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software | Subject: 3D CAD Software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 July 2003
Boats, selects EDS' Solid Edge 3D CAD
Software
Luxury motor yachts builder, Fairline Boats, has selected Solid Edge 3D mechanical design software to help improve its product development processes and short
EDS ha announced that luxury motor yachts builder, Fairline Boats, has selected Solid Edge 3D mechanical design software to help improve its product development processes and shorten its time-to-market The software has been supplied and implemented at Fairline's headquarters in Oundle, Northamptonshire by Oxfordshire-based EDS value-added reseller, Cutting Edge Solutions Ltd
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Solid Edge, which will eventually replace Fairline Boats' existing 2D computer-aided drafting system, will enable the motor yacht builder's design team to more readily use the 3D hull design data that it receives from its naval architect.
This design data forms the basis for the extensive design and development work required to turn an empty hull shape into a fully fitted-out luxury motor yacht.
Traditionally, this process has required the designers to convert the 3D hull design into a series of 2D plans and sections before they can start their design work.
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"We selected Solid Edge as our new 3D design tool because, having looked at the different software products on the market", says Adam Greenwood, Fairline Boats' technical manager, "we concluded that it provides the easiest transition from a 2D drafting-based approach to design to one based on 3D solid modelling.
At the same time it provides us the ability to undertake advanced applications such as rapid prototyping and the CNC milling of major components.
Solid Edge will therefore be a major contributor to our aim of reducing our time-to-market, while containing costs." Benefits already show.
Although Fairline Boats has only recently begun deployment of Solid Edge, the software is already bringing real benefits in terms of time-savings to the design and development process.
For example, the assembly modelling and clash detection capabilities of Solid Edge are used as an integral part of the new design development process.
This enables Fairline's design engineers to ensure that all the major components of a boat's deck equipment and interior fittings etc fit together properly within the hull design, as the design progresses.
This alone will save a great deal of the time - and cost - previously spent making changes to the design to overcome problems at the build stage.
Meanwhile, the design visualisation facilities within Solid Edge help everyone involved better understand the fit and function of components during the regular design review meetings, once again reducing errors and saving time.
"We are already benefiting from the use of Solid Edge through the ability to be more accurate, to produce better design information and to ensure fit and function at the design stage", says Greenwood.
"However, we anticipate that even greater benefits are to come downstream.
For example", he explains, "Solid Edge's facility for producing STL files will enable us to use rapid prototyping technology, while the 3D solid models will also enable us to develop more accurate tooling and to improve the process of laser cutting sections.
All of this will help us to improve our time-to-market while containing our costs, helping Fairline Boats maintain its leading position in the luxury motor yachts marketplace".
Solid Edge from EDS is powerful 3D CAD software that allows manufacturing companies to 'Design with Insight' and to reduce time to market, increase quality and lower cost.
The exclusive Solid Edge Insight technology embeds design management capabilities directly within CAD, providing insight into design intent to the entire organisation and enhancing collaboration.
Insight, complemented by Solid Edge's superior core modelling and process workflows, has reduced engineering change orders (ECOs) and their related rework by 50 percent or more.
The extensive Solid Edge user community, which totals more than 135,000 software seats worldwide, comprises designers at thousands of companies and universities, including Dyson, Mayflower, John Crane, Philips Broadcasting Systems, Alcoa, NEC Engineering, Volvo, Edinburgh University and Yale University.
The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes some 160 integrated, complementary engineering software applications and computer hardware solutions.
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