--- title: Designcenter Solid Edge Reviews meta_title: 'Designcenter Solid Edge Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 649 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Designcenter Solid Edge works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 649 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-12' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Designcenter Solid Edge Reviews **Vendor:** Siemens Digital Industries Software **Category:** [Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/mechanical-computer-aided-design-mcad) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 649 ## About Designcenter Solid Edge Designcenter Solid Edge is a portfolio of affordable, easy to deploy, maintain, and use software tools that advance all aspects of the product development process – mechanical and electrical design, simulation, manufacturing, technical documentation, data management, and cloud-based collaboration. Developed on Siemens' industry-leading technologies, Designcenter Solid Edge provides the most innovative and comprehensive approach to product development for the mainstream market. ## Designcenter Solid Edge Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **ease of use** of Designcenter Solid Edge, enhancing their design experience with straightforward functionality. (97 reviews) - Users commend Solid Edge for its **Synchronous Technology** , which streamlines geometry changes and boosts productivity. (61 reviews) - Users praise the **Synchronous Technology** in Solid Edge for streamlining geometry changes and enhancing overall efficiency. (61 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency** of Designcenter Solid Edge, experiencing quicker model edits and faster modifications. (57 reviews) - Users value the **design ease** of Designcenter in Solid Edge, streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity on projects. (50 reviews) - Time Saving (45 reviews) - Users find Solid Edge's **intuitive interface** greatly enhances learning and efficiency, streamlining the design process significantly. (41 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface** of Solid Edge, enhancing their design experience and productivity. (41 reviews) - Users appreciate the **design efficiency** of Solid Edge, enjoying a streamlined and user-friendly design experience. (39 reviews) - CAD Integration (36 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **difficult learning curve** with advanced features of Solid Edge challenging, particularly for beginners. (46 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** for advanced features challenging, especially when transitioning from simpler CAD tools. (46 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with Designcenter Solid Edge, especially when handling large assemblies, impacting efficiency. (40 reviews) - Users often find the **slow performance** of Designcenter Solid Edge frustrating, especially with large assemblies and tight deadlines. (39 reviews) - Users find the **interface not user-friendly** , leading to a steep learning curve and a sluggish experience overall. (31 reviews) - Large Assemblies (28 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** challenging, making it harder to efficiently utilize Designcenter Solid Edge. (24 reviews) - High System Requirements (22 reviews) - Not Intuitive (22 reviews) - Interface Design (20 reviews) ## Designcenter Solid Edge Reviews ### 1. Good CAD Tool, but very many random Bugs & slow Teamcenter integration **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernd H. | Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Solid Edge is in general a good tool to create parts and assemblies. Im working since 2003 with this application. We have in general all functionality, to finish our tasks. **What do you dislike about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Really sorry to say this, but in recent years, the problems are getting bigger and bigger. :-( We constantly have random errors every day where functions in Solid Edge don't work as they should. And Solid Edge crashes very often without being able to save. And worst of all: 85% of the tickets we report are closed by Siemens, without being investigated because all the errors appear per random and cannot be reproduced. Since 10 years they tell us: The crashes will be fixed with next version, but its never finished. Solid Edge work stable on few small parts, but risk to crash increase massive when working with large assemblies or with more than 5 parts open. **What problems is Designcenter Solid Edge solving and how is that benefiting you?** n/a ### 2. Story about how can be so greedy but at the same time lag behind competitors by at least 5 years **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Honestly, there is no a single feature that is better than competitors **What do you dislike about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Well well well... Where to start 1.Perhaps the most disgusting thing is working with a library of standard parts. Terrible ancient and incomprehensible interface. And the main thing is the lack of a normal and understandable method for creating your own library with various materials and connections for assembly. Just look at inventor and make an easy and clear interface for adding new collections like there. 2.Family of parts. The one who worked on this feature has no idea what he was thinking about, why the hell do I need to force the generation of the “child part” , that I want to use, in a folder??? I want to have all the configurations in one file, just select the desired option from a table without creating hundreds of models in a folder. Moreover, "child parts" do not inherit the connections that I applied to the original model using "assign capture fit". 3. Section view. You think It is okay when I cut 30 components in assembly and all of them are cutted in one color??? Why in fusion 360 it is as it should be (every part will have its own surface color cut), but you can not do it? 4. Design configurator. Firstly, why on earth did you think that you could sell this module separately while competitors provide a similar function for free? Why is there a bunch of books and hundreds of videos on YouTube for ilogic from inventor, but you have absolutely nothing, well, except for a couple of useless videos on your website. Is it normal that there is no support for drawing configuration? **What problems is Designcenter Solid Edge solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was not my decision to purchase this program. ### 3. Not Practical 3D Cad software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harish J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Data Management, API that's all I like it. **What do you dislike about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Poor UI, lots of bugs, not give confidence in work while using, Complicated commands, still using old technology in some command, lots of good productive features are already provided by competitor companies from last 10 yrs but still SE not provided those features, looks like it is 15 yrs old software and still in every new version it only updated very little, lots of advance features are still missing compare to other softwares, Some commands are high time consuming, Mates are very difficult to edit, delete and again mating is easy compare to edit. I found lots of improvements in SE compare to others CAD software, No VBA, you have to depend on other coding platforms.Smart Dimension are not "Smart". Lots of Maintenance Packs comes in year, that shows software is under development. **What problems is Designcenter Solid Edge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solidedge is good for data management and API is user friendly, in some features it gives lots of customization. ### 4. 20 years using SolidWorks, 3 years using Solid Edge **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cody M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Eventually, you can kind of do what you want. I 8 years it will have features that are now in SolidWorks. **What do you dislike about Designcenter Solid Edge?** Assembly patterns. Assembly exploded views. Multibody design in part files. Top down design. Updating linked parts. **What problems is Designcenter Solid Edge solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can do my work for the most part, it just takes longer than I can do the same thing is SolidWorks. **Official Response from Kyzmen Wood:** > Cody, thank you so much for your honest review of your Solid Edge experience! It saddens us that our platform has been more time consuming for you, below I have attached a tutorial that may be of assistance for your efforts. ### 5. Will I recommend solid edge to a friend ? **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed A. | Industrial Technologist Designer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Designcenter Solid Edge?** The finish coloring and the ability to see the projects part fits and splashed together before printing the pieces **What do you dislike about Designcenter Solid Edge?** SolidEdge is not a quick program to work on or learn fast. It got its complicated command and has no short cuts of using the tools as for example typing command, that doesn’t exist. I really wish that they would develop such typing command to make the task fast and simple for quick projects. Besides it does freez once a while and might lose your work at some point and start alover. **Recommendations to others considering Designcenter Solid Edge:** Do not consider it **What problems is Designcenter Solid Edge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not anything particular, I think they should do a lot of updates to be competing with other software ## Designcenter Solid Edge Discussions - [Is Solidworks or Solid Edge better?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-solidworks-or-solid-edge-better) - 6 comments, 2 upvotes - [What is Solid Edge used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-solid-edge-used-for) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Is there are any way to identify 2 or more identical parts in an assembly .](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-are-any-way-to-identify-2-or-more-identical-parts-in-an-assembly) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to design machine easy ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50166-what-is-the-best-way-to-design-machine-easy) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Simulation & motions analysis. How to Foex motions i.e multiple links motions & Interlock in between](https://www.g2.com/discussions/simulation-motions-analysis-how-to-foex-motions-i-e-multiple-links-motions-interlock-in-between) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Designcenter Solid Edge pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter-solid-edge/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+13%3A54%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=59c2d36d-f005-43db-aea0-d6e46428037b&secure%5Btoken%5D=7a4fda44ddf7c71a43684f6092ea1cc2d37b349c1ea5a588b4e6a38132a146c5&format=llm_user) ## Designcenter Solid Edge Integrations - [Altair HyperWorks](https://www.g2.com/products/altair-hyperworks/reviews) - [AutoCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) - [BobCAD-CAM](https://www.g2.com/products/bobcad-cam/reviews) - [Designcenter Solid Edge](https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter-solid-edge/reviews) - 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CAD/CAM Compatibility - Data Verification **Design** - Drawing - Modeling - Visualize - Rendering **File Support - Additive Manufacturing** - STL Compatible - 3MF Compatible - OBJ Compatible **Design** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Rendering tools - Stochastic Modeling - Presentation Tools **Tools - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - 3D/solid modeling Tools - Rendering Tools - Drawing Tools - Editing Tools - Text Editing Tools **CNC Programming** - CNC Workflows - CNC Feature Recognition - Programming Control - Configurable Workflow - Job Card - Version Control **Edit** - File Import - Push/Pull - Views - Grips **File Editing - Additive Manufacturing** - Mesh Repair - File Editing **Tools** - Fluid analysis - Finite element analysis - Multibody dynamics - Design Analysis **File Options - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Export Files - Import Files - File Interoperability - Backwards compatibility - File size **Collaboration** - Annotate - Documentation - Data Extract **Software Integrations - Additive Manufacturing** - Standalone Slicer - Inetgrated 3D Modeling **Work** - Discrete event modeling - Continuous event modeling - Mechanical event simulation - Manufacturing process simulation - Integrate - Turbulence Modeling - Motion Modeling - Dynamic Modeling - Mathematical Modeling - Agent-Based Modeling - Monte Carlo Simulation **Customization - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Custom Commands - Custom Scripts - Custom Menus - Custom Interface **Additional Functionality** - API - Image Editing - Activity Dashboard - Animation - Reference Management - Secure Data Storage - Third-Party Integrations - Configuration Management - Annotations - Drag & Drop - Data Synchronization - For 3D Printing - Customizable Templates - Modeling & Simulation - For Manufacturers - Multiple Format Support - Workflow Management - Version Control - Document Management - Sketching and Annotation Tools - Multiple Projects - For Architects - Content Library - Bill of Materials Management - Collaboration Tools - Design Management - Rules-Based Workflow - Reporting/Analytics - Data Visualization - Generative AI - Data Capture and Transfer - Projections - AI Copilot - Real Time Comparisons - Document Generation - Component Library - Compliance Management - Customizable Branding - File Management - Real-Time Updates - Configurable Workflow **Machining** - Job Set-up - Operations - Tooling and Toolpaths **Software Type - Additive Manufacturing** - Downloadable Application **Environment** - Hardware support - Task - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity **Environment - Mechanical Computer-aided Design (MCAD)** - Hardware support - Task-based interfaces - Manage Multiple Profiles - Command Clarity **Additional Functionality** - G-Code Output - Batch Processing - Toolpath Generation - Collaboration Tools - 2D and 3D Machining - Multi-Language - Real-Time Monitoring - AI/Machine Learning - Data Management - Templates - For Aerospace Industry - Multi-Axis Machining Support - Setup Sheet Generation - For Automotive Industry - Tool Library Management - Data Import/Export - Nesting - Additive Manufacturing - Reporting & Statistics - IoT Integration - Material Database - Real-Time Updates - Customizable User Interface - CAD Integration - Role-Based Permissions - Roughing & Finishing Strategies - Machine Simulation **Additional Functionality** - Activity Dashboard - Configurable Workflow - API - Data Verification - Data Visualization - Generative AI - 3D Imaging - Projections - Data Import/Export - Design Management - Drag & Drop - Real-Time Monitoring - Version Control - Visual Analytics - Third-Party Integrations - Access Controls/Permissions - Workflow Management - Direct Manipulation - Scenario Planning - Product Data Management - Predictive Analytics - Change Management - Process Control - Customization - Content Library - Document Management - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - Rules-Based Workflow - File Management - 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