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Maker Faire, Ali Kermani, and Solid Edge Together

July 18, 2014

If you’re within driving range of Detroit in the next week, you might consider going to the Detroit Maker Faire. It’s held July 26-27 at the Henry Ford museum, which is a destination in itself. You m…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Synchronous Technology and Interoperability

July 16, 2014

Interoperability has been a thorny issue for people who work in multi-CAD environments ever since the second CAD system was developed. CAD users are typically technical people, and we tend to roll ou…

By MLombard
2 MIN READ

The Reach of Your CAD Tools

July 15, 2014

Solid Edge has always had a great reputation for drawings and sheet metal. Even in my days stumping for competitive products, we always respected the advantages users said that they found in Solid Ed…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Automation: Part Configurator

July 14, 2014

This article takes technique learnt in the previous post a step ahead and shows how to configure a Solid Edge model so its variants can be generated programmatically.

The earlier arti…

By Tushar Suradkar
6 MIN READ
ST7: Duplicate Components

ST7: Duplicate Components

July 10, 2014

There’s a lot of assembly functionality in ST7 that has been kind of skipped over, or hasn’t had the attention it might deserve. There’s a new tool called Duplicate Components that is super powerful,…

By MLombard
< 1 MIN READ

Solid Edge Automation via IIS

July 10, 2014

  Automating Solid Edge from a web application can be challenging. Many have tried, many have failed (including me). In the following video, I dive head first into the common issues a…

By jnewell
< 1 MIN READ
What Is the Most Anticipated Enhancement in ST7?

What Is the Most Anticipated Enhancement in ST7?

July 8, 2014

It’s July, and in Solid Edge land, July means new release time. I’ve been trying to show some of the new features in the new release, as well as some of the Solid Edge University presentations talkin…

By MLombard
< 1 MIN READ

Automation – Parametric Parts

July 7, 2014

This post introduces the most common and sought after use of automation in Solid Edge – creating and controlling Parametric Parts via an external program.

Using the Solid Edge API it is ea…

By Tushar Suradkar
6 MIN READ

SEU14 video: Design Organic Shapes from 3D Scans

July 7, 2014

Using 3D scanned data to create parts with complex shapes is some of the most difficult work I’ve ever done. So I attended this session at Solid Edge University. Ricardo Espinosa from Kimball Interna…

By MLombard
< 1 MIN READ