ST6: Emboss

The Emboss feature in ST6 may be a sleeper, but I’m pretty sure there are going to be a few of you that realize what a beautiful thing this turns out to be. The first thing that’s really great about …

Handy Tool for Off-The-Shelf Parts in Your Design

Back in m y day (as my kids have started calling anything that predates them), finding motors, connectors, pumps,  springs or any other part I might buy off the shelf to use in my design was a …

What is the Best Way to Use Synchronous Technology

With this blog post, I’m really aiming at three audiences: 1) long-time Solid Edge users who are comfortable with traditional history-based modeling and haven’t yet incorporated Synchronous methods, …

KeyShot Live Linking in ST6

Most of us are in the business of making things and all of us want our products to reflect the hard work we’ve put into them.  With ST6 and the new KeyShot plugin you can now make beautiful rend…

Review of Resilient Modeling

In June at Solid Edge University, I went to a session led by a guy named Dick Gebhard that dealt with Solid Edge best practices and a number of other ideas. Evan Yares has written a few articles&nbsp…

ST6: Four New or Improved Surface Features

The propeller image in the teaser for this article is just a teaser for something you’re going to see later on from someone else. I’m gaining experience with the new and old features in Solid Edge by…

2013 Productivity Summit Series

Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Sign up for the free one-day seminar, and you get the lunch with a whole lot more!

If you couldn’t make it to Solid Edge University, or you …

Solid Edge ST6 Released and Available for Download

There have been a fair number of questions about when Solid Edge ST6 would be announced. I’m just getting on the distriburion lists around here, and although this news is a week old, some of you may …

ST6: Splines and Keypoint Curves

Spline Control

Splines are an integral tool when it comes to swoopy product design. For many users who are accustomed to more prismatic designs, splines can be a frighteningly uncontrolled…