Solid Edge Synergy – Distance Sensors

Synergy is the interaction of multiple elements to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects. The term comes from the Greek word synergos, meaning ‘working together’. This…

Solid Edge Easter Egg and Stuff Under the Hood

This year Sunday, 20-April was Easter Sunday and I was relaxing after helping out my 11-year old with school assignment which involved creating a decorative chart on the topic of ‘Easter Sunday’ depi…

Getting Ready for Solid Edge University

Getting Ready for Solid Edge University

Solid Edge University is just over a week away, and there’s still time if you want to sign up. But for those of you who are sure you’re going, you need to go through the agenda and decide which sessi…

Changes Around the Community

Changes Around the Community

You might notice that some changes have already taken place, and in the future, there will be more.

Q&A areas will be merged into the Forums. We are still going to provide an area to…

Nested Dimple – A Workaround

This article discusses a Solid Edge workflow to create stepped deep drawn sheetmetal parts that are typically created with a double-acting press.

Normally the Dimple command is used for th…

Downunder Blunder Contest

We’ve been doing our best to invite people to Solid Edge University, so now that you’re coming, we’d like to help you have some fun and maybe gain some notoriety while youre there.

Rick Ma…

Mill-Turn Capability in CAMWorks for Solid Edge

CAMWorks for Solid Edge not only supports traditional turning, but it also supports mill-turn machines (aka multi-function machines).  A typical mill-turn machine can perform traditional turning…

CAMWorks TechDB

CAMWorks TechDB

CAMWorks for Solid Edge does a great job of automated machining of prismatic geometry.  With Automated Feature Recognition (AFR), features of various sizes and shapes are recognized for machinin…

Alternate Reality: 51 uses of the ALT key in Solid Edge

This post is one of the topics suggested by Matt in Got a Story to Tell? Get Into SEU14 for Free! and discusses the many uses of the Alt key in Solid Edge.

Straight off the bat the first…