{"id":1108,"date":"2011-06-15T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Solid-Edge-ST4-has-arrived\/ba-p\/334710"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:05:08","slug":"solid-edge-st4-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/solid-edge-st4-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Edge ST4 has arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG class=\"size-full wp-image-6366 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/06\/solid-edge-logo_blue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"134\" \/><BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/st4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solid Edge ST4<\/A> is here!<BR \/><BR \/>It&#8217;s been a short eight months since the last release&#8230;.and I&#8217;ve heard a lot of people question &#8220;why the short release cycle?&#8221;There is always a reason for what we do (because we have some pretty smart folks) and the team decided it was best to move to an annual release schedule. That resulted in a short couple months between&nbsp;ST3 and ST4 but it doesn&#8217;t mean Solid Edge is short on functionality. In fact, I was speaking to our Drafting planning manager, Ricky Black, earlier this week who told me we completed over 1,000 customer requests in Draft alone (Great job team!). That&#8217;s a whole lot of work in a short time to give our customers a great product.<BR \/><BR \/>I will let the head of Solid Edge Development, Dan Staples, show you the highlights of what&#8217;s new in Solid Edge ST4.<BR \/><\/P><DIV style=\"width: 425px\"><STRONG><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GE3w_V6Io7Q&amp;hd=1\"><\/IFRAME><\/STRONG><\/DIV><BR \/><!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>Demos, a what&#8217;s new document and other information can be found on the Solid Edge ST4 website <A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/st4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.siemens.com\/plm\/st4<\/A><BR \/><BR \/>I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention we announced two other tremendous initiatives today. My esteemed colleague&nbsp;Mark Burhop has written several posts about his new role in what we&#8217;re calling our partner ecosystem. You can read the official press release about how we&#8217;re extending Solid Edge (and Femap) via Partners and Apps. Mark will be blogging more about it this week while we are at the Solid Edge ST4 event.  <A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/solidedgeapps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.siemens.com\/plm\/solidedgeapps<\/A><BR \/><BR \/>I would like to officially introduce you to Mike Brown (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mjb258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@mjb258<\/A>) who is leading our (re)newed focus on the Solid Edge Academic program. Mike is giving a presentation this Thursday at the Solid Edge ST4 Event and I will cover his presentation here on the blog&#8230; so more to come. For now, you can read the official press release and explore the website for more information <A href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/solidedgeacademic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.siemens.com\/plm\/solidedgeacademic<\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Keep checking the blog this week for more from me, Mark and the team&#8230;and of course here&#8217;s a look at all the ways to get more info:<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-6371 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/solid-edge-st4-has-arrived\/solidedgesm\/\"><IMG class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6371\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/06\/SolidEdgeSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"288\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solid Edge ST4 is here!    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