Drawings are the final deliverable for many engineering processes—they represent a contract between design and manufacturing, which means that accuracy is critical. But as product designs and assemblies become more complex, and with a host of global drawing standards to consider, creating, annotating, and updating drawings can be a challenge. With Solid Edge, drawing layout, detailing, annotation, and dimensioning controls automatically comply with the mechanical drafting standard you select.

3D design enables faster time to market while reducing engineering costs. Solid Edge 3D design is distinguished by its ability to provide superior part and assembly modeling, flexible drafting, best-in-class sheet metal capabilities, and industry-leading visualization. These attributes enable Solid Edge to deliver a fast and flexible design experience while easing the challenges inherent in product development. With synchronous technology to help you accelerate product design, make revisions faster, and improve design data re-use, Solid Edge lets you design at the speed of creative thought.

Solid Edge streamlines the entire sheet metal product development process, from CAD design through flat pattern and drawing development, to meet unique sheet metal design challenges like manufacturability.

Industrial design is used to create product value. Designs that are visually appealing, while also being functional and manufacturable, give companies a competitive advantage. Solid Edge includes advanced shape creation and manipulation capabilities that aid in the conceptualization of unique products, letting your products stand out in a crowded market.

As designs become more complex, the number of parts in an assembly often grows. Solid Edge helps you quickly and easily create and manage even the largest assemblies, without lags or crashes. Create exact representations of all components—including tubes, pipes, wires, weldments, and sheet metal—in a complete digital mockup that allows for more accurate design and analysis. Solid Edge helps you quickly detect and fix clash and interference issues, generate assembly instructions, and conduct customer reviews—reducing the need for costly prototypes.

Solid Edge Model Based Definition enables the production of a complete digital definition of parts and/or assemblies using a 3D model, moving users to a fully digitalized manufacturing and design environment. Annotated 3D models are far easier to understand than complex drawings, which reduces time spent on engineering documentation and drives downstream validation and manufacturing efforts. This can result in a paperless design office that provides less amendment work, faster time to manufacturing, quicker documentation, and clearer manufacturing communication.

From rudimentary 2D pipe planning to full-scale 3D piping systems, Solid Edge modular plant design solutions streamline workflow processes. Linked 3D piping, support for piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), and Isogen® output ensure that your products are designed right—the first time, and every time. These software modules allow users to easily capture design intent/logic in a 2D schematic, then develop 2D P&IDs into a comprehensive 3D model of a process plant.

Solid Edge helps you overcome electromechanical design challenges with a dedicated solution for electrical design—enabling true co-design collaboration across electrical and mechanical domains. Based on industry-leading technology, our electrical design products are trusted and proven around the world.

The industry’s most powerful PCB layout technology combines ease of use with highly automated functionality to give engineers exceptional control over designs. Groundbreaking sketch router technology combines routing power with user control during interactive editing operations, producing high-quality results with exceptional performance.

Using the industry standard Simcenter Nastran solver, Solid Edge Simulation delivers structural simulation results, such as identifying deformation, stress and strain, etc. caused by a static loading, finding the natural frequencies of vibration, or determining buckling loads of a design. Steady and transient heat transfer analysis validates cooling performance by evaluating the temperature distribution of the model. In addition, the coupled thermal and structural analysis can be applied to determine thermal effects to the structural stress/strain.

Fully embedded in Solid Edge, Simcenter FLOEFD for Solid Edge extends the power of CAD environments to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, optimizing product performance and reliability for fluid flow, heat transfer and electromagnetic effects. A fast, flexible, and accurate solution for modeling thermo-fluid systems, Simcenter Flomaster for Solid Edge automatically creates a model based on CAD data, aiding in the computation and visualization of flow velocity, temperature, and pressure drop in pipe works in a 1D environment.

Solid Edge allows you to take full advantage of additive manufacturing, whether you are creating individual prototypes or manufacturing larger volumes of components. Our tools support your end-to-end workflow, from design-for-manufacture using additive techniques, to preparing and outputting your designs to 3D printing hardware and services.

Avoid the need for, and the cost of, multiple CAM systems in the machine shop with Solid Edge CAM Pro. This scalable solution offers a wide range of in-depth NC programming capabilities, providing flexibility and maximizing the value of your investment. In addition to the 2.5-axis milling capabilities included with Solid Edge Classic, Foundation, and Premium active maintenance contracts, CAM Pro is available in 2.5-axis, 3-axis, and 5-axis bundles. These configurations, along with numerous add-on functionalities, allow you to customize a right-sized solution to meet your individual manufacturing needs.

The ability to clearly communicate the correct manufacturing, installation, and maintenance procedures for your designs is essential to the performance of your products and the success of your business. Using Solid Edge technical publications solutions, designers can quickly create many types of technical documents—from simple illustrations for end-user manuals to interactive 3D technical documents for manufacturing and service. You can reduce the need for specialist technical authors or external services and produce top-quality documents in-house.

Scalable CAD data management solutions meet the needs of all manufacturers, from startups and very small firms to larger manufacturers with distributed operations. Data management in Solid Edge shares product information and collaborates with downstream functions such as manufacturing to improve quality and reduce costly errors.

Instantly, securely, and easily collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers with Siemens’ next-generation, cloud-based collaboration solution, Xcelerator Share. Xcelerator Share and Solid Edge offer a wide range of collaboration features. Xcelerator Share’s rich set of capabilities addresses your cloud collaboration needs, from providing your team with secure, central storage with optional data management tools, to enabling ad hoc collaboration with external stakeholders thanks to easy email address-based sharing.