Solid Edge

Solid Edge is a portfolio suite of software tools that advance all aspects of the product development process – mechanical and electrical design, simulation, manufacturing, technical documentation, data management, and cloud collaboration. Developed by Siemens, Solid Edge provides an innovative and comprehensive approach to product development.

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Introducing Solid Edge 2025 

October 23, 2024

Solid Edge 2025: Innovate without limits     Now available, Solid Edge 2025 brings exciting updates, including Solid Edge X, Solid Edge…

By Kyzmen Wood
5 MIN READ

Overcoming modern design and manufacturing challenges with solution integration

May 31, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape, the pressures on design and manufacturing teams have never been greater. Companies are tasked…

By Kyzmen Wood
5 MIN READ
G2 Awards- Solid Edge

Solid Edge earns the #1 spot on G2’s 2024 Best Software Awards for CAD/PLM Products

February 13, 2024

The best award, for the best product Our Solid Edge Community has accomplished a new feat! We’re so excited to…

By Kyzmen Wood
2 MIN READ

Latest posts

Making a Block Suitable for Schematics

November 1, 2013

Solid Edge installs with a lot of blocks that you can use for annotations and schematics, but the need may come up where you need something that isn’t supplied.  You have to make your own. It is…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Bill McClure and Dan Staples in New Positions

October 30, 2013

Mainstream Engineering, which includes Solid Edge, Femap, and CAM Express, has seen a shuffle at the top. Bill McClure has been the leader of this segment, but is now moving on to VP of Special Proje…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Schematic Diagrams in Solid Edge

October 28, 2013

Schematic diagrams are one of the purely 2D functions that make Solid Edge such a full-featured CAD program. There are a lot of people who use one program for 3D and another one for 2D. With Solid Ed…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Where 2D is Not an Afterthought

October 25, 2013

Ok, we’re finally going to get to talk about drawings, or “draft” as you all say in this neck of the woods. For those of you who don’t use Synchronous, and I know that’s a fair number, you get a litt…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solution Manager: Up Close and Personal

October 23, 2013

Last week, right at the buzzer (4:45 pm on Friday), Chris Dayton, the man at the levers behind the curtains of Live Rules, agreed to talk to me and answer my questions. Special thanks to Chris for hi…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Live Rules and the Solution Manager

October 20, 2013

In the last article you got a good primer for how some of the simple functions of Live Rules work. I made a mistake and corrected it where I was talking about the colors of the squares on the Live Ru…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Synchronous Technology and Live Rules

October 17, 2013

Solid Edge provides no end of potential topics for blog articles. Finding a topic I like is not a difficulty. Narrowing it down to just one idea is probably the hardest part. The next hardest part is…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Assemblies

October 16, 2013

When you work on a Solid Edge assembly, you can move parts that are under constrained. So if a rotational degree of freedom is left  undefined, you can rotate that part while all of the other ma…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Parts

October 14, 2013

The documentation group for just about any software rarely gets good news in public, but there are a couple of things I want to point out before moving forward with the rest of this article. The firs…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ