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Simplifying Parts and Assemblies

March 21, 2016

Creating Simplified parts and assemblies is one of the steps in making large assemblies that are easy to work with.  The processes for simplified parts and simplified assemblies are different, s…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Large Assemblies Part 2: Other Considerations

February 12, 2016

Another common source of performance problems comes from networks. The speed of your network is a separate issue that I won’t address here. That’s more of an IT infrastructure issue. But there are th…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Large Assembly Techniques for Performance

February 2, 2016

“Large assemblies” is a term that means different things to different people. If the number or complexity of parts in your assembly poses a performance problem to your computer/hardware/network, then…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Assembly PathFinder Part 2: Tools and Techniques

January 25, 2016

In the previous article, we dealt mostly with settings and symbols that you use with the PathFinder. Here we will look at the available tools and techniques that you can use to manage and edit th…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Assembly PathFinder Part1: Settings and Symbols

January 21, 2016

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…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

PathFinder: Info and Control Center for your Parts

January 15, 2016

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…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Understand the Solution Manager

December 11, 2015

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…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #14

December 3, 2015

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…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Solid Edge Academic Licensing Tips

December 2, 2015

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…

By Melanie_Baeske
2 MIN READ