Solid Edge Review
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What is Solid Edge?
Solid Edge is a software solutions for product development — 3D design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and cloud collaboration. Solid Edge aims to combine the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.
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What is Solid Edge?
Solid Edge is a portfolio of software tools that advance all aspects of the product development process – mechanical and electrical design, simulation, manufacturing, technical documentation, data management, and cloud-based collaboration.
Developed on Siemens' technologies, Solid Edge provides a comprehensive approach to product development for the mainstream market.
Developed on Siemens' technologies, Solid Edge provides a comprehensive approach to product development for the mainstream market.
Solid Edge Features
- Supported: Drawing Tools
- Supported: 3D Modeling Tools
- Supported: Editing Tools
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Solid Edge Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Solid Edge is a software solutions for product development — 3D design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and cloud collaboration. Solid Edge aims to combine the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.
The most common users of Solid Edge are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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July 14, 2023
Scaling faster and better with Solid Edge
We use Solid Edge to create new designs and customize existing designs. We work with remote teams that can work on same projects remotely. Solid Edge licence management can be improved to support stand alone computers and multiple users. Like many other start ups we work remotely and don't use internet network to run a licence server. For that we need for each computer a standalone licence to run the software.
- Team share center
- mechanical design
- rendering
- FEM analysis
- Licence management
- Not having MAC compatibility
- Mechanical design
- Team center
- FEM
- Faster manufacturing
- Better documentation management
June 16, 2022
Very good design and drafting application.
In our organization total 2 departments are using solid edge, Process and Design. We are using solid edge for general-purpose CAD and for drawing and designing. The main purpose of using Solid edge is to design gauges and tools. We are managing more than 400 types of fixtures. Sometimes we have to make changes in design and need to analyze it through drawings. We also need to update drawings based on customer requirements. Sometimes we are using for creating gauges and fixtures of new product development. We have to perform Design for Manufacturing of new models and need to take look at the assembly of the machine to see if there are any diddictulty in operations. Sometimes design need to produce special models of products in that case we have to help them designing die and manufacturing tools for supplier.
- It has very good user interface in classic or ordered environment.
- In 2D or drafting, you can give any Geometric tolerancing and symbols to any dimension. There is a wide range of options available.
- You can convert any files in step file (.stp) and can open it in other designing applications easily.
- After converting 3D drawings in 2D you can make changes in 2D drawing by converting it in the draft. You can also add details like cross-sections and detailed view.
- You can directly make threads without creating holes.
- You can not create holes in cylindrical or curved surfaces directly. First, you will have to create a plane, and then only you can create holes or threads.
- In synchronous mode, if you have created a drawing and then extruded it, later if you will edit the drawing there won't be any changes in subsequent parts.
- There are some errors switching between the synchronous and ordered mode.
- Their pattern command is a little complicated you need to see the tutorial for curved pattern.
- Threads
- Pattern
- Smart dimensions
- Extrude
- Holes
- Round & Chamfer
- mass properties
- We have purchased a server version of solid edge so for one license 6 people can operate it at a time which is economically all viable.
- We have integrated it with PLM Teamcenter so we can share drawings and other files across other factories.
- Solid edge is less famous than Solid Works so sometimes you have to convert it into step files.
- It is very productive and easy to lean application for everyone.
First, we were using AutoCAD in our industry then we switched it to Solid edge. AutoCAD isn't well suited for 3D drawing and it takes very much time to make 3D in AutoCAD. In Solid Edge, you can create 3D drawings and convert them into 2D instantly without much effort. You can also make any changes in parts directly which is not that much easy in AutoCAD. AutoCAD in well suite for plant layout and 2D drawings. You can not create features like holes and threads in AutoCAD which w used most. There are not many annotations available for easy use in AutoCAD.
September 22, 2019
Operationally Functional but Flawed by Design.
Siemens Solid Edge is used across out organisation as the primary Computer Aided Design package with which the company models our products in 3D and produces 2D drawings (drafts) to aid in the manufacture of products. By using a single CAD package across the whole organisation, the company is able to enforce standards and best practice on all designers. The whole organisation makes use of the product and is integrated into the Siemens Team Centre PLM suite.
- Integration with Siemens Team Centre suite, as well as other PLM solutions.
- Parameterisation of CAD models to allow a single design to be used in multiple applications.
- License management which allows multiple users to be allocated a fixed number of licenses, thus saving on operational costs and meaning that costly licences are not going unused.
- The usability of Solid Edge does not compare well to a product like SOLIDWORKS. Being a high-end CAD package, it is assumed by Siemens that training will be undertaken to learn to use the product, and thus the interface is not as user-friendly as it could be.
- Workflows in Solid Edge are not very easy to follow and require previous experience with a specific tool to be able to figure out how to use it. Contrasted to a product like Onshape, which utilises an intuitive workflow process, Solid Edge is a challenge to get to know.
- The cost of a Solid Edge license is not justified by the functionality that it offers. In my opinion, for the cost, there are better packages out there. With Solid Edge, you are paying for the luxury of being able to integrate into a variety of other software offerings, many of which the standard user will never touch.
- Solid Edge has allowed the company to standardize its drawing practice and product consistent quality data packs.
- Solid Edge has integrated perfectly into the Siemens Team Centre PLM solution, which has allowed the company to apply approval workflows to all content generated, thus ensuring that no steps are skipped and clients are happy.
- The choice of Solid Edge as a CAD package has resulted in high license costs each year due to the high number of users that need access to the package.
SOLIDWORKS has a really intuitive interface for a traditional CAD package. It is easy to use, easy to learn and is perfectly suited for any user. Solid Edge lacks this ease of use.
Autodesk Inventor is great for personal use as well as in small businesses. It is easy to learn, produces great models quickly and is very reasonably priced.
My personal favourite, Onshape has redefined what CAD is meant to be, as well as the way in which it is meant to be used. It is highly functional, intuitive, and changes the way in which CAD is perceived by the user. It is much more interactive than traditional CAD packages.
Autodesk Inventor is great for personal use as well as in small businesses. It is easy to learn, produces great models quickly and is very reasonably priced.
My personal favourite, Onshape has redefined what CAD is meant to be, as well as the way in which it is meant to be used. It is highly functional, intuitive, and changes the way in which CAD is perceived by the user. It is much more interactive than traditional CAD packages.
February 23, 2019
Want to save time? Want to save money? Want to save yourself some mental anguish? Check out Solid Edge.
I occasionally use Solid Edge on personal time. Sometimes I'm at home and want to turn an idea into a 3D model. Sometimes I had a particularly difficult part/assembly edit at work (where we use SOLIDWORKS) and I want to see how much faster and easier it would have been in Solid Edge. I'm hoping to find enough benefits to using Solid Edge that my work will consider adopting it as our primary CAD platform.
At a previous workplace, I used Solid Edge to import and work with dumb solids. It did a great job of optimizing the parts and assemblies for moldability, and would speed up the engineering process of designing parts and molds for plastic injection molding.
At a previous workplace, I used Solid Edge to import and work with dumb solids. It did a great job of optimizing the parts and assemblies for moldability, and would speed up the engineering process of designing parts and molds for plastic injection molding.
- Faster and easier changes to parts and assemblies. A feature can easily be moved, resized, deleted, etc. independently of features created afterward.
- Very effective tools to work with parts and assemblies from other CAD programs. The same technology that improves edits to parts and assemblies also speeds up handling files that might come up as dumb solids.
- Better performance, especially with large assemblies. Opening the same files in other CAD programs are slower and clunkier.
- The user interface isn't quite as intuitive. It might simply be I learned SOLIDWORKS first, but some of the steps of doing something seem backward.
- Solid Edge doesn't have anything I feel is comparable to my favorite SOLIDWORKS add-in, HSMXpress
- I've never gotten the fastener library to work right.
- It took about 20 hours of use to get the basics of Synchronous Technology, and with just a basic competency I was able to make useful changes to the design. One of those changes was impossible to do our other CAD program.
- My use lately has mostly been on personal time and self-driven, so learning other aspects and features of Solid Edge has been slower. Creating a drawing for a part required a few hours to learn and do the first time, but luckily there were YouTube videos for examples. With practice, I would expect the time to reflect what it takes in SOLIDWORKS (about 30 minutes).
Solid Edge and SOLIDWORKS can be very similar in the resulting output of parts, assemblies, and drawings.
The difference lies in what goes into getting those results. SOLIDWORKS is held back by slower editing as the parts gain more and more features, and becomes dangerous when there's a hidden domino effect. SOLIDWORKS can often require more time and effort to get it done right. To ensure the changes you make only affect the desired features, Solid Edge is the better solution.
The difference lies in what goes into getting those results. SOLIDWORKS is held back by slower editing as the parts gain more and more features, and becomes dangerous when there's a hidden domino effect. SOLIDWORKS can often require more time and effort to get it done right. To ensure the changes you make only affect the desired features, Solid Edge is the better solution.
- The Steering Wheel is an amazing tool for editing parts. Move features, resize them, and create new features from existing geometry are my favorites.
- Adjusting part features to match other part features in an assembly is quick and easy.
- Basic geometric shapes (box and cylinder) are frequently used, so it's nice to have a feature that makes them really quick and easy to implement.
- Basically, any function I haven't used multiple times feels cumbersome. Since my use of Solid Edge lately has mostly been on personal time and self-driven, there's a lot I haven't done multiple times.
February 22, 2019
Review from a 20+ year mechanical designer turned instructor
I am the instructor of the Canadian Valley Technology Center CAD program. Solid Edge is used with & by students pursuing a career in mechanical drafting/engineering. The capabilities of synchronous technology enables our students to spend more time designing due to its flexibility and ease of use.
- Synchronous technology allows a user to spend less time studying on how to model and more time designing.
- The portfolio of Siemens products incorporated into Solid Edge like Teamcenter and Mentor allows the students to gain exposure to other industry-leading applications.
- Solid Edge has less of a learning curve and Siemens Learning Advantage is a great gateway for up-to-date tutorials.
- I have only used the software in an educational environment, therefore, have only witnessed the advantages over other packages.
- I would like to see more abilities to automate parts/assemblies/drawings through logic as opposed to suppressed states. However, I have not used it to the full potential.
- Possibly incorporate or have plugins for other PLM/PDM applications like Vault or Windchill. In my limited capacity as a user, it is possible there currently are some available.
- Helped with meeting deadlines better because a user can spend more time designing thanks to ST and less time redefining/studying models to incorporate required changes. Better ROI.
- Efforts are being made in to address this, but offering the software for free to schools, having effective marketing, and having more regional reps to attract customers and to produce more competent users for hiring. This will allow for more recruitment at vocational schools and allow company training to focus more on internal processes and less time on Solid Edge training.
- Solid Edge has played a big role helping secondary students realize their designs faster and easier.
Synchronous technology stands above the rest by a large margin. Having the ability to perform direct or parametric modeling in the same application is a huge benefit.