[lapuser]

Don't really have a category to put this in yet so I will post it here. At the Solid Edge University 2012 in nashville this year Geometric was set up and was demoing a version in it's earliest stages of CAM integrated into Solid Edge. It looks at this time like Geometric will be the first to integrate with SE and for users of Solid Edge like me who also produce the parts we design this is a big deal. Look for this to happen later this year.

For those of you who are not aware of what is going on here is an update. SolidWorks is busy doing what they want and forcing users into kernal change, the cloud and having to learn a new cad program anyway as SolidWorks is going to be shoehorned into Catia thus becoming "Catia Lite". For those of you sleeping under a rock and not aware of what is going on it is time to wake up and get your life raft ready. SolidWorks is heading into a multi year customer nightmare plus adding the jeapordy of the cloud to your workflow to boot. You could also ignore this warning if it does not matter to you today and wait for tomorrow when it will. You use SW you are going to get a crash course in SW love when they make the move.

Solid Edge is going to take their place in the next few years with the better program which happens to have mature direct editing allready and no kernal change as Siemens owns Parasolids which Solid Works is currently run on. SE is strictly about geometry creation and SW is about who knows what anymore. This integration of CAM is one of the big things SW had that SE did not and this will be true no more later this year. When SolidEdge ST5 is released to the public in July you would benefit from having a look at software that will be stable for many years to come and best in class in almost every area.

[markrief]

An update on this story...
CAMWorks for Solid Edge for formally announced this week at Solid Edge University in Cincinatti.

For more information on the product, please visit CAMWorks for Solid Edge - CAMWorks: CNC CAD/CAM Software within SolidWorks and Solid Edge

Mark Rief
Siemens PLM Software