SEU14 Registration and Details

So far we know that Solid Edge University 2014 will be in Atlanta on May 12-14. But today we can announce that registration starts today at this link, and that the venue will be the Westin Peachtree …

Inspire the People who Inspire You

The Solid Edge Huntsville office regularly features actual customer products in display cases in the public areas of the office. I know when I go to Huntsville, I always take some time to look at cus…

Scooter Design Challenge: Prizes for Top 10 Designs

Want to start the year off with a kick in the pants? What you need is to engage your inner child. Solid Edge is sponsoring a design contest to create a new scooter for Razor USA in conjunction with L…

What is the Real Benefit of your 3D Model?

I worked as a CAD administrator for a few years at a company that manufactured photonics instrumentation for academic research and for testing optical fiber when building out internet infrastructure …

Happy Holidays

This is the last article I’ll have on this blog until after the new year. In January, I hope to have more guest blogs, more articles on modeling, and more involvement in community improvements in the…

Does it Really Matter “How” You Do It?

I’m going to keep on working through the piano bench I started last time. When I worked with history-only CAD, I spent a lot of time worrying about “how” to do things. It mattered because how you cre…

Building Something

I decided to just build something. I’m starting simple, with a piece of furniture – a piano bench. I’m going to do as much of this as makes sense in Synchronous. I’ve probably got about 2-3 hours int…

Why Don’t You Use Synchronous?

Why Don’t You Use Synchronous?

Usually I write articles trying to answer a question, or trying to advocate for a certain point of view. But this time is different. The main thrust of this entree is to ask you, meaning Solid Edge u…

Imported Parts and Drawings

There are a lot of things I could call this article, but at its root it has to do with imported parts and drawings. The main feature I’m going to use is called Create 3D, which is perhaps a name that…