« Convergent hybrid modeling is clearly a standout area where we’re ahead. That is unique to Siemens, and the Solid Edge implementation is particularly good. If you’re mixing facets with BREP technology, there’s just nobody who can touch us in that domain. It may not be obvious, but the big nut that has been cracked here is that in the past if you took a mesh model and a BREP model and did a boolean between them, the result would be all mesh. That’s no longer true. Everything that was mesh stays mesh, everything that was BREP stays BREP even though they are now conjoined. » Dan Staple, Vice President of Maintenance Engineering for Siemens