What is Dynamic Designer for Solid Edge

               Solid Edge gives you world-class capabilities to design and build realistic 3D solid models representing the form of your parts. Solid Edge also allows you to create assemblies of the 3D solid parts in order to allow you to clearly understand whether the parts will properly together as an assembly. What Solid Edge will not do is provide you with the ability to know if your design will actually meet it's intended (and sometimes unintended) performance criteria? To determine if a design will perform as expected, the physical assembly is produced and a series of costly lab or field tests are done. This testing usually produces several design changes and the process continues until all production performance criteria are met.  The problem with this is that design validation is done too late in the process.

Don't Wait to Validate!

Dynamic Designer allows you understand the true dynamic function of your design inside the Solid Edge environment before your produce or assembly physical hardware.  Design Validation with Dynamic Designer allows you to build, test and refine the function of your CAD models and output the same performance information typically gathered physically (e.g. part interference, motor size, cam performance, gear and linkage layout, etc.). Using Dynamic Designer you will understand the mechanics of your design before you cut metal or mold plastic, all within the familiar Solid Edge environment. Design revisions are easier and less costly if motion problems are identified before you build and test a physical assembly. If you have questions about how a design works or performs, Dynamic Designer can help you.

The Products - Three Levels to Meet Your Needs and Budget

The Dynamic Designer product family consists of:

• Motion Professional
• Motion
• Simply Motion

Motion Professional provides you with the complete motion validation functionality required to make sure your designs will work properly before you build them.  Motion and Simply Motion are subsets of the Motion Professional product and are used to understand substantial, but limited aspects of a mechanism motion. Simply Motion currently comes free with every copy of Solid Edge so if you already have Solid Edge, you already have Simply Motion

The Process - Four Easy Steps

Regardless of which product you choose, all Dynamic Designer products help you test the function of your mechanisms before you build them. The process involves four simple steps: Creating the Motion Model Adding/Controlling Motion Running the Simulation Reviewing Results Creating a Motion Model Once a Solid Edge assembly is complete, mechanical joints are easily created, either by automatically converting them from your existing assembly constraints using Dynamic Designer’s Automatic Constraint Mapping, or by using the unique Intellimotion builder which walks you through the step-by-step model building process. Adding/Controlling Motion To make your simulation closely reflect real word functionality, Dynamic Designer allows you to add various motion characteristics to your model. Dynamic Designer supports motors, actuators, gravity, realistic contact between bodies, springs, friction, damping and other generated forces as needed.

If you have Solid Edge, you have Simply Motion!

Simply Motion is part of every copy of Solid Edge.Try it now under the Environment->Motion menu.

See assembly motion and check for interferences.

Simply Motion is a subset of both Motion and Motion Professional. It adds motion to your Solid Edge assembly, generates animations, and checks for interference as your parts move. The designs can contain components like linkages, motors, actuators, and springs. Simply Motion should be used by designers who only need to visually verify the motion of their moving assembly, who need to check for interference as the parts move, and who are not concerned with the forces (e.g. friction, dampers, etc.) that act on their design. Using Simply Motion is typically as simple as adding an actuator (e.g. motor) to the existing assembly model. If you need to model more complicated mechanical components (cams, gears, latches, chains, belts, etc.) and/or use the underlying engineering data (displacements, velocities, accelerations, forces) to make design decisions, you should consider either Motion or Motion Professional.

Simulate all aspects of mechanism motion.

Motion Professional is the complete virtual testing package for designers and engineer. Using animations and XY plots you will size motors/actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear drives, size springs/dampers, determine how contacting parts behave, generate operating loads suitable for use by Finite Element Analysis, and much much more. Knowing this information will help you answer two fundamental engineering questions: "Will it work?" and "Will it break?". If you are a designer or engineer interested in understanding the performance aspects of your design before physical prototyping, you need Motion Professional.