Solid Edge Review
we use Solid Edge for design. we use it do draw and design to our projects
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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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Solid Edge 2023: Simulation
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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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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.
March 05, 2019
Solid Edge: CAD for the real world
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
I train people in Solid Edge as the basis of my business. I also use Edge to do occasional design work for my customers, as well as use it to support users remotely.
- 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.
- Mostly positive. My objective was to become a household name in technical training. Solid Edge's consistency in the market, and the vision to pioneer and maintain the synchronous design approach, means objective achieved.
- along the way, Insight technology became a standard with small and medium-sized companies (as far as the number of users). Installation and support of Insight became 50% of my business revenue, and the ill-conceived decision by sales to drop support for SharePoint, and thus Insight, was negative. not just for me, but by far a negative reaction in the industry.
It's actually simple Solid Works wins the popularity contest, AutoCad has so many years of user base
Solid Edge wins the functionality portion of any comparison ($ to performance) to any product. eventually, companies realize this after the barrage of marketing. As the owner of the Parasolid Kernel, Edge thus is obviously the market survivor.
Solid Edge wins the functionality portion of any comparison ($ to performance) to any product. eventually, companies realize this after the barrage of marketing. As the owner of the Parasolid Kernel, Edge thus is obviously the market survivor.
No
my contract with Siemens includes support
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yes - it was verified and submitted to development for a fix. I was aware of the process from start to finish.