PathFinder: Info and Control Center for your Parts

Early on, when I first started using Solid Edge, the PathFinder became a thing of instant interest. There are all sorts of things that show up there. You can find dimensions, sketches, bodies, materi…

Configuring Teamcenter BOM to Display Structure Based on Solid Edge Assembly Occurrence Properties

In this article we review how to configure Teamcenter and the Solid Edge Embedded Client such that the Teamcenter BOM structure when displayed in the Teamcenter RAC and Visualization resembles the So…

Built-in design management capabilities in Solid Edge – what is your experience?

Maybe because I work in the marketing team my work typically focuses on the add-on solutions we offer for design management – but Solid Edge has many excellent built-in design management capabilities…

Where is the “never add any relation without my permission” button?

This question recently showed up in the forums, and without hijacking the thread, I thought the best way to respond to it was here. I’m guessing that it was intended as rhetorical snark, but in this …

Virtual Mentoring From Siemens PLM

Virtual Mentoring From Siemens PLM

A pilot group of 10 high school classrooms participating in the Southern Regional Education Board’s (SREB) Advanced Career (AC) curriculum is tapping into new expertise via “virtual mentors” from ind…

Understand the Solution Manager

The Solution Manager helps you sort out which relationships are causing a particular edit to not work as expected. It also helps you visualize different solutions to the problem by analyzing the erro…

Tiny Home, Big Idea

Tiny homes are very popular these days, that siren call urging us to shrug off the trappings of life that tie us down in upkeep.  But for some people, a tiny home represents UP-sizing, not down-…

Students with electric dreams at the heart of Motorsport Valley

Motorsport Valley is a term often used to describe a geographic region in the UK which some consider to be the global centre for motorsport.  To help support this claim an astonishing&…

Solid Edge and Windows 10

Microsoft has been very aggressive about the Windows 10 upgrade. If you are on a managed corporate install, you might not see it, but on my personal computer, I get several reminders a week that it’s…