Solid Edge delivers tools and workflows that offer specific solutions to the challenges of machinery design. Tailored environments, specific to processes at hand, reduce development costs by eliminating errors to assure designs are right the first time. With optimized drawing production and manufacturing considerations built directly into each process, you engineer and build complex machines in less time.

Sheet metal
Solid Edge’s sheet metal environment uses standard sheet metal and fabrication terminology, with streamlined modeling commands for tabs, flanges, louvers, dimples, cutouts, mitered corners, corner breaks and other sheet metal-specific part features. With automated placement of bend relief, bend allowance calculations and punch- and laser-ready flat pattern development, Solid Edge delivers the most advanced sheet metal CAD package available.

Weldments
The weldment environment assists in defining the constituent parts of weldments, as well as weld beads, pre-weld surface treatments and machining operations after the welds are applied. Solid Edge drafting documents the entire weldment manufacturing process, with component drawings as well as pre-weld and post-machining views. Weldment designs can be placed and manipulated as single components in machinery models.

Wiring and tubing
Solid Edge XpresRoute is an integrated add-on package that rapidly routes and models wires, cables and rigid or flexible tubing for hydraulic or pneumatic systems. Tubing and wiring components are dynamically associative to the components they connect, so that they automatically adjust when changes are made to a machine’s related part.

Standard Parts
Solid Edge Standard Parts is a powerful parts management system that allows your designers to define, store, select and position commonly used parts – like fasteners, bearings and structural steel members – quickly and efficiently, enabling rapid and precise completion of machinery designs. With Solid Edge Standard Parts, you can establish and share company standards, so your designers can concentrate on designing machinery and not on redundant modeling tasks. In addition to the baseline of components delivered with Solid Edge, an extensive machinery parts library is available as an optional add-on package.