history of SE 1

[65Roses]

When did SE first come onto the market? Was the company called SE or was it just a brand name to some company. I read once that UGS bought SE in 1998 from Intergraph. The story I heard some years back (mid 90's) was the software was developed by engineers who came together to form their own company in the early 90's. I was also wondering who was first to the market SE or SW?

 

[looslib]

SolidEdge was developed by Intergraph and was at rev 5 using the ACIS kernel when UGSolutions bought the MCAD portion of Intergraph, including EMS. Rev 6 and newer of SE uses the UG Parasolid kernel.

SolidWorks was developed by a private company and sold to Dassault in June 1997, after they had a good market share.

SolidWorks was first to market with a Windows MFC class CAD package in Nov 1995. SolidEdge came out in June 1996.


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Ben Loosli
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Ingersoll-Rand

 

[Kenny_G]

Actually, Solid Edge converted to Parasolid at Rev 5, and then later sold to UGS. The conversion to Parasolid had nothing to do with the sale as it had been planned well before the sale had been discussed. The conversion to Parasolid was an attempt to use a more robust modeling kernel since there were many shortcoming with the ACIS kernel.

Ken