What do you like best about the product?

It is incredibly easy to use, even for beginners in AI. I particularly enjoy the clean and intuitive interface, which makes navigating and experimenting with AI tools a seamless experience. The platform is responsive, user-friendly, and designed to help users get results quickly without any steep learning curve. The support and resources available are excellent, and it’s clear that the team behind it values user experience. Overall, it’s a powerful tool that combines functionality with simplicity—highly recommended for anyone exploring AI.

What do you dislike about the product?

One notable challenge is the learning curve for beginners. The sheer number of options and capabilities can feel overwhelming to new users, making it difficult to quickly become proficient. Additionally, the interface, while robust, can sometimes appear cluttered, especially when navigating between assemblies, parts, and templates. This can reduce overall intuitiveness and make certain tasks more time-consuming than necessary.

Another limitation is its performance with large or complex assemblies. Handling sizable projects can occasionally lead to slower response times, which may impact productivity. Moreover, cross-version compatibility remains a concern. Importing designs from older versions of Solid Edge or from other CAD software can sometimes result in minor glitches or loss of metadata, creating additional work for designers. Finally, while Solid Edge provides documentation and help resources, certain advanced features in DesignCenter are not always thoroughly explained, leaving users to rely on trial and error to understand them fully.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

One major problem it addresses is the difficulty of reusing and organizing design elements. Without a centralized system, designers can spend significant time searching for parts, assemblies, or templates, leading to inefficiencies and inconsistent designs. DesignCenter provides a structured library of resources that can be easily browsed, searched, and reused, ensuring that designers have quick access to the components they need.

Another problem it tackles is maintaining consistency across projects. By enabling users to store and reuse standardized parts and templates, DesignCenter helps reduce errors and ensures that design practices remain uniform across teams. It also simplifies collaboration, as shared libraries make it easier for multiple users to work on a project without duplicating work or creating version conflicts.

For me, the benefits of DesignCenter are clear. It saves time by allowing me to quickly locate and insert parts or assemblies, reduces mistakes by promoting standardization, and improves overall workflow efficiency. Rather than spending hours recreating components, I can focus on innovation and problem-solving, making my design process more productive and less stressful.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like most about Siemens Solid Edge is how efficiently it supports both parametric and direct modelling through its synchronous technology. It makes quick design changes much easier, because I don’t have to go back and rebuild the entire model each time. That’s especially helpful during iterative design work, when adjustments come up frequently.

What do you dislike about the product?

One drawback of using Siemens Solid Edge is that the user interface can feel a bit dated compared to more modern CAD platforms, which sometimes makes navigation less intuitive, especially for new users. I’ve also noticed that certain advanced features have a steeper learning curve, particularly when working with complex assemblies or with tools that aren’t used as often. Additionally, performance can occasionally slow down when handling larger assemblies, which can disrupt the workflow and break momentum.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the biggest benefits is how quickly I can implement design changes, especially during iterative development. Rather than rebuilding models from scratch, I’m able to adjust existing geometry and immediately see how those updates affect the overall design, which ends up saving a significant amount of time.

What do you like best about the product?

We use Siemens Solid Edge as the backbone of our product and factory development lifecycle, from concept through to commissioning. All machinery layouts, custom equipment designs, and factory expansion models are developed in Solid Edge, allowing us to rapidly iterate designs, validate fit within real-world constraints, and maintain a single, accurate digital representation of our production environment.

By integrating Simcenter FLOEFD directly within Solid Edge, we move beyond traditional CAD into simulation-driven design. We actively simulate airflow, temperature distribution, and humidity behaviour across our processing and packaging environments—critical for drying performance, product consistency, and hygiene compliance. This enables us to identify issues such as condensation risk, airflow inefficiencies, and thermal inconsistencies before physical implementation.

The value this delivers is substantial:

Reduced risk: Problems are identified and solved digitally before capital is committed or equipment is installed.
Faster decision-making: Design iterations that would take weeks physically are completed in hours.
Optimised performance: Equipment and facility layouts are engineered for real operating conditions, not assumptions.
Cost efficiency: Minimises rework, avoids overdesign, and improves ROI on major capital investments.
Scalable digital foundation: As we expand, our full factory exists as a validated digital twin, supporting future automation, upgrades, and process optimisation.

In short, Solid Edge combined with FLOEFD allows us to design smarter, de-risk faster, and execute expansion projects with a level of confidence and precision that would not be achievable with CAD alone.

The UI has been greatly improved in its feel and operation. Making it more modern and user friendly. Really happy about the dark mode addition as well.

In overall the performance has improved on the operation of the software. Enjoying the performance mode it has to offer.

Pricing is ok but feel like better options and bundles should be created to allow for adding more employees easier.

The Siemens Academy use to be the go to but needs more work done, cannot wait for the revamp to be completed. There are tons of resources online that are helpful when required.

New AI features are really helpful for speeding up daily use!
Keep adding more please!

What do you dislike about the product?

It really is a one of a kind Digital creation software that can be used in all industries globally. Its hard to dislike since it is so versatile and adaptable. But if I had to choose something, maybe not utilizing enough multi core threading would be one.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to create anything I can think of, like my imagination would be the limitation and not the software. Thinking outside the box is needed for my career and I know that Solid Edge is standing ready to make it a reality!

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use for viewing and editing drawing and part files. It really helps to have a visual drawing and model to check the design process and understand how it will work in a real-life environment.

What do you dislike about the product?

For some users, it can feel a bit overwhelming to use at first, so it’s best to start with small steps and ease into it gradually. need a lot of computing power

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solid Edge has helped me design and assemble the actual model, and simulate the parts to see how they will fit on the actual finished product and in the environment.

What do you like best about the product?

To be honest it is what I have used and I am just used to it nothing I like more or less compared to other programs. I like the fact that is easier to use when you have a large assembly but not much more on that.

What do you dislike about the product?

It was a hell of a ride to learn how to use it and didn’t have many tutorials (my bad), interface is a bit old I believe but not much more than that! I don’t really mind it as it is

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The fact that develope products faster! You can combine models and it is easier to change the designs this way.how benefited me? Well saved me tons of time in metal designing

What do you like best about the product?

The strongest aspect of Solid Edge Designcenter is its intuitive file browsing and quick search, which make it easy to find and reuse existing CAD files even in large project folders. The visual previews let engineers identify parts and assemblies at a glance without opening them in Solid Edge, which saves time during the design process. It also helps streamline workflows by providing fast access to CAD models that can then be used in downstream tools such as Simcenter STAR-CCM+, making the handoff from design to simulation more efficient.

What do you dislike about the product?

One limitation of Solid Edge Designcenter is that its data management capabilities can feel somewhat basic when compared with full PDM solutions. While it works well for browsing and locating CAD files within Solid Edge, it doesn’t offer more advanced functions like robust version control, collaboration workflows, or lifecycle management. On larger projects with many users and frequent revisions, this can make it harder to keep files organized and to track changes consistently. Performance can also depend heavily on how well the project folder structure is set up and maintained, so a less organized structure may make things feel slower or more difficult to navigate.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Designcenter Solid Edge streamlines the product development process by bringing 3D CAD modeling, assembly design, and 2D drawing creation together in one environment. It lets engineers create and revise parts quickly using synchronous and parametric modeling, while also automatically generating manufacturing drawings and related documentation. As a result, design iterations take less time, and overall efficiency improves when working on complex mechanical components and assemblies.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like the general ease of use of Designcenter Solid Edge, which makes my work smoother. Also, I value its good analysis abilities, which enhance my design process.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing in particular

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Designcenter Solid Edge for 3D product design, finding it easy to use with good analysis abilities.

What do you like best about the product?

I like using Designcenter Solid Edge to design some individual parts. I find it faster than doing small tasks myself. I enjoy the tools, specifically Sheet Metal and Part Modeling, which are really beneficial.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think the sheet metal flange trimming could be improved to be smarter. I'd like to see a reduction in the number of clicks required to use it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Designcenter Solid Edge speeds up small tasks faster than I can do them myself, improving efficiency over our previous tool, SolidWorks.

What do you like best about the product?

I like best about Designcenter Solid Edge is that it helps turn ideas into workable 3D models and technical drawings without making the process overly complicated. It is useful for product development, concept iteration, and preparing designs for manufacturing.

What do you dislike about the product?

I dislike most is that the overall experience can feel inconsistent depending on the task. Some functions are useful, but the interface and workflow are not always as intuitive as they could be, especially for occasional users or people who are still learning the system.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Designcenter Solid Edge helps solve the problem of turning design ideas into organized digital models that can be reviewed, improved, and prepared for production. It supports product development by making it easier to create parts, assemblies, and technical documentation in one workflow.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Designcenter Solid Edge primarily for mechanical design and product development. I like how fast and flexible the modeling workflow is, especially with the synchronous technology that makes it really easy to edit geometry without rebuilding the whole feature tree, which saves a lot of time when designs change. The assembly management and drawing tools are also great, as it's straightforward to go from a 3D model to a detailed 2D production grade drawing. Updates to the model automatically reflect in the drawing, making design iterations and revisions much smoother.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing that could be improved is performance, it tends to slow down on large assemblies which is a problem when working on large projects with lots of components. Certain features are very intuitive but others such as interference detection is hidden away in menus and require several clicks to access. One final thing is better import compatibility from other CAD systems since imported geometry often needs extra cleanup before it's usable.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Designcenter Solid Edge to quickly turn ideas into manufacturable designs. Its parametric modeling helps me solve design errors and revise dimensions easily. It also offers a fast and flexible workflow, simplifying model edits and making design iterations smoother with automatic updates in drawings.