If you are an engineer reproducing Industrial Designer stuff, one of the first things you have to do is understand curvature. It’s a different language, and a different way of thinking about geometry…
In the same way that it’s unfair to say “engineers aren’t creative”, it’s probably also unfair to try to lump all Industrial Designers into the same mold. I’ve worked with ID folks who could not do 3…
In ST7 we have introduced numerous enhancements to the Offset Face Relate command.
Offset to faces with parallel normals Prior to ST7, you could only establish an Offset Face…
I had the misfortune a few years back to hear a colleague proclaim at a dinner with about 15 design process professionals in attendance that engineers were not creative people. I can be hot tempered …
In continuation of my Solid Edge ST7 AddIn Architecture Overview article, I just published a new article, Solid Edge ST7 AddIn in C++. This article is programming language spec…
Imre Szucs is known by many names around the Solid Edge universe, but everyone knows him as an inexhaustable fountain of ideas and knowledge. I’ve met him at a couple of Solid Edge Universities, and …
While we’re on the topic of abstraction from my previous post, let’s carry it further to simulation. About 15 years ago or so if I’m remembering correctly, we had a movement called the “Up Front” mov…
Today I want to pay homage to two geniuses of the CAD world that no one has ever met before. In fact, we don’t even know who they are. I call them Um and Ug. Um and Ug were hunters who lived before t…
By most measures ST7 has been a great success. They’ve added great new functions, and most of all, it’s all relevant to users. It’s not just magic that enables Solid Edge to consistently pick winners…
