What’s New in Solid Edge 2020: Additive Manufacturing

It’s finally here. Solid Edge 2020 offers advanced additive manufacturing processes and tools to ensure 3D printed parts are created right the first time. Features from print bed orientation to physi…

Right-Click Commands in Solid Edge Part 2 – Assembly

 
Most of the unique features available in the right-click menu in the Assembly environment are in the Pathfinder.

Create Drawing of a Sub-Assembly

The foremost is the ‘C…

2D Nesting – More Than You Ever Wanted to Know

The Solid Edge 2020 portfolio has expanded again with a new manufacturing product – Solid Edge 2D Nesting.  Before we get into the details of the product, I want to spend a moment explaining the…

Right-Click Commands in Solid Edge Part 1 – User Interface

 
A right-click in Solid Edge gives access to several commands and features not found elsewhere on the menu, ribbon or the toolbars.

Right off the bat, right-clicking anywhere in an…

Dealing with Mesh Bodies in Solid Edge

Dealing with Mesh Bodies in Solid Edge
Steven Sheldon 2019

With the proliferation of 3D scanned data, it is becoming more common to have to deal with importing such data into Solid Edge….

Conversions and Transformations using the Solid Edge API – Part 4

…continued from part 3

This series of articles discusses the following:

Document Unit Conversion – ParseUnit and Format Unit methods of the UnitsOfMeasure object.
V…

Solid Edge Augmented Reality debuts at Realize Live

New augmented reality capabilites in Solid Edge made their debut at Realize Live this week. Our users were able to try out the capabilities for themselves and discuss their requirements and potential…

Finamac: possibly the coolest Solid Edge user ever!

The mission statement of Finamac, a Brazilian manufacturer of equipment for ice cream and popsicle manufacturing is that “Delicious ice cream , made with the highest quality ingredients, needs equipm…

Solid Edge 2020 offers expanded MBD capabilities

Solid Edge 2020 introduces expanded capabilities to add MBD (model based defintion) information to your designs, and publish this information using interactive 3D PDF documents. Ricky Black presented…