EDS PLM Solutions Announces New Rapid Blue Complex Shape Creation Technology with Solid Edge Version 14

PLANO, Texas, 18 Feb 2003 � At the Solid Edge Global Summit in Orlando Florida, EDS today announced a revolutionary new shape creation technology called Rapid Blue. With Rapid Blue, Solid Edge takes a major leap forward into the consumer products market as well as other industries requiring complex shape creation. Rapid Blue was announced today as part of a major launch of Solid Edge Version 14, EDS� industry-leading, value-based 3D computer-aided design (CAD) system for the mainstream market. (See "EDS Launches Solid Edge� Version 14.")

Rapid Blue consists of a series of unique features including Blue Dots, Blue Surfs, shape preserving curves, convert to curve, dynamic editing, and complementary features such as surface blending, filleting and analysis capabilities for robust complex shape creation. More than just another surface modeler, Rapid Blue shape creation technology builds on the surface cleanup capabilities released in Solid Edge V12 to free designers from systematic history based constraints of other design systems.

"Historically, users of surface design software have been constrained to their history trees," said Dan Staples director of the Solid Edge business unit at EDS PLM Solutions. "Today, with Rapid Blue Technology, Solid Edge shatters that barrier, providing users with a flexible, worry-free, you�re-in-control approach to designing complex shapes that gives you the shape you want by eliminating dependence on the history tree."

Shape preserving curves provide highly predictable behavior during shape creation and editing with silhouette points, edit points and control vertices, allowing preservation of the initial sketched shape.

Blue Dots deliver highly editable, order-independent curve editing capability that shatters the barriers of history-based modeling. Blue Dots, an industry-first tool, addresses order dependency and provides more freedom and control for evaluating and manipulating shapes in real-time.

The new convert-to-curve feature provides editable curve creation from primitive foundation geometry, allowing users to design through a simple, practical workflow that speeds design by modifying simple shapes into complex ones without starting over.

Dynamic Edit is a new powerful continuous results calculation that provides instant visual feedback on geometry changes to allow users to dynamically evaluate shape and highlight alternatives, including the impact to all downstream features, without concern for history.

Blue Surf delivers powerful shape generation using curves, Blue Dots and dynamic editing, plus a process-oriented workflow to get the shape you desire quickly and easily without concern for history.

Rapid Blue is complemented by filleting and blending capability that provides production hardened, G2 continuous face blending that can fillet virtually any solvable solution. Rapid Blue also performs surface analysis, including curvature display analyzing the continuity between elements and zebra striping analyzing edge continuity.

"The new Rapid Blue technology epitomizes the Solid Edge approach to design: flexible, practical, reliable, fast; created by engineers for engineers," said Bruce Boes, vice president of marketing and business strategy for Solid Edge. "With this new capability, Solid Edge is poised to bring its proven design, assembly, production drafting and built-in design management capabilities to the designers of consumer products and other producers of complex shapes. Solid Edge has placed more 135,000 seats into the market to date, with access to only 70 percent of the market. This move opens up as much as 30 percent more market to Solid Edge and will undoubtedly accelerate our consistently growing presence in the mainstream market immediately and for years to come."

"My tests proved that new surfacing tools in Solid Edge provide exactly what we need to design our deep fryers, steamers and coffee makers that appeal to the consumer market," said Solid Edge beta software tester Olivier Pellerin from Groupe SEB, in Is Sur Tille, France.

"Rapid Blue dramatically expands product possibilities by delivering direct freeform surface interaction in mainstream CAD," says research director Ken Versprille, Ph.D. of D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. "Rapid Blue's dynamic feedback of surface creation and edit leapfrogs comparable solutions in providing flexible design capabilities."

The Solution

Solid Edge from EDS is powerful 3D CAD software that allows manufacturing companies to Design with Insight and to reduce time to market, improve 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 organization and enhancing collaboration. Insight, complemented by Solid Edge�s superior core modeling and process workflows, has reduced Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and their related rework by 50 percent or more. The extensive Solid Edge user community is comprised of designers at thousands of companies and universities, including, Amana, Philips Broadcasting Systems, Pella Windows, Alcoa, NEC Engineering, Volvo, and Yale University using more than 135,000 seats worldwide. The Solid Edge Voyager Program includes 160 integrated complementary, engineering software applications and computer hardware solutions.

About EDS

EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers' trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2002. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. 

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