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

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

Solid Edge has a very useful application called "Motion" which allows a user to simulate the movement of mechanical parts. This enables the machine designers to test and make sure that the movement of their mechanism is the same as they expect before manufacturing parts. This helps save a lot of money.

However, instead of using "Motion" application, I would like to show you how to simulate the motion of mechanical parts using a

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Decin, Czech Republic, 20.09.2005

MITCalc engineering calculations have been extended with a new module and connected to the Solid Edge CAD system.

MITCalc for Solid Edge
It is a standalone installation. In addition to “MITCalc” calculations, it includes the appropriate parametric models and an interface between Excel and the Solid Edge CAD system (ver. 15, 16, 17). In addition to individual parts, the link of MITCalc for Solid Edge and the Solid Edge CAD system makes it possible to also input groups of parts (subassembly) into assembly. For example, it is possible to input a complete belt gear solution at once; it is fully associative and the dimensions of the inserted part (subassembly) change according to the changes in calculation parameters.

Pinned Couplings (Extension Pack EP05)
The calculation is intended for the geometric design and strength check of couplings using pins and clevis pins. The program is used to solve the following tasks: design of pin for spring attachment, design of couplings with securing pins, design of cross pin in rod and sleeve, design of radial pin for shaft-hub connection, design of longitudinal pin for shaft-hub connection, design of clevis pin for rotating rod-clevis connection, strength check of designed couplings. The program includes dimensional tables for pins and clevis pins according to ANSI, ISO, DIN, BS, JIS and CSN and support of 2D CAD systems.

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