Solid Edge User Group at Huntsville

I don’t get to the Huntsville office too frequently, but I’ve been lucky that several times when I have been here, they were having a local Solid Edge user group meeting. Aside from Solid Edge Un…

Large Assemblies Part 2: Other Considerations

Another common source of performance problems comes from networks. The speed of your network is a separate issue that I won’t address here. That’s more of an IT infrastructure issue. But there are th…

Student Spotlight: Kyle Crowder

Kyle Crowder, a senior at Fountain Lake High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas, is learning valuable skills as part of the project-based learning initiative led by Toby Craver.  Learn first-hand h…

Reviewing what calls your Partner has submitted to GTAC under your company name

In a recent forum post, there was a discussion about how as an end customer receiving support directly from a Partner [VAR], it was not possible to see what calls the Partner had submitted to GTAC un…

Large Assembly Techniques for Performance

“Large assemblies” is a term that means different things to different people. If the number or complexity of parts in your assembly poses a performance problem to your computer/hardware/network, then…

Easy 3D printing from Solid Edge

In Solid Edge ST7 we added a new command “Print using Microsoft 3D Builder” – a direct way to output a Solid Edge part or assembly model to a 3D Printer – but this may have been overlooked by so…

Assembly PathFinder Part 2: Tools and Techniques

In the previous article, we dealt mostly with settings and symbols that you use with the PathFinder. Here we will look at the available tools and techniques that you can use to manage and edit th…

Assembly PathFinder Part1: Settings and Symbols

You can’t get the most out of Solid Edge without knowing the assembly PathFinder pretty thoroughly. A lot of the tools will be obvious, things like mousing over items and they highlight in the graphi…

Identifying API Changes

I always try to make it a habit to read the readme.txt for each release of Solid Edge. Specifically, I’m looking at the API section to see what problem reports (PR) got fixed. Today I was reading thr…