I just want to add some variety and show some other techniques. Here I used one of the HDRI environments as the background image. Getting the lighting to match the background can be difficult, but us…
As engineers and designers, it is sometimes tempting for us to discount the value of a pretty picture. You spend all of your time establishing the geometry and attributes of the product that few unde…
How can I unalign coordinate dimensions? You will have to hold the alt key down when placing the dimension, this will start a new group.
Why does the resulting fillet of the 2D sketch comm…
There is this misconception going around that synchronous models are somehow not parametric. You can have one or the other, but not both. I suppose that’s because a lot of people equate history-based…
If you haven’t seen this yet, there’s a nice synchronous video making the rounds put together by Oliver Duncan. It hits many of the lightlights of the arguments for Synchronous Technology. If you’re …
Is there a way to find out what all of the two-letter codes are for callouts?
Yes. Go to the Callout command and select the Property Text button from the Callout Properties dialog. No…
2D drawings have been dead for 30 years, if you believed CAD salesmen in the 1980s. Most of us knew that was wrong back then. Even today, there are only a few areas where drawings are truly extinct. …
Why am I getting an error pasting clipboard geometry to its original location? In earlier versions of Solid Edge like V20 when you copied geometry to clipboard and paste it back, the copied geome…
How can I place a Detail View on a different sheet from the parent view?
You will initially need to place it on the parent view’s sheet. Then right click on the detail view and select Properties…
