CAD in the Cloud. It’s a topic I thought I’d never return to. It’s a topic that won’t go away, although the context in which you hear about it these days is changing. I want to look at CAD in the clo…
CAD standards have come a long way in the last 30 years or so. For 2D data, standards used to be mainly about layers and colors, and font size, and how to set up a drawing so it could be printed prop…
This is the sixth post in the Automation series and the third article for Part Configurator. In retrospect: Take the First Steps to Automation Takeaway: • Getting started • Adding referenc…
The previous post on creating a programmatically configurable part used a If…Then structure to check which of the items in the list was selected by the user i.e. the SelectedIndex property of …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
