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Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #9

May 12, 2015

How can I turn the centerlines off in a view? There is no single button to turn off all center lines at one time. However you can create a query to find and select all centerlines, then uncheck the S…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Detail Makes Your Keyshot Rendering More Believable

May 8, 2015

I just want to add some variety and show some other techniques. Here I used one of the HDRI environments as the background image. Getting the lighting to match the background can be difficult, but us…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Understanding Keyshot Backgrounds

May 4, 2015

As engineers and designers, it is sometimes tempting for us to discount the value of a pretty picture. You spend all of your time establishing the geometry and attributes of the product that few unde…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Quick response to late-stage design changes

May 1, 2015

No one needs to tell you how busy you are—you know how busy you are…when you work through lunch (again), stay at your desk much later than you had planned (again), and push off that vacation (again…

By Erin Daly
2 MIN READ

Solid Edge Rendering Contest Starts NOW!

April 29, 2015

This has been in the works for a while, and I’m excited that it’s finally here. A monthly Solid Edge/Keyshot Rendering Contest! Download the model, set up your scene and render settings, then submit …

By MLombard
< 1 MIN READ

Solid Edge Community Celebrates 19 Years of Solid Edge

April 23, 2015

Solid Edge celebrated the 19th anniversary of its first release yesterday. Here is the initial splash screen from the first version

It just happened that there were several of us at…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #8

April 20, 2015

How can I unalign coordinate dimensions? You will have to hold the alt key down when placing the dimension, this will start a new group.

Why does the resulting fillet of the 2D sketch comm…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Synchronous AND Parametric

April 15, 2015

There is this misconception going around that synchronous models are somehow not parametric. You can have one or the other, but not both. I suppose that’s because a lot of people equate history-based…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Nice Synchronous Technology Video

April 10, 2015

If you haven’t seen this yet, there’s a nice synchronous video making the rounds put together by Oliver Duncan. It hits many of the lightlights of the arguments for Synchronous Technology. If you’re …

By MLombard
< 1 MIN READ