Evan on Engineering Software

I'm sitting in a conference room, listening to a Q&A session with Siemens PLM executives.

Chuck Grindstaff just answered, yet another time, the question of how Synchronous Technology is distingushed from CoCreate (and, implicitly, Kubotek and SpaceClaim.  This time, I thought the answer was even clearer than in the past.  He said that Synchonous Technology combines three things:

• Direct editing,
  
• A Feature recognition engine, and
  
• 3d constraint management & optimization.

It's the last item that I've not really found a good way of describing up till now.  This is the part that allows the re-parameterization of dumb models.

The way Chuck described the last item doesn't, however, tell everthing.  NX, for example, uses Synchronous Technology to add associative intelligence (e.g. cae meshes, toolpaths, PMI data) to inferred features on dumb models.  You might want to think about the implications there.