Solid Edge offers a collection of tools that make it a perfect program for applications such as product development in mechanical and electrical design, manufacturing, simulation, data management, technical documentation, and collaboration via the cloud. For instance, in 1998, UGS Corp purchased it, and in 2007, Siemens AG purchased UGS Corp and subsequently renamed it to Siemens PLM Software, Solid Edge’s current owner.
Additionally, its developers have changed severally. Since then, Solid Edge has grown and now boasts numerous features. The first release was known as Solid Edge 1. Simply put, it supported 2D and 3D drawing, which was revolutionary because none of the existing programs combined both 2D and 3D. The integration of OLE with Jupiter in Solid Edge’s development made it the first CAD program to be used in designing parts, assembling, and drafting applications. Intergraph, which had developed an object-oriented software development framework known as Jupiter Technology in 1995, extended OLE’s functionalities to create design and modeling software. This distinguishing factor resulted from Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) – it updated all linked objects automatically and enabled software programs to integrate copy-paste or drag and drop capabilities. At the time, it was owned, developed, and released by Intergraph, a portmanteau of Interactive graphics, and was oriented towards designing/creating assemblies, unlike other 3D CAD programs in use at the time, which were singularly oriented towards CAD. Solid Edge was initially released in 1995 as a solid modeling software. Nonetheless, despite the change in ownership of the registered trademarks, the two software products are direct competitors to some of the industry’s most popular software, including SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, and Creo, among others. While Siemens PLM Software came into existence in 2007, when UGS Corp, the original developer of Solid Edge, was renamed, Solid Edge and NX were first developed in 19, respectively. Siemens PLM Software owns Solid Edge and NX, which incidentally are both older than the developer. These include Dassault Systemes, which owns CATIA and SolidWorks, and Siemens PLM Software, whose two software products form the basis of this article’s comparison. But other companies have a similar business model as Autodesk’s in that they create and sell different software.
As Scan2CAD, we have compared several Autodesk products in previous posts, e.g., AutoCAD and Fusion 360 and AutoCAD and Inventor. That statement has likely taken your mind to the numerous products under Autodesk, understandably so. The CAD, CAM, and CAE world comprises multiple software products, some of which are created by the same developer.
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