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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Solid Edge holiday savings: How to find the best CAD deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

November 15, 2024

Looking for professional product development software at a cost that fits your budget? Learn how you can get the best of both worlds with a new Solid Edge® 3D CAD subscription this year on Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

By anthonybele
3 MIN READ
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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

Latest posts

The Old and the New

August 6, 2014

In a previous article I wrote about how some aspects of our current ideas about the cloud are actually (in part anyway) resurrections of much older IT methods. It turns out that modern computing is b…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Automation: Parametric Assemblies

August 3, 2014

This article builds on the knowledge gained in the previous post Parametric Parts which discussed how to parametric parts by changing the values of part variables.

It is also possible to a…

By Tushar Suradkar
2 MIN READ

Community: Who Needs It?

August 1, 2014

I’ve been involved in on-line communities for engineers since 1997. The old usenet news groups put the Wild Wild West in the www//:. It was raw, it was unruly, but more than any of that, it was engin…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Is it time to revisit CAD in the Cloud?

July 29, 2014

CAD in the Cloud. It’s a topic I thought I’d never return to. It’s a topic that won’t go away, although the context in which you hear about it these days is changing. I want to look at CAD in the clo…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

CAD Standard for 3D Data

July 28, 2014

CAD standards have come a long way in the last 30 years or so. For 2D data, standards used to be mainly about layers and colors, and font size, and how to set up a drawing so it could be printed prop…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Automation: Part Configurator 3

July 27, 2014

This is the sixth post in the Automation series and the third article for Part Configurator. In retrospect: Take the First Steps to Automation Takeaway: • Getting started • Adding referenc…

By Tushar Suradkar
2 MIN READ

Automation: Part Configurator 2

July 21, 2014

The previous post on creating a programmatically configurable part used a If…Then structure to check which of the items in the list was selected by the user i.e. the SelectedIndex property of …

By Tushar Suradkar
5 MIN READ

Maker Faire, Ali Kermani, and Solid Edge Together

July 18, 2014

If you’re within driving range of Detroit in the next week, you might consider going to the Detroit Maker Faire. It’s held July 26-27 at the Henry Ford museum, which is a destination in itself. You m…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Synchronous Technology and Interoperability

July 16, 2014

Interoperability has been a thorny issue for people who work in multi-CAD environments ever since the second CAD system was developed. CAD users are typically technical people, and we tend to roll ou…

By MLombard
2 MIN READ