Founder(s): Siemens PLM Softwares
Founded: Oct 1973
Type
Of Software: CAD
Use: R&D
Nature
Of Business: Commercial
Headquarters: Granite Parkway, Plano, TX, U.S.
Area
Served: Worldwide
Industry
Type: Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics
Website: http://www.siemens.com/solidedge
Solid Edge is a 3D CAD, parametric feature (history based) and
synchronous technology solid modeling software. It runs on Microsoft Windows and provides solid modeling, assembly modelling and 2D orthographic view functionality for mechanical designers. Through third
party applications it has links to many other Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies.
Originally developed and released by Intergraph in
1996 using the ACIS geometric modeling kernel it later
changed to using the Parasolid kernel. In 1998 it was purchased and further
developed by UGS Corp (the purchase date corresponds to the kernel
swap). In 2007, UGS was acquired by the Automation & Drives Division of Siemens AG.
UGS company was renamed Siemens PLM Software on October 1, 2007.
Since September 2006, Siemens has also offered a free 2D version called Solid
Edge 2D Drafting.
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