habbe and chriss007,

Paulie is basically correct in the comparason between SolidWorks and Solid Edge. I reviewed a few recent releases of Solid Edge for Cadalyst magazine and their assembly functionality is actually very good. Here are links to some of those reviews:

• Solid Edge v15
• Super features, collaboration tools head the list of new features.
• Mar 1, 2004 - By: Don LaCourse
• Solid Edge steps up to surfacing (v14)
• Rapid Blue technology adds hip hybrid modeling tools.
• Sep 1, 2003 - By: Don LaCourse

I recall their assembly scheme to be quite productive, automatically interpreting mating constraints of inserted components and intuitive assembly measuring functionality. As I recall, they also had an impressive array of assemly design intent alerts where you could set a design alert such as a gear rotation or a component distance. At any time during the design process, if any of those conditions were incurred or exceeded, an alert was triggered and you were notified of the condition.

habbe, you may be thinking of another application. chriss007, is it possible that your student version is limited is some way? I don't believe you actually described what the problem you were having was. It's possible that with some help you may be able to solve the problem.

Good Luck!
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