Tips & Tricks

Assembly PathFinder Part1: Settings and Symbols

You can’t get the most out of Solid Edge without knowing the assembly PathFinder pretty thoroughly. A lot of the tools will be obvious, things like mousing over items and they highlight in the graphi…

PathFinder: Info and Control Center for your Parts

Early on, when I first started using Solid Edge, the PathFinder became a thing of instant interest. There are all sorts of things that show up there. You can find dimensions, sketches, bodies, materi…

Understand the Solution Manager

The Solution Manager helps you sort out which relationships are causing a particular edit to not work as expected. It also helps you visualize different solutions to the problem by analyzing the erro…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #14

1) Why does the Quick View Cube not display when Application Display is set to Basic?
If the Application Display option is set to “Graphics Card Driven – Basic” within the Solid Edge Options> Vi…

Solid Edge Academic Licensing Tips

So you’ve registered for the product, downloaded the setup, and installed Solid Edge.  You’re super excited to start modeling, but you can’t seem to activate your license.  Here are the mos…

Building the Podracer Model

I sometimes get questions about methods I’ve used to make certain models. My recent podracer for the rendering contest was one of those models.

I need to start by saying that this m…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #13

Why are my dimensions placing as driven on my Synchronous sketches? In the Relate section of the Home tab, make sure the “Maintain Relationships” button is Selected.

Why am I getting Error…

Step Draft

Every now and then, I pick a topic that needs a little research and blog about it. Yes, maybe it’s a little obscure, but maybe it’s something you didn’t know about before and now you do. This topic c…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #12

Where can I find the toggle for sketch relationship colors in synchronous mode? You can find this under “Inspect/Evaluate Group/Relationship Colors”.

How can I dimension using metric units…