Interview with Art Patrick, Solid Edge Assemblies Master

With ST7 just releasing for public consumption, I thought it would be appropriate to interview some of the people that make this software happen. Even though a lot of the enhancements are inspired by…

Automation in the Draft Environment: Layer Handling

For those who have done some LISP programming for old generation CAD programs, coding was fun. LISP punched lots of power in few keywords or lines. Moreover the commands could be issued to the CAD pr…

The Secret Language of Surface Design

Dan Staples asked me to call some attention to a surfacing presentation that was made at Solid Edge University 2013 by a French company called SEB. SEB designs and manufactures a lot of small applian…

Become the Face of Solid Edge

Would you like to see your company’s name in lights? Would you want to see your work showcased by Siemens publicly? Would you like a free license of Solid Edge software for your business?

SEACAD.ini – Under the Hood

This might be old hat to many of you, but for those this is new, here’s a quick run through the various ‘undocumented’ settings in the SEACAD.ini file.

About the SEACAD.ini File

Solid Edge ST7 Released

This is fresh off the presses, or at least fresh from my inbox. Laura Watson has said that ST7 will be ready for customer download by early next week, and that English DVDs (107.00.00.104) should beg…

The Old and the New

In a previous article I wrote about how some aspects of our current ideas about the cloud are actually (in part anyway) resurrections of much older IT methods. It turns out that modern computing is b…

Automation: Parametric Assemblies

This article builds on the knowledge gained in the previous post Parametric Parts which discussed how to parametric parts by changing the values of part variables.

It is also possible to a…

Community: Who Needs It?

I’ve been involved in on-line communities for engineers since 1997. The old usenet news groups put the Wild Wild West in the www//:. It was raw, it was unruly, but more than any of that, it was engin…