Just how did NURBS come to be? – by Dr. Ken Versprille

[editor]: Sometimes its easy to forget that the fathers of modern CAD walk among us. We use the tools daily, and often fail to give credit to the handful of people who made all of this possible. I wa…

Why Would You Use Virtual Components? Part 2

I’ve re-written this article 3 or 4 times as my understanding of Virtual Components (VC) has evolved. If you really want to understand this functionality, I recommend you do the tutorial starting on …

CAMWorks for Solid Edge: Solid Edge for Manufacturing, Old Insulator Stack – by Dave Ault [video]

CAMWorks for Solid Edge: Solid Edge for Manufacturing, Old Insulator Stack – by Dave Ault [video]

[Editor: This blog post was written by Dave Ault of SolidEdging, and reprinted here by permission.]

Here is an obsolete Westinghouse part that still is in service with electric utilit…

Virtual Components Part 1

I’ve been writing primarily about Solid Edge part functionality as I’ve been learning my way through the software. I haven’t covered all the functions in parts, and I’ll want to come back to write ab…

Productivity Summits 2013

Thanks to Dave Ault for reminding me of this.

The Productivity Summits are one day, free events, 8 am to 3:30 pm, held over the next few weeks at locations around the US and Canada….

Who moved my cheese? (Solid Edge ST6 help and training)

To summarize
Solid Edge ST6 user assistance combines help + training into one collection on the web. With web help and training, you get:

A new Solid Edge Help home page that prov…

ST6: How do You Use the New Interface Customizations?

Sixteen years ago when I changed from AutoCAD/Mechanical Desktop to SolidWorks, my main advice for other people making the same change was to simply forget everything they thought they knew about CAD…

Working with Units and Standards in Solid Edge

For those of you outside of the US, Monday was Labor Day, which kind of demarks the end of summer. So my usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule has been disrupted a little. I’ll be back on track next…

ST6: Synchronous Delete

Let’s say that you imported a part from SolidWorks. Maybe that part looks like this to the right. The part has lots of rounds on it. If you are used to working with history-based modelers, getting a …