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

Solid Edge ST7 AddIn EdgeBar in C++

December 15, 2014

  In continuation of my  Solid Edge ST7 AddIn Architecture Overviewand  Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++articles, I just published a new article, Solid Edge ST7 AddIn E…

By jnewell
< 1 MIN READ

Interpolation is the Name of the Game

December 10, 2014

My method of explaining the rather wide reaching topic of surfacing is to start from concepts, move on to how to use specific tools, and what the tools do, and then to talk about why or in what situa…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

It’s all about Curvature, and Curvature is all about Splines/Curves

December 9, 2014

If you are an engineer reproducing Industrial Designer stuff, one of the first things you have to do is understand curvature. It’s a different language, and a different way of thinking about geometry…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Translating from Designer to Engineer

December 8, 2014

In the same way that it’s unfair to say “engineers aren’t creative”, it’s probably also unfair to try to lump all Industrial Designers into the same mold. I’ve worked with ID folks who could not do 3…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Offset Face Relate Enhancements – by Steve Sheldon

December 4, 2014

 
In ST7 we have introduced numerous enhancements to the Offset Face Relate command.

Offset to faces with parallel normals
Prior to ST7, you could only establish an Offset Face…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Engineers and Creativity

December 2, 2014

I had the misfortune a few years back to hear a colleague proclaim at a dinner with about 15 design process professionals in attendance that engineers were not creative people. I can be hot tempered …

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++

December 1, 2014

  In continuation of my Solid Edge ST7 AddIn Architecture Overview article, I just published a new article, Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++. This article is programming language spec…

By jnewell
< 1 MIN READ

Interview with Hungarian Reseller, Imre Szucs

November 25, 2014

Imre Szucs is known by many names around the Solid Edge universe, but everyone knows him as an inexhaustable fountain of ideas and knowledge. I’ve met him at a couple of Solid Edge Universities, and …

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Simulation, Analysis and Decisions

November 24, 2014

While we’re on the topic of abstraction from my previous post, let’s carry it further to simulation. About 15 years ago or so if I’m remembering correctly, we had a movement called the “Up Front” mov…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ