Solid Edge for top level engineers
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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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Design and Drafting XaaS
$110.00
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$335.00
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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 2023: Value Based Licensing
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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 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 29, 2024
Solid Edge for top level engineers
- Easy rendering
- Fast plane selection
- Multi-peripheral compatibility
- Easy to use tools
- Onsite and webinar training available
- The ability to share files to previous version users
- Importing more extension types
- More training facilities worldwide
July 26, 2023
Solid Edge Review
- Solid Edge synchronous technology
- parametric design
- design development
- user interface
- technical support
- generative AI
- integration with other softwares
July 17, 2023
Full featured CAD system
- Sheet metal design
- Assembly design
- Simulation
- Wider industry popularity
July 17, 2023
Point of view from an Administrator
- Intuitive constructions
- Assembly conveyors
- Performance
- The new vertical toolbar kills most of the drawing space
- The context menu icons are pretty small and can't be resized to a bigger size
July 14, 2023
Scaling faster and better with Solid Edge
- Team share center
- mechanical design
- rendering
- FEM analysis
- Licence management
- Not having MAC compatibility
July 11, 2023
Solid Edge review
- Generative Design tool box
- Other CAD Designs compatibility
- User-friendly
- Some times it crashes very easily
July 11, 2023
View from an Administrator and Developer.
- It's easy and intuitive to use.
- You can customize a lot to your needs.
- It's hard or sometimes impossible to undo certain operations.
- Documents get "dirty" even if you just change the view.
June 16, 2022
Very good design and drafting application.
- 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.
May 16, 2021
Solid Edge, pioneers of designing world.
- It is a powerful tool for 3-D model base design
- Customized step by step files of design
- Easy sketch pad
- Manu[al] tabs are should be like CATIA software
September 22, 2019
Operationally Functional but Flawed by Design.
- 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.
July 09, 2019
Solid Edge 2D is a great tool to keep in the toolbox
- Solid Edge handles DWG files well. It doesn't seem to have as much trouble as some other CAD programs opening and translating DWG files.
- Solid Edge runs smoothly, and I suspect this has to do with the quality of the software rather than the hardware I am using. Some other CAD programs have trouble with larger files.
- The intelligent cursor feature is powerful and intuitive. The software 'guesses' if, for example, you are trying to draw a horizontal line rather than a line at some angle. Its intelligent snaps are similarly powerful and useful.
- Being used to 2-key and 3-key commands from the keyboard, it would be nice if this was more robust in Solid Edge. The capability of programming keystroke commands exists in Solid Edge, but it would be more user friendly in that regard.
- Editing hatches can be a challenge.
- I'm not a fan of the ribbon bar, but that seems to be a feature across software platforms in Windows.
March 18, 2019
Solid Edge
- Easy to model
- Easy to creat blueprints/drafts
- Easy to create assemblies
- Textures don't look real
- You can not move an object so easily
March 05, 2019
Solid Edge: CAD for the real world
Score 10 out of 10
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- Allows designers to work as they choose and not have to acclimate their work for the product's requirements. This results in productive use of Edge, thus an ROI for the company.
- Manage large (high count of components) assemblies very well. Users spend little to no time trying to overcome speed issue with respect to assemblies.
- Synchronous Design! This highly productive design process is unique to Edge and very addictive
- School/university exposure and saturation is low, students getting hired out of school are unaware of Edge.
- Market perception: competitors win the popularity contest in the CAD world. Yet, Edge is by far the functional king of the industry.
February 23, 2019
Want to save time? Want to save money? Want to save yourself some mental anguish? Check out Solid Edge.
- 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.
February 22, 2019
Electro-mechanical designers choose Solid Edge
- Synchronous technology with design intent is a powerful design aid. We've found it so much faster to design this way.
- Built-in data manager gives us the ability to have all our Solid Edge files on our PC and have it synced to all others on our team. Files lock as they should and the speed couldn't be better.
- Support is great. The community group has the most answers to the "how do I" questions.
- At some point, I'd like to see an online version of Solid Edge so we don't have to have workstations to run the program.
- It would be nice to have a simple way to make a monolithic (one part) part from an assembly while being able to hide interior features without having to manually alter the part file.
- Threads on screws are an image rather than modeled. This is nice as it saves on file size in an assembly, but some times I need to see the threads. It would be nice to have a way to model the threads easily if needed.
February 22, 2019
Review from a 20+ year mechanical designer turned instructor
- 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.