Variables in Solid Edge are intuitively easy to use. As a former SolidWorks guy, Solid Edge Variables simplify things immensely (link values, equations, global variables, variables, etc in SW) and at…
Solid Edge University is coming up quickly, and it’s a couple of weeks earlier than last year. It will probably also be bigger than last year. Being in Atlanta should make it easier for people to get…
Want to have input into the future of Solid Edge? Dan Staples and the development team want to hear from you. They’ve put together the annual Solid Edge User Survey which will be used to develop enha…
I haven’t written at all about Solid Edge support. Just today I had the opportunity to call the GTAC (Global Technical Access Center) people about a support issue. I was having some difficulty applyi…
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…
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,…
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…
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. …
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…
