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Helping Engineers Design Better

With this free download, try award-winning Solid Edge with synchronous technology and see how you can design better. See first-hand how companies like yours can get accelerated design, faster revisions, and better reuse of imported 2D and 3D data. In this free offering you get access to the full version of Solid Edge, complete with part modeling, assembly design, drafting, simulation, and add-on applications. There are no restrictions on the number of saves, part sizes, or other factors that would limit your ability to create complete product designs.

Solid Edge, a core component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio, is the most complete hybrid 2D/3D CAD system that uses synchronous technology for accelerated design, faster change, and improved imported reuse. With superior part and assembly modeling, drafting, transparent data management, and built-in finite element analysis, Solid Edge eases the growing complexity of product design.

Solid Edge with synchronous technology delivers dramatic new ways to produce better designs faster. This latest release breaks new ground, leveraging synchronous technology to accelerate design, speed ECOs and improve imported 2D and 3D reuse. With improved simulation, collaboration, and thousands of customer-driven enhancements, Solid Edge continues to remove traditional barriers to design.

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Free 2D
Whether you are using 2D across your company or for a specific 2D design process, Solid Edge 2D Drafting will give you an immediate advantage with production-proven capabilities including drawing layout, Goal Seeking, diagramming, and dimensioning.  It is fully compliant with ISO, ANSI, BSI, DIN, JIS and UNI, and it's absolutely FREE to download and use.

Solid Edge 2D Drafting eases the transition from 2D AutoCAD with import wizards, matched fonts and color schemes, XREF support, paper/model space support and much more. Get up to speed faster with a built-in Command Finder - never look for AutoCAD equivalent command again.

Solid Edge 2D Drafting requires Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 and now includes the Free Solid Edge Viewer. Make sure you have Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later for the download.

Current downloads are for Solid Edge ST4.

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Best 3D CAD For Construction Design

3D CAD is the new frontier for construction design. It has revolutionized architectural and engineering design, and is developing rapidly into a primary tool for major construction as well as design innovation. CAD drafting software is also very much a matter of informed choice among professionals.

Choosing a 3D CAD package
The most basic preliminary design involves very high standards of work. Drafting in 3D is an exacting process, and the professional demand for good software is based on a real need for efficiency, accuracy, and good drafting options.

Architectural drafters must be able to design, create and modify any part of a design accurately, and to efficiently and reliably create the right specifications for each part of a design. These very high performance standards are a very good set of benchmarks for choosing a 3D drafting software package.

Cost effectiveness and 3D CAD
One of the reasons for the popularity of 3D among professionals is that 3D allows full integration of all design elements. It can do in seconds work that used to take days. This involves using advanced design software, like industry leader Tekla, but it pays for itself many times over as a time saver and quality control.

For example, a basic 3D design template, one of the common features of 3D design, removes the need for preliminary drafting, and allows full customization of advanced design elements. The modified templates can then be used as a standard for sometimes hundreds of other elements. This is "cost efficiency" in the most literal sense, saving hundreds of hours of work.

Tailoring your 3D CAD to your needs
CAD is extremely versatile, and adaptable to any design scenario. Every specification and component element in a construction plan, and there are thousands of these in many plans, must be accessible while drafting.

Some types of 3D drafting involve large numbers of different functions and designs, and a lot of potentially time consuming, picky, detailed work. 3D drastically reduces time usage in production of plans, compared to other design formats. 3D allows efficient cross checks, integration and component design to proceed smoothly as integrated parts of the natural working dynamic.


3D is the best, most reliable, and most comprehensive design and drafting tool in construction planning.

The operating criteria for 3D are like an inventory of design requirements:

• Complete sets of integrated plans and design information 
• Reinforcements, stress loading and other features incorporated into planning from basic design to completed plans 
• Full access to all aspects of design down to single specifications 
• Full visualization of all designs and plans 
• Modeling functions for accuracy 
• Specifications to industry and statutory standards at the click of a mouse 
• Comprehensive quality checks and integration functions 
• A lot of saved time due to basic software features 
• Other types of design software simply cannot do what CAD does effortlessly.

Pacific Computing is the exclusive distributor in Aust and NZ of Tekla Structures 3D modelling construction software for structural detailing and drafting. For more information and to view our range of products, visit Construction Software.

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