Out of the Box Tools for Solid Edge

 
If you don’t know already, Solid Edge ships with over 2 dozen programs and utilities which can be readily used in various scenarios in daily work. Moreover, the full source code is made av…

Reverse Engineering Tutorial in Solid Edge Part 2 – Deep Dive

…continued from part 1

Step 6 – Extracting Treatment Feature Data

The intention of the reverse engineering process is to extract a high-level overall form of the object and it…

Reverse Engineering Tutorial Part 1 – Get Your Feet Wet

A few weeks back an article on reverse engineering appeared in the community blog and got a great response, followed by another inquiry on the forum about a beginner tutorial on this topic.
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Adding Metadata to Solid Edge Objects Using the API

 
Textual information in the form of metadata can be added in Solid Edge in various ways:

File Properties – can be added and accessed both manually and programmatically.
Bl…

Steering Wheel – The Gateway to Synchronous Modeling

 
The previous article discussed ‘advanced’ techniques on Steering Wheel but also listed the following basic techniques:

Move the steering wheel where you want it by the o…

What’s New in Solid Edge CAM Pro

In a previous blog post, we introduced you to Solid Edge CAM Pro.  Now, we can talk about What’s New in the product.  For clarity, I will be referring to some features from a previous relea…

Techniques to Use Solid Edge Features to the Fullest

 
Prolog

Last month Solid Edge University was organised as part of the bigger Siemens PLM Connection event in Phoenix, Arizona and the temperature outdoors soared past 100 F. People…

Solid Edge 2019 – What’s in it for me?

Our Solid Edge customers come from a huge variety of industries and are often the leaders in their industry sector or segment. This blog looks at the Solid Edge 2019 release from the perspective of o…

Solid Edge History – V6 to V10

…continued from previous part V1 to V5

Version 6

Released in December 1998 and using Parasolid 10.0, this version added ability to create add-ins which were external program t…