Solid Edge gives you world-class capabilities to design and build realistic 3D solid models representing the form of your parts. Solid Edge also allows you to create assemblies of the 3D solid parts in order to allow you to clearly understand whether the parts will properly together as an assembly. What Solid Edge will not do is provide you with the ability to know if your design will actually meet it’s intended (and sometimes unintended) performance criteria? To determine if a design will perform as expected, the physical assembly is produced and a series of costly lab or field tests are done. This testing usually produces several design changes and the process continues until all production performance criteria are met. The problem with this is that design validation is done too late in the process.
 

Don’t Wait to Validate!

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Now a cornerstone of the UGS’ Velocity series offering, Solid Edge’s profile within the market has gained a huge boost over the course of the past nine months since the last release. So, what does version 19 bring to the table for the mainstream modeling system?

The Transition from 2D
If you take a look at the typical Solid Edge user, they’re most likely to have come from a 2D background and, aside from those ME10 users out

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Production proven 2D.
Edit and maintain multiple CAD formats.
No more forced upgrades.Standardize and save money.

Did we mention its FREE?

Solid Edge 2D drafting demonstrates UGS’ commitment to helping companies control costs. Whether you are using 2D company-wide or for specific 2D design processes, you will benefit from Solid Edge 2D Drafting. Solid Edge 2D Drafting capitalizes on 10 years of production-proven capabilities developed for Solid Edge, and offers excellent drawing layout, diagramming, annotation and dimensioning controls that automatically comply with a wide range of drafting standards – including ISO, ANSI, BSI, DIN, JIS and UNI. And it is absolutely FREE to download and use.

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You can get a free 30-day evaluation copy of Solid Edge software.

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/velocity/solidedge/free_trial/free_trial.shtml

Free Trial Offer

Qualify to Receive Your FREE 30 Day Trial and Discover the Productivity Advantages of Solid Edge. 

Step One:

Register to Qualify for the Eval DVD
After receiving your DVD, go to Step Two

Step Two:

Obtain your Evaluation License Key
If you already have a DVD skip Step One.

NOTE: This Solid Edge Evaluation web application requires Microsoft Internet Explorer browser version 6. Netscape and other browsers may not function properly. If you need assistance, please call 800-807-2200 to qualify for your Solid Edge FREE 30 Day Trial.

Solid Edge will run on any graphic card that supports Windows 2000® or Windows XP®. Contact your card manufacturer to determine whether their graphics adapter or driver supports these operating systems.The list of graphic cards and associated drivers provided were specifically tested at the request of the card manufacturer. These cards were run through a series of standard display tests. This list should not be interpreted as the only cards on which Solid Edge will successfully run.
 

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Product Overview

Sigmund ABA for Solid Edge is an assembly build analysis tool that, for parts and assemblies defined in Solid Edge, allows engineers to evaluate the 3-D effects of component tolerances on the quality of manufactured products. Sigmund provides engineers with an easy to use Solid Edge-Sigmund interface to evaluate the capability of their Solid Edge designs, ensuring that assemblies go together 100 percent of the

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Working in the sketch / 2D environment of Solid Edge you can set the ‘snap’ of the cursor when clicking a line. For example an endpoint or a midpoint. The point you will snap to is show next to the cursor.

The points the cursor is sensitive to can be set with the IntelliSketch options. (Tools/IntelliSketch…)

Sometimes the intelligence of IntelliSketch is not handy at all. Fortunately you can suppress all IntelliSketch options together by pressing ALT while sketching. Upon releasing the ALT key IntelliSketch will be reactivated.
Remark: it is possible that after releasing the ALT key the screen does not refresh itself. Just press ALT shortly again to resume sketching.
source: http://www.solid-tools.com

How to save it?

SAVEALL (AutoCAD Express Tool)

This command will attempt to save all open drawings (without having to flip through each one), leaving the drawings open for continued editing. If a drawing has not yet been named, you’re prompted for a file name.

CLOSEALL (just plain ol’ AutoCAD)

All open drawings are closed. A message box is displayed for each unsaved drawing, in which you can save or discard any changes to the drawing before closing it.

QSAVE

Quick Save of the current drawing without prompting for file name, unless the current drawing has no name in which case the SAVEAS dialog is displayed. This is the command that’s run when you select SAVE from the File pull down.

SAVEAS

Save the current drawing to another name and change to that drawing.

SAVE

Displays the SAVEAS dialog. Save the drawing as the current name or save as a copy under another name. AutoCAD stays in the current drawing. This command is only available from the keyboard.

There’s only a slight variation between SAVE and SAVEAS. Did you spot it?

Prior to use of Solid Edge software the system requirements (hardware/OS) has bin announced.

The following details are the recommended requirements from official Solid Edge website.

The most recent release of Solid Edge has been certified to run on the following:

• Windows XP Professional® operating system (32 bit or 64 bit)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Solid Edge requires these versions

(or later) to install due to system files delivered with these versions that Solid Edge relies on for proper operation.
Solid Edge stops certifying new releases against an operating system shortly after Microsoft drops mainstream support for it. Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 are unsupported operating systems. Solid Edge will not install on these operating systems. It is not recommended that you run Solid Edge on Server operating systems.
Solid Edge will not install on machines without Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. Internet Explorer is not required to be the default browser.
Solid Edge is not supported on Intel Itanium processors.

Hardware System Requirements
Recommended System Configuration:
Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processor
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
1 GB or more RAM
True Color (32-bit) or 16 million colors (24-bit)
Screen resolution of 1280×1024

Minimum System Configuration:
Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon, or AMD Opteron
Windows XP Professional
512 MB RAM
65K colors
Minimum Resolution: 1024×768
Disk space required for installation: 1.3 GB
The 64-bit version of Solid Edge requires Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition with Intel EM64T or AMD64 processors. Beginning with Solid Edge Version 19, we deliver the product on a single DVD. For more details on this corporate-wide direction, please refer to http://support.ugs.com/DVD/.
Display System Requirements and Information
Solid Edge will run on any graphics driver that supports Windows XP. Contact your graphics driver manufacturer to determine whether their graphics adapter/driver supports this operating system.
For optimal performance, it is recommended to use a professional graphics card that is designed for CAD applications. For information about cards used in testing Solid Edge and results, refer to http://www.solidedge.com/graphics/default.htm.
Note that running with extremely high screen resolution and color depth increases the memory requirements on the system and may result in apparent performance degradation. If experienced, reconfigure the display system to the recommended resolution and color depth for improved performance.
When running Solid Edge, if you experience an abnormally high abort rate, parts disappearing, or other graphic anomalies you may not be using the appropriate graphics driver.
For more details, visit http://www.solidedge.com/graphics/driver.testing.htm

source: http://www.solidedge.com

New design methods are required in order to head off a growing complexity crisis in product design and engineering. A recent survey identified product and process complexity as the most important issue for designers and engineers, well ahead of time to market and cost pressures.
Driven by markets that demand ever-increasing product value and functionality, manufacturers have embarked on continuous product improvement, delivering more features, more innovation and better looking products. In the fight to control markets and maintain market share the leading manufacturers increase the size of their product ranges, offer more options and release new and better products more frequently, incorporating new technology, more automation and better value for money at an accelerating rate. Coping with the resulting design complexity while maintaining time to market and profitability is the latest challenge to hit the engineering industry.

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