Any news from PLM World for SE V19?

[zissou]

Does anyone have any good info on V19?

 

[swertel]

Nothing.

The reason is that PLM World was not the roll-out of v19; it was just a preview venue because of timing. The official v19 roll-out is mid-June, I believe, and the full set of press releases will happen then.

I did hear that v19 is heavy in sheet metal enhancements, though. Sheet metal was the main focus, animation was the second, and new assembly constraints to aid in animation.

--Scott

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[toffeet]

Go to the following link and download the UGS velocity presentions. V19 looks very, very impressive.

http://www.plmworld-files.com/downloads/not_on_cd.php

 

[zissou]

toffeet; thanks for the link. Lots of good PPTs in there. Good stuff for anyone using SE to review.

 

[toffeet]

It's a pleasure. New SE releases is somewhat of a yearly highlight for me. I think that SE is one of the most underrated MCAD on the market.

I started with V12, almost 4 years ago. Their is one feature that did not receive any attention until now and that is the Exploded View. I am glad to see that they have made some big changes to it.

 

[zissou]

I just transitioned to SE from SolidWorks. I actually was hired on before I even saw the UI for SE. Of course, getting started is a pretty quick process - so the initial change was easy and a little exciting.

To be honest, every day I find something about SE that just impressed the hell out of me. I agree that it is a very underated MCAD. I'm not sure why, but I can honestly tell you that people I run into get sick of me telling them how good it is.

The folks at UGS have done very well with this.

 

[toffeet]

I think that it got mostly to do with marketing. While the big guys (Inventor & Solidworks) fight it out, people tend to forget about the smaller guys. A big misconception is that only big companies can create good products.

Smaller development teams can be more productive and responsive to customer needs. As I look back at the improvements made to SE (V12 to V19) I honestly believe that the small guys can also create good products, if not beter.

 

[J-C]

zissou..I wouldn't credit UGS too much...if anything...they've held SE back in lieu of pushing UG.

SE was and is a great 3d modeler that was neck and neck with Solidworks in the late 90's. Dassault bought Solidworks and let them run almost as a separate company while UGS bought Solidedge and seem to stifle the product's sales....though not it's capabilities.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[toffeet]

There is a PDF-file on this page that can be downloaded.

http://www.solidedge.com/overview/v19.main.htm

Solid Edge V18 SP5 on WinXP SP2