The best Professional 3D CAD Software you can use for FREE in 2023? | Solid Edge 2023
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Get ready to elevate your design skills with the ultimate FREE CAD software! In this Siemens Solid Edge 2023 introduction video, I'll be showing you the powerful Community Edition, perfect for makers, hobbyists, and anyone eager to learn Solid Edge without spending a dime.
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📖 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Download
01:06 First Start in Solid Edge 2023
01:38 Start your first part
01:50 Synchronous vs. Ordered Mode
03:24 Customize your themes
03:57 Your first sketch
06:39 Sketch options
08:18 Extrude
10:43 Sketch a cutout
12:24 Add more geometric features
17:30 Make easy changes to the parametric model
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🌟 Solid Edge 2023 Community Edition is a game-changer, offering robust and professional-grade CAD tools that were once only available to industry professionals. Now, you too can create stunning 3D designs, bring your innovative ideas to life, and step up your maker game!
💡 In this video, we'll explore:
- The features and capabilities of Solid Edge 2023 Community Edition
- How to get started with this free version of Solid Edge, no strings attached
- Tips and tricks to help you make the most of your CAD journey
📚 Whether you're a seasoned maker, an ambitious hobbyist, or just curious about diving into the world of CAD, the Solid Edge 2023 Community Edition is your ticket to unlocking endless possibilities. Don't miss this chance to learn, create, and grow with this fantastic free software!
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The amount of comments compared to views (2000 views, 17 comments) is ridiculously LOW!) 😨😨
Great video. I very much enjoyed your step-by-step presentation. I have use a free academic version of the software for many years. I have a little video I made of the steering geometry of the Greenpower F24 racer here ua-cam.com/video/3BxjPLsywBo/v-deo.html
Please continue on with your series. I would like to see videos on surfacing, 3D sketching, and other more advanced features.
Waiting for the next episode of this series , thank you
just filecr autodesk inventor pro for me
All I can say is wow. I've been out of the industry for a few years and had no idea a free version of Solid Edge was available. I can't say thank you enough for bringing this to our attention. I really hope you continue the English tutorials for SE. I look forward to getting back to my design roots.
Thanks for your kind message, I'm glad you like the video and you'll have a lot of fun with SE.
@@FreeCADAcademy I just finished the video. I am blown away at the progress in model creation by the current SE. My design brain cells are itching to get started.
Can't wait to hear from you, what models you create!
I use NX almost every day professionally, and really wished there was some way I could get access to it (or something very much like it) for my own personal projects. Then I stumbled on this video, I had absolutely no idea that Siemens made Solid Edge, or that it was available for free, for non-commercial use! Literally about to download it, thanks for bringing this to the surface!
Glad I could help!
While it’s not exactly the same workflow as NX you will be able to use it productively in no time - I’m sure. 🥳
Share your views after using it. Thanks!
@@headgasket_ So a few days in now, and so far I like it - its definitely a different workflow to NX for sure, much more like Solidworks, but its performance is fantastic, comes bundled with Keyshot 11 for rendering, and aside the minor irritation of only having Orbit rather than Turntable navigation for objects, I can't fault it for anything. Continuing my personal projects with it, and will update if I hit any snags or issues.
So its time for me to update this; I used Solid Edge for a couple of months, but have ended up moving back to FreeCAD and Assembly 3 and 4 workbenches. This was mainly due to stability issues with Solid Edge, I tried it on two machines (Ryzen 9 5900X & 3090 and Ryzen 9 5950X & 3090 Ti) and suffered fairly regular crashes and lock ups on both machines, where FreeCAD runs all day on those two machines, or on my dedicated CAD box (Debian, 2xE5-2699v4 & 6900XT). Solid Edge draw performance yet to be beaten though, the display was lightening fast even with very complex assembles, and I did enjoy it, but the stability killed it for me for now, though I will no doubt return and check it out again once its updated again :)
@@DWatso Thanks for the update!
Excellent tutorial. I downloaded Solid edge a few months ago and have followed several youtube lessons with varying degrees of success. I have to say that your explanations are brilliant and have filled in may gaps in my knowledge and understanding of some of the basic tools. Thanks.
I thank you for a training style that seems to match my background. My first part design training started with a 4H pencil and a T square. Your methods of teaching do seem easier to follow. I have worked as a toolmaker for fifty years, and do like things that make sense. I will be back for more of your lessons.
Awww yeah - Love seeing other FREE solutions for the world of 3D CAD!
Thanks 🙏 it’s always cool to see how many options the users have these days
I got to know Solid Edge in 1997 when it was introduced at my first job and since then, except for about three years when I used NX, I have been working in it non-stop, including in my third current job. That's why I was very pleased when I came across that it can be used for non-commercial stuff for free. I make all kinds of small models in it, but also one big home project of a very powerful LED flashlight.
EXCELLENT presentation - SHORT focused and TO the point 👍. Well DONE !
Thanks for all the tips. I am glad to see there is a Community option for an old retiree like me to maintain my skills. I was a professional Solidworks user and this program seems easy to learn.
PLEASE, continue with this series 🙏
Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Looking forward for more videos. Solid Edgde is one of the only programs that offers free version with all the powerful tools
Yes, Solid Edge gives you almost the complete toolset and does not bother you with tons of limitations like others do..
I have to say I'm really enjoying Solid Edge. Never heard of it and have been a Fusion 360 user for a while now. I've been using it non-stop over the weekend and I really like synchronous mode. Feels much faster and intuitive vs Fusion. So far besides some of the plug-ins that I like for Fusion I think I may stick with it as my main CAD program.
at first I didn't understand what Synchronous mode but when your summary reviewed it, instantly I understood the power of dynamically changing a part; yet the direct history exists. I will try it because I really think Fusion360 is quite outdated and was about to start OnShape. Thanks UA-cam Algorithm for this suggestion.
This just popped up on "Recommended" by UA-cam, my jaw dropped, something new for me to learn as RC Models Hobbyist, downloaded to follow your tutorial....👍
Great thanks for your comment I hope you like the video and find it useful.
There will be more solid Edge tutorials in the upcoming weeks!
Didn't even know that Solid Edge existed until a few months ago. It never appeared in any search I did for 3d modelling software. Why? It certainly has all the features I need, and is a lot easier to use than FreeCAD. With Solid Edge and Blender together all of my 3d design needs are covered. There are lots of tutorials available for both, so I should become an expert in no time.
Well, If you want a REAL free program, I suggest you continue with FreeCad, but if you want to switch to Solid Edge anyway, keep this in mind:
Such a good and easy to learn program *CAN NOT BE FREE FOR EVER* and THIS IS A FACT !.
Release a free program is a hook many companies use to GET NEW CUSTOMERS, and then after a while (when you have spend time and effort in learning this "fantastic free program") you recieve a notification reading: from now on you will have to pay a rent for using it ! ! !.
Solid Edge was created by Siemens Co. which is a well known company that makes excellent and very professional programs, but non of them is for Free. So, why Solid Edge have to be an exception ?. Think about it.
Cheers, John from Chile, South America.
Great intro to Solid Edge. Thanks for preparing this.
Excellent tutorial. The workflow is really geared for productivity over other parametric cad programs. One key thing I noticed when messing around as I followed along is that when dimensions are changed on the fly, it skews the other dimensions already set on an extrusion object. I locked the dimension when altering it and them moved on to correcting the other that changed...locking that as well and continuing until they have all been corrected and locked. I will work with it for a while but I see it as possibly supplanting freecad/solidworks/fusion360 as my go to tool for fast modeling.
yes, this can feel a little unfamiliar in the beginning when Solid Edge also changes the other dimensions. To prevent this from happening you already found out how to lock these. Takes a little time to get used to the workflow I guess.
I started learning Freecad, but then i tryed this Solid edge, and i find that Solid edge is better for me. Thanks for the video.
Thank you. You are a great asset to the maker community.
Best video to get started with solid edge. Thank you
Usefull information, well done, thanks :)
Thank you , ideal software for my 3D printing needs
Excellent idea! The more people that learn it, the greater the need for it! Free advertising! ❤❤❤
I really enjoyed you free cad videos and I hope you do more on Solid Edge as you have a very good teaching style.
Super.. Just what I wished for. Thanks 👍🍀
Very Cool.....keep'em coming
Ive been using solid edge for a long time and can definitely recommend it!
This is great - I used Solid Edge as a student and liked it. It's probably advanced a bit since then. But I want to sell the stuff I design, print, and carve... so I'll stick with FreeCAD if I can.
I've wasted enough time fighting FreeCAD bugs that I could probably design and iterate in a professional software and then recreate the model in FreeCAD if I cared to sell it.
@@ctrlaltdebug FreeCAD is developing very well. Maybe this year (but properly next year) we will see a really good stable FreeCAD version. Same nice features and topology nameing issue will be solved. Be patient and it will be fruitful, I'm sure.
Looks interesting, dedinitely I will try this out. Thanks for your time 😊
Very well explained. Usefull. Thank you very much.
Thanks so much
Great tutorial, great Software, please keep more such tutorials for SE comming ;-)
A fantastic introduction. Thank you.
I'll use use my train journey tomorrow to try it out.
Its really nice. good Job. I just started using FreeCAD, your video is definetely a very good use.
Thanks for the heads up - this looks great.
Sure you’re welcome.
I’ll try to introduce a few more great softwares here which are worth a try ! 🙏
@@FreeCADAcademy that would be great.
I downloaded, used it, and I loved it..
So nice this tuto
This was excellent. Please can you do more solid edge tutorials as there are not that many on You tube who actually speak.
This was awesome
Hello! I was thinking of using this for some small academy projects since they didn't provide us with a software we could potentially use, is there any way to convert a sketch into a 3D object and the other way around or do you have to draw both manually? Anyway, huge thanks for this video.
Hi thanks for the tutorial. I was just wondering why you would use synchronous mode? what is the advantage. I find that not being able to edit the sketch and have the model update quite problematic. I just recently created my first model in synchronous mode, not realising that I wouldn't be able to update it. I had to start from scratch in ordered mode. I think ordered mode is superior as you have more control over your model, I would appreciate your opinion on this.
Ill have to check this out. Im a professional solidworks user and have used NX in the past along with some messing around with fusion360.
Thank you
impressive, very nice
Enjoying your videos but I have a slight problem when selecting. When I hover over an edge to round it over I seem unable to highlight the individual required edge but only all edges on that face, ( an edge set ). It is driving me crazy as I am unable to round over a single edge. Any help would be much appreciated. Solved it. The chain option has to be selected, then you can select edges.
Thanks for publishing this video. I am still a TinkerCad user, as the cost is right and does 90% of what I need easliy. I have looked at most of the other free programs, and found they are so limited or the license can be withdrawn at any time. I will do a little more research on this, but looks like something that would meet my needs as a hobbyist.
Yep. The catch is that this "free" version can go away in the blink of an eye.
how you are making and showing tutorial video of the solid edge community version. because siemens don't allow, no one can make any UA-cam tutorial video or 3d print file for sell.
Synchronous mode is impressive. I'm starting learning CAD on FreeCAD (I don't like the "business model" of Fusion 360 and Onshape) and it's still time for me to switch to other software because I've not yet memory muscle on FreeCAD.
I will take a look on Solid Edge but "only on Windows" is a brake for me.
Hi, maybe I can help with some suggestions. Not sure about other than windows support, I think there is on one at least of the following suggestions... Anyway, I'm not new to cad, been making things for a few years, but recently I've been looking for a more modern cad program and have found three so far that might save you a LOT of headache if you're just starting. One thing first though, choosing a cad program should highly depend on what you envision doing with cad in the future. that means such as for fun, your own business, self employed,or working for a company, plus in what sort of industries. . Ok, so I've been looking at three programs...."SelfCad", "Moi" and "Plasticity" which is really new and still in development. At this moment I can't say which is the best deal, but they all have free trials and the licenses are pretty cheap given what you get. Hope this helps and good luck in the future
Have you checked my Plasticity introduction on the German channel?
SolidCAM cad SolidWorks is the true power!
With this maker version do you can export dxf of the side views???
Hmm.. did the channel name just change from FreeCAD Academy to Free CAD Academy?
Just an observation, nothing wrong with that. Thanks for your tutorials!
Yes I did it because the channel is not focused on FreeCAD alone but will be a home for various CAD software which is free for hobby and DIY use. I did announce it a few months ago in the community tab of my channel.
FreeCAD does not support me at all
Please more videos for solid edge, looks impresive, wondering if it has a robust frame generator ..?
After FreeCad , it s looks just amazing 😍😍😍
Beim Download von SE Community Edition ist ein Pflichtfeld: “Unternehmen” jedoch möchte ich es ausschließlich privat nutzen? Was gibt man da denn an ?
Hello Florian, great video! Do you have other tutorial videos planned regarding this software?
I am absolutely blown away. I use Onshape but this Solid edge looks so much easier to navigate. To date I had never heard of this software. I just wonder how long it will be free for hobbyist?
In the about box it looks like a running 3 years from the release date.
This looks great I hope you will continue with tutorial on solid edge, I like your approach as a total newbie you make it so easy to follow, could've get my head around freecad to be honest, I used autocad auto sketch at college many many years ago and somehow this look similar in ways ☺️ looking at resigning for 3d printer
Yes Siemens paid me to make a whole series 😬
@@FreeCADAcademy 👍
@@FreeCADAcademy That is fantastic, Flowwie !. In this case I will follow your future tutorials about this program.
Greetings from Chile, South America. I´m John.
thanks and nice to meet you John!
Excellent tutorial, I watched the whole video and then download the program and restarted the video. Unfortunately, following the same steps, I couldn't repeat your results. This looks so much better than Tinkercad or Freecad, but I just can't get it to work for me.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Didn't realize that solid edge was free.
I use NX for my job, so I gave it a shot, a bit disappointed though. It seems like a powerful tool, but the UI and workflow feel much different than NX or any parametric CAD package.
I'll keep it downloaded, but for now I'll stick to FreeCAD / OnShape / Fusion360 since I'm just making simple models for 3d printing as a hobby.
Great tutorial but I had a problem when it came to the holes. I couldn't see a centre mark, nor a snap was felt when trying to place the holes in the centre. I noticed a '+' indicating the centre on your screen in the video but it does not show on mine. Am I missing something? Love your style of teaching (albeit just a little fast for me 'cos I had to pause the video every few seconds). Have subscribed.
Well, looks good. First hurdle: When I open it I get a workspace with the axes and as soon as I move the mouse it changes to 4 sets of axes cascaded, and all slightly greyed.
Second hurdle is click 2 point rectangle and I get no planes shown. I can hit F3 and draw but I have no set of inersecting planes to choose the one I want. Drawing a rectangle results in 4 cascaded rectangles, one in each of the shaded sets of axes.
So from the outset this looks as if it isn't going to work.
I used Solidworks, Solid Edge and plant 3D ( purpose of plant 3D is different though ) for past few years. The best tool is Solidworks. The negative for the solid edge is that it is not user friendly. Things are a bit more complicated than Solidworks. For drafting solid edge has an advantage than solidworks.
Maybe I forgot FREE CAD. Thank you very much for the video. I will wait for another video. For the Solid Edge program
Yes thats next on my task list!
Amazing this videos sir
Thx sir
Impressive! Thanks for video! It also work on Linux?
Impressive!
Thanks
Looks like it has inhouse FEA, definitely downloading.
I'm stuck in imperial units 😭
I try to change the settings to mm and it won't stay.
Looks like the community edition is "licensed" for only approximately 3 years (I show 1087 days). What happens then? I would hate to go through the learning curve and get proficient with it and then not be able to use it in 3 years. Thoughts?
Last I looked, no CAM, has that changed? If not, how do I drive my CNC with models made using Solid Edge? I did the tutorials and they were very well thought out, I really progressed quickly.
Unfortunately in the FREE version, there is NO cam.
I was tempted to try it out, because the software looks full of features. So the journey begins...
First I had some weird issues with display - it's like infinite rirror thing. After searching for a solution online I installed newest video drivers. That helped.
But another problem appeared. Now I don't see solid bodies. They are visible when I move or rotate the view, bot when I stop they disappear. Again - online search. Solution: turn off antialiasing...
Well ok. I can live with that.
So I went to make my fist steps. Created a simple body, then put a chamfer on some edges. Then I hit "undo" and the program crashed.
Imagine a long work and a sudden crash. I give up and going back to Fusion 360.
I tried to download the community version and got a message saying they were not able to approve my download at this time and to contact an IT professional in my company or school. I am an individual hobbyist. I'm bummed! Suggestions or help welcome.
How do you define commercial use? First thing to do when I want to download this software, is to give company name, but use for companies isn't already a commercial use? Can you please straighten it up?
This is awsome !!!!!!
Seems to have more features than the free F360, tnx a lot mate !!!!
You’re welcome mate!
I’m my opinion, if you only compare the free version of Fusion and Solid edge , you have the better deal with solid Edge. Less limitations and no cloud
@@FreeCADAcademy yup the cloud feature is a downer as i leave on a remote island with not so good internet and sometimes Fusion will crap out.
BTW how does it handle imported mesh files ? I've seen Solidworks handling them like "normal" files as with Fusion or FreeCad it's a nightmare to modify anything......
SE23 shows only "Ausgewogen - Solid Edge Standard" (or "Balanced - Solid Edge Standard") so I cannot change the theme.
what can i use for free for commercial use as i will only be designing and selling my 3d prints?
When you save something is it private on your own device or is it in the cloud and open to others viewing it
No cloud involved !
#Florian wie erstellt man im Solid edge 2023 ein kreismuster im sequenziell Modus, beim Befehl Muster kann ich von Rechteck nicht auf Kreis umstellen
Can't get the download. I get stuck at this message. "Unfortunately, we are unable to approve your license request at this time. If you are still interested in receiving access to our software then please contact an IT administrator at your company or educational institution."
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I followed along very closely, but at 17:09 when I try to change the fillet radius I get the message: "The requested dimension modification cannot be made. Change the Design Intent settings or the command options and try again." Version I'm using is 2024_2310.
Thanks for the notification, I will have to look into that detail.
Thank you very much for the very nice intro tutorial for Solid Edge! 😃👍
I've been tinkering a bit in Fusion 360 and like that you can reference multiple features and actions in its History line/bar to drive new features and actions. Do you know if Solid Edge can reference history items too, to drive new features?
yes of course you can do that too!
@@FreeCADAcademy Thanks, very interesting! 😃 One last question, can the free version export to other formats (like STEP or IGES etc.) so the models can be worked on further in Moi3D for example, or is it only outputting .stl-files? I tried to find info on their site but I couldn't find anything for the free version other than that the files can't be used in the full version and the drawings are watermarked.
you are not limited with your export formats, so you can easily export step and iges.
@@FreeCADAcademy Wow, that's incredibly handy! Thank you so much for your kind help. 🤩👍👍
I am using Solidworks from few years for my project and I really like it because of it's simplicity but licensing is a major issue with it. So I found your video of Solid Edge and it looks very much familiar with Solidworks.
So how similar is it with Solidworks if you have any idea about it 🤔?
Don’t know solid works very well. There are some similarities of course but the details are different as always
Just a few questions:
- can Solid Edge model objects with curved surfaces such as cars?
- can it be navigated via pen tablet?
- can its shortcuts for its navigation be customized like Blender with ALT key enabled...wirth ALT key enabled (unfortunately FREECAD is not possible)
- can the main commands be customized via shortcuts?
As far as I know it can do all you asking. For car modeling it can do it, but don't expect it will work like alias, icem, catia, or NX. Because Solid Edge doesn't have capabilities to do class A surfacing.
And I personally use xp pen tablet. But don't expect it works like shapr3d, because Solid Edge is like others CAD in same league (Solidworks, Fusion360, Inventor).
CMIIW
Rhino 3d is also a surface modeller par excellence
Super
Thanks
Let's say I try the free community version and like it. And then I want to use it for commercial purposes.
1. How much does it cost?
2. What is their business model? Can I buy it and own it and it runs locally on my computer? Or do I have to rent it with a monthly fee?
3. Where are my files/models stored?
I would love a comparable professional alternative to Fusion 360. They pulled the rug out from under the hobbyists and small business owners and I will never touch them again.
Perhaps you SHOULD talk about the download. What is the "Gimp" software that trys to download itself onto my machine? I want Solid edge because it looks like it will solve some of my problems, but this thing is a mystery, wrapped in a puzzle, hidden in a conundrum!
Weldon sir
Thanks sir !
I went to the Solid Edge Community link as provided and it is in German. Nowhere did I find an English version, HELP
Let me have a look…
www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/solid-edge/en_us/free-software/community
Is this better than FreeCAD? I just finished your tutorials on FreeCAD, and now I see this. Should I just switch over to this?
I am trying to use Free CAD 0.21.2 and it’s completely different interface as to what you are showing.
For makers is it a one year free subscription then you have to pay or you can renew for the maker edition ?
You can renew the Community edition every year for free. Usually in autumn we get a new version with new updates and features
@@FreeCADAcademy thank you
Can Intel celeron N5100 able to run free cad
No one knows if they change their terms of service.
Thanks, Freecad is my first choose.
I tried using Solid Edge and started to get a grip on it, but unfortunately it crashes very frequently on my computer. So for the time being I stay with CREO ED Express, which is a bit limited on functions like gears or threads but since we used CREO for about 20 years in my company, I'm pretty much used to it.
I think about trying onshape, though. I hope it doesn't have game breakers for me like the file-management in fusion360.
Nice tutorial and introduction!
But, system requirements was so great hidden in Siemens page that I barely find them..
It's only for Windows and account creation is required - again (everyone is doing this and that's ending up with many accounts for every company and every page), just to test..
And, by the way, I'm using Linux.. 😂
I am accustomed to Solidworks and I see enough similarities that I think I can learn this quicker than Fusion360, which is currently confusing me. One question though - is CAM built in as it is with Fusion?
Unfortunately NO CAM in the free version
@@FreeCADAcademy So we can design and admire, but not build. That's a shame. Back to Fusion360
@@donepearce Just about to download, so I can't answer for certain, but I see no reason you can't 'slice' an output model and 3D print it. Just doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Solid-Cam with SolidWorks.
@@ColinDyckes 3d printing from an stl is no problem. It is CNC machining that requires a CAM solution.
@@donepearce Yes, having installed and tried it I found that it even has a slicer of sorts built-in. I'd still export to an STL and slice separately. It does seem to support export to many different model formats. Could an existing CAM solution work?
Last time i used Solid Edge (2008 isch) its was prone to crashing and corrupting the working file, many hours lost like tears in the rain 🙂
Oh that sounds awful, I am sorry to hear!
Wow !! how long has a free version been available ? How far into the future do you think this free version will exist ?
In my spare time I like to design novel and strange engines... Electro-mechanical devices... etc... I like to explore physics + math & being able to create the experiments to validate ideas is vital !! Does this program have enough features(like unlimited #of parts in assemblies) to make something like an internal combustion engine ? like a standard v6 car engine.
Also, I REALLY need to store dimensions/parameters and have other dimensions based on those... with math formulas ...
Community edition from 2020 and below are permanent, from 2021 the license is of 3 years and you can renovate it.
Nowadays you are limitless and you don't need internet connection.
Other option can be Alibre Atom, is cheap
Will you guys add EDM and grinding? I know its a far fetch but I hope you can do it some day :)
FreeCAD has made the greatest progress when they introduced diameter
Already available for Mac too?