Buyer's guide

Designcenter X Solid Edge is Solid Edge in a secure SaaS environment. It offers core capabilities of Designcenter Solid Edge along with built-in cloud data management, cloud-enabled services including installation distribution and updates, ad-hoc collaboration via Teamcenter Share; it utilizes cloud-enabled named user licensing.

Yes, customers can use their existing Designcenter Solid Edge automation API and add-ins in Designcenter X Solid Edge.

Designcenter X Solid Edge is installed via Siemens Software Center on your local machine. It leverages cloud-based named user licensing.

Designcenter X Solid Edge will display a notification in the user’s login dialog when any update will be available. Users can decide if and when they wish to update their Designcenter X Solid Edge installation.

Automatic updates do not mean that Designcenter X Solid Edge will be updated without a user’s consent.

Named user licensing utilizes the identity of individual users where these licenses are hosted and managed on the cloud. Users can install Designcenter Solid Edge names licenses on multiple machines, e.g. workplace and home, and use cloud-enabled named user licensing to access the software seamlessly as needed.

If a named user loses internet connection, then they can continue using core Designcenter X Solid Edge capabilities for 24 hours and token enabled add-ons for 5 hours. Beyond this duration, they should connect to internet to refresh their entitlements to continue using Designcenter X Solid Edge.

Yes, Designcenter X Solid Edge can work with customer’s existing on-premises Teamcenter Server.

Yes, all of the out-of-the-box integrations between Teamcenter, Teamcenter X and Designcenter Solid Edge will be available for Designcenter X Solid Edge.

If the customer is not using any data management solution, such as built-in data management, on-premises Teamcenter or Teamcenter X, then they can store their data locally or a network location or in Designcenter Solid Edge Data Management.
In the case of built-in cloud data management or Teamcenter X, the data will be stored in the cloud storage.
In the case of on-premises Teamcenter, the data will be stored in their Teamcenter environment.
In the case the customer uses Teamcenter Share, then the data will be stored in cloud storage allocated to their ECA.

Yes, built-in cloud data management and Teamcenter Share for ad-hoc collaboration are included in all Designcenter X Solid Edge seats.

Designcenter X Solid Edge will be available in all countries, except China.

Yes, all stand-alone and add-on CAM XaaS products will work with Designcenter X Solid Edge .