Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Sentimentality doesn’t often fly on a professional and technical blog, but in the end, behind the other concerns, Thanksgiving is one holiday that everybody has a stake in. I want to take this opport…

Secondary Sheet Metal Features: Dimple, Drawn Cutout and Bead

The last sheet metal features we talked about were the Gusset and Louver. These are features that don’t require sketches. The ones we’re going to talk about today are the Dimple and the Drawn Cutout,…

Secondary Sheet Metal Features: Louvers and Gussets

Solid Edge has a wealth of built-in secondary sheet metal features that are sure to make your life easier if you use them. There’s a lot to show here, so let’s just get started. All of these tools ar…

Sheet Metal Tour: Hems

The next stop on our tour of the sheet metal functions in Solid Edge is the Hem tool.

Hem is just meant to fold over the edges of parts usually for safety, aesthetic, or strength issues.

More Corner Detail

There were some comments at the end of the last article, and I started to answer them in the comments, but the response quickly became too big to handle as just a comment, so I’m making a mini-articl…

Sheet Metal Reliefs and Corners

Last time we had just made a flange on a simple part. This time, let’s take a look at some of the flange options.

Partial Flange
One of the options is Partial Flange.The Partial F…

Sheet metal intro

This article will start a series on Solid Edge sheet metal. My goal is to go through the functions to give new users a taste for how it works, but also try to find tools that really go beyond where w…

Inspect Tools: Smart Measure

When I asked for suggestions for blog topics, one that came back was for an article on the Inspect Tools. It has taken a while, but I’m finally getting around to fulfilling that request.

It …

View Orientation Tools

One of the sets of tools I haven’t covered yet, and indeed I don’t understand very well yet is the set of Orient tools. I was a master of view orientation in a previous life, and the knowledge I had …