Interview with Doug Stainbrook, Field Support Trainer

Doug Stainbrook was one of the first people I met on the inside of Solid Edge, six or seven years ago. He was the guy who had the job of demonstrating brand new technology (Synchronous Technology) to…

Two Ways You Can Support Solid Edge and Have Fun at the Same Time

One of the really great things about the CAD industry is that when it is working right, the industry and its customers support one another. Inudstry makes software that users apply to their businesse…

Windows 10 Preview Now Available

Windows 10? What happened to Windows 9? Ralph Grabowski’s WorldCAD Acess blog includes an anecdote in today’s article on how Windows 10 became Windows 10 instead of Windows 9.

If you’ve go…

Interview with Melissa Schultz: Converting a Company to Synchronous

Melissa Schultz is a CAD admin who has lead her 70 some Solid Edge users through a transition to Synchronous. She gave a standing room-only presentation at Solid Edge University 2014 that has continu…

Custom Linetypes and Hatch Patterns Part 2

The previous article discussed creating custom line types using a simple combination of dash, dots and gaps represented by numbers.

This post takes it ahead by arranging multiple line…

SEU14: VIDEO: Fred Menage demonstrates Parametric Assemblies

Making parametric changes within a Solid Edge assembly is one of the questions Synchronous non-believers ask about frequently. In this video, Frederic Menage of DesignFusion in Montreal demonstrates …

What Annoys History-based Users?

On a CAD blog I recently found an article bemoaning problems people have with their CAD systems. Somehow it devolved from a cynical yet rhetorical “survey” of sorts into a set of serious answers from…

Interview with Dan Staples

Since your promotion to VP of Development for Mainstream Engineering a few months ago, how have your daily duties changed?

I spend more time interacting with the sales and marketing functi…

Hiring Contractors

Hiring an unknown contractor to do work for your engineering organization can be nervewracking. Picking the wrong person can waste precious time and resources. If you pay too little, you might get so…