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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Is there a way to find out what all of the two-letter codes are for callouts?
Yes. Go to the Callout command and select the Property Text button from the Callout Properties dialog. No…
If you haven’t seen my previous posts on this topic, they are here, here, and here.
Now that I have some experience with 3D Printing, I can lay out the process in more detail. First,…
