Designing lighter, stronger products with generative design

Generative Design accelerates the creation of lighter components perfectly suited for manufacturing, supplementing powerful design tools with topology optimization.

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Tips and Tricks from Forum Users #23

Here’s a new year collection of the most interesting tips and tricks based on the discussions in the Solid Edge forum.  Due credit is given to respective contributors.

Better Requirements Management: An Immediate Payback

Did you know that 9.9% of every dollar spent on projects is wasted due to poor project performance?

Requirements Management Is Critical to Project Success
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Notes from the field: Solid Edge Pune User Meet December 2018

We had another great session of the Solid Edge User Meet held in Pune last month on December 3. Read about our previous user meet and the insights gained during that session.

We wer…

Student Design Contest Winner December 2018

Congratulations to sophomore @RobertSchicklin who is studying Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville! Robert is the December winner of our monthly student design contest hos…

The Never Do List of Solid Edge Modeling and Drafting Practices

 
There is no dearth of best practices out there when using Solid Edge. Some of these are implemented as part of the company standards, while others come through self-discipline.
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An example of literal “Reverse Engineering” using Solid Edge

An example of literal “Reverse Engineering” using Solid Edge
Steve Sheldon, December 2018

At the start of the American Civil War there was a great shortage of weapons, for both the North…

A Creative Take on Generative Design & 3D Printing

When you think of applications for 3D printing, men’s fashion is probably not the first thing to come to mind. That’s the great thing about innovation though – it is often unexpected. 

Adding Metadata to Solid Edge Objects Using the API

 
Textual information in the form of metadata can be added in Solid Edge in various ways:

File Properties – can be added and accessed both manually and programmatically.
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