{"id":10601,"date":"2019-10-25T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/?p=10601"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:32:04","slug":"transform-product-development-with-solid-edge-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/transform-product-development-with-solid-edge-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform Product Development with Solid Edge 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the recent release of Solid Edge 2020<\/a>, Siemens Digital Industries Software continues to improve its cutting-edge product development platform to enable a wide range of users\u2013design engineers, hobbyists, students, and companies of all sizes\u2013to embrace the future of product development. As noted<\/a> by industry analyst DEVELOP3D, \u201cthe 2020 release of Siemens\u2019 mainstream 3D CAD tool enhances and improves a wide range of its capabilities. Some of the new functionality may even leave users wondering why other vendors don\u2019t offer them as standard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Complete Product Development Portfolio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Solid Edge 2020 comes with a wide range of new features. New features such as augmented reality<\/a>, expanded validation tools<\/a>, model-based definition<\/a> and 2D nesting<\/a> \u2013 combined with extensive enhancements to core CAD capabilities \u2013 enable enhanced collaboration and the ability to completely digitalize the design-to-manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solid Edge allows you to accelerate your design process ten-fold with massive productivity gains in core areas of our CAD solution, such as large assembly modeling<\/a>, sheet metal design<\/a>, and data migration<\/a>. Our solutions solutions integrate next-generation technologies to create digital representations of your designs, making it quicker and easier to capture a digital twin of the physical product. Furthermore, Solid Edge allows users to validate digital designs in a physical environment, leveraging new, photo-realistic design visualization capabilities<\/a> so you can truly bring ideas to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The 2020 release of Siemens\u2019 mainstream 3D CAD tool enhances and improves a wide range of its capabilities. Some of the new functionality may even leave users wondering why other vendors don\u2019t offer them as standard.”<\/p>Al Dean, Editor-in-Chief, DEVELOP3D<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s not all. We\u2019ve only covered so far the updates made to the core of Solid Edge as part of the 2020 release, but there\u2019s a whole lot more. Solid Edge continues to drive unparalleled design productivity and engineering creativity with new additions to its simulation tools<\/a> (fluid flow simulation, in particular), manufacturing<\/a>, technical publishing<\/a>, and PCB\/electrical-related add-ons<\/a>. Other capabilities in the latest release include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n