Autodesk Maya vs. Solid Edge

Solid Edge

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Autodesk Maya	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Autodesk offers Maya, a 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering tool available to artists, animators, and educators, used to create realistic characters, models, and scenes, as well as effects such as explosions, cloth movement, etc.	$235 per month per user
Solid Edge	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Solid Edge is a software solutions for product development — 3D design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and cloud collaboration. Solid Edge aims to combine the speed and simplicity of direct modeling with the flexibility and control of parametric design.	$110 per month

Pricing

Autodesk Maya

Solid Edge

Editions & Modules

Monthly: $235
per month per user
Yearly: $1875
per year per user
3-Year: $5625
3 years per user

Design and Drafting XaaS: $110.00
per month
Foundation XaaS: $267.00
per month
Classic XaaS: $335.00
per month
Premium XaaS: $481.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Autodesk Maya	Solid Edge
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Maya is also available through Autodesk's Flex plan and pricing. Tokens expire 1 year from date of purchase. Not all products and features are available with Flex. Students and teachers at qualified academic institutions worldwide are eligible for free access to Autodesk software for one-year through the Autodesk Education Community.

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Community Pulse
	Autodesk Maya	Solid Edge
Considered Both Products	Autodesk Maya Verified User Anonymous Chose Autodesk Maya The UI of 3ds Max is not that good and very old, not the best. Blender is the best for everything, especially its modeling and animation tools are not the best as compared to Autodesk Maya. Cinema 4D is good for motion graphics and create vibrant renders but it has limited … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Autodesk Maya Autodesk Maya is better than these other softwares because Autodesk Maya is a software that does not have updates every time, and this means that you do not have to waste time seeing what has been updated and what has not. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Autodesk Maya We were evaluating the products within the Adobe portfolio like Adobe Animate, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects majorly among few others before finalising on the Autodesk Maya. One of the major reasons for that was earlier experience with the Autodesk Maya tool for the … Incentivized Helpful? vijay kumar Sr Lighting Artist Chose Autodesk Maya All are different and cannot compare with each other's abilities. Maya is more powerful than any other software compared to. Incentivized Helpful? Salomi Rai Junior Animator Chose Autodesk Maya Animating in Autodesk Maya is much more convenient and easier in comparison to Blender. It's easier to use features like constrains, motion trails, and attribute editors in Autodesk Maya. Most of the time I use blender for modeling and Autodesk Maya for animation. Either way, I … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Urbina Designer Chose Autodesk Maya You can create solids, figures in 3D, and especially organic forms, more easily and efficiently using Maya than with other programs or in specific Catia. You can also create different pieces to later assemble them, and thus create figures even more complex or in greater detail. … Incentivized Helpful? Miroslav Bobryshev 3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist Chose Autodesk Maya There are list of alternatives of Autodest Maya: SideFX Houdini, Blender. We use them all depending on the task. Incentivized Helpful?	Solid Edge AH Alex Humphrey Principal Development Engineer Chose Solid Edge Solid Edge was excellent at sheetmetal and fabrication design as well as having a good Teamcenter integration Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Solid Edge Better usage, especially when using NX as CAM software as well. Incentivized Helpful? DR Daniel Rehn Admin and Software Dev Chose Solid Edge FreeCAD is often better than Solid Edge 2021 when converting files, but I hope this changes with 2023 NX is overall more powerful, but that is to be expected (and you cant add it above because it is too short for whatever reason). Incentivized Helpful? AJ Amit Javiya Process Engineer Chose Solid Edge First, we were using Autocad in our industry then we switched it to Solid edge. Autocad isn't well suited for 3D drawing and it takes very much time to make 3D in Autocad. In Solid Edge, you can create 3D drawings and convert them into 2D instantly without much effort. You can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Solid Edge What makes Solid Edge better than any other of the previously mentioned software is the Synchronous technology feature. This is the ability to integrate 2D and 3D sketching. Without planning ahead you can start modeling from a simple sketch. This makes this software a better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Solid Edge Solid Edge is an old technology of design. It is a pioneer of designing features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Solid Edge SOLIDWORKS has a really intuitive interface for a traditional CAD package. It is easy to use, easy to learn and is perfectly suited for any user. Solid Edge lacks this ease of use. Autodesk Inventor is great for personal use as well as in small businesses. It is easy to learn, … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Urbina Profesor Chose Solid Edge I have used several programs to model but the one that I liked the most is Solid Edge. With this program you can do anything you need, you can also make assemblies very easily and make plans. Something that it does not have in comparison to others are the commands, if it had … Incentivized Helpful? David Breitstein Owner Chose Solid Edge It's actually simple Solid Works wins the popularity contest, AutoCad has so many years of user base Solid Edge wins the functionality portion of any comparison ($ to performance) to any product. eventually, companies realize this after the barrage of marketing. As the owner of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Solid Edge I would say it is on par with DraftSight, and better and worse than TurboCAD in performance. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Rodgers Mechanical Engineer Chose Solid Edge Solid Edge and SolidWorks can be very similar in the resulting output of parts, assemblies, and drawings. The difference lies in what goes into getting those results. SolidWorks is held back by slower editing as the parts gain more and more features, and becomes dangerous when … Incentivized Helpful? John T. Winter Senior Mechanical Engineer Chose Solid Edge I've used both SOLIDWORKS and Solid Edge. I prefer Solid Edge over SOLIDWORKS due to the ease of use. They are pretty similar, but the performance is the same as long as you have a good workstation. The price is less since Siemens owns the Parasolid kernel. It may just be a … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Smith, MBA CAD & Motion Media Design Instructor Chose Solid Edge Synchronous technology stands above the rest by a large margin. Having the ability to perform direct or parametric modeling in the same application is a huge benefit. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Autodesk Maya	Solid Edge
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User Ratings
	Autodesk Maya	Solid Edge
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	5.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Autodesk Maya	Solid Edge
Likelihood to Recommend	We have the design team using that to create videos for our concepts in the Cyber security - Products, services and solutions as well as in AI/ML, basically everything that needs to be communicated in the best way we use Autodesk Maya for the videos thus making it more fun and easy to understand the concepts to get going. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	For simple steel construction, it is great. When you want to do other stuff like electrical wiring, factory planning, etc. it's not great, and the solution you can buy does not fit our needs so we need to develop our own. Incentivized DR Daniel Rehn Admin and Software Dev Read full review
Pros	Easy to build workflow due to strong customizability. Industry share. Easy to collaborate with other companies. Strong cooperation with other software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Allows designers to work as they choose and not have to acclimate their work for the product's requirements. This results in productive use of Edge, thus an ROI for the company. Manage large (high count of components) assemblies very well. Users spend little to no time trying to overcome speed issue with respect to assemblies. Synchronous Design! This highly productive design process is unique to Edge and very addictive David Breitstein Owner Read full review
Cons	Autodesk Maya is pretty hard to learn in comparison to other softwares, many people find it very difficult to learn. The cost of the software is pretty high and training on the software takes up lot of time and money. The lack of procedural pipeline in the software making companies to move towards other softwares like houdini and blender. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Being used to 2-key and 3-key commands from the keyboard, it would be nice if this was more robust in Solid Edge. The capability of programming keystroke commands exists in Solid Edge, but it would be more user friendly in that regard. Editing hatches can be a challenge. I'm not a fan of the ribbon bar, but that seems to be a feature across software platforms in Windows. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	As Autodesk Maya was one of the first softwares I learned, so I feel very fun to work with it. The overall usabilty feels very natural to me and I felt it's easy to learn but tough to master kind of software. Some people find it very difficult to learn, so I deduced some rating points. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	As mentioned previously, Siemens Solid Edge is not the most user-friendly of products at all. It requires intense training to make sure that the basics are understood, and after that, there are numerous other training interventions needed to be able to perform expert-level CAD functions. The GUI is not intuitive, as many other packages are, and the features built-in are not well defined. The process to use many of these features is counter-intuitive and requires a mind-shift. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I have been involved with support and training of Solid Edge for 24 years. Given that I based my business model on support, and have been successful for all these years, I know excellent support. Siemens support for Solid Edge, "GTAC", is the definition of support for a product in every aspect. David Breitstein Owner Read full review
Alternatives Considered	The UI of 3ds Max is not that good and very old, not the best. Blender is the best for everything, especially its modeling and animation tools are not the best as compared to Autodesk Maya. Cinema 4D is good for motion graphics and create vibrant renders but it has limited options to create things. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SOLIDWORKS has a really intuitive interface for a traditional CAD package. It is easy to use, easy to learn and is perfectly suited for any user. Solid Edge lacks this ease of use. Autodesk Inventor is great for personal use as well as in small businesses. It is easy to learn, produces great models quickly and is very reasonably priced. My personal favourite, Onshape has redefined what CAD is meant to be, as well as the way in which it is meant to be used. It is highly functional, intuitive, and changes the way in which CAD is perceived by the user. It is much more interactive than traditional CAD packages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	The pros is speeding up workflow . The ability to customize Maya for various tasks on their own. Another pros is easy programming study. Automation of routine tasks did not require deep knowledge in programming. There was one negative thing. The transition from a permanent license to a one-year subscription in 2016-2017, as the previous purchased licenses were canceled by the Autodesk. Incentivized Miroslav Bobryshev 3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist Read full review	We have purchased a server version of solid edge so for one license 6 people can operate it at a time which is economically all viable. We have integrated it with PLM Teamcenter so we can share drawings and other files across other factories. Solid edge is less famous than Solid Works so sometimes you have to convert it into step files. It is very productive and easy to lean application for everyone. Incentivized AJ Amit Javiya Process Engineer Read full review
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