CAD standards have come a long way in the last 30 years or so. For 2D data, standards used to be mainly about layers and colors, and font size, and how to set up a drawing so it could be printed prop…
This is the sixth post in the Automation series and the third article for Part Configurator. In retrospect: Take the First Steps to Automation Takeaway: • Getting started • Adding referenc…
The previous post on creating a programmatically configurable part used a If…Then structure to check which of the items in the list was selected by the user i.e. the SelectedIndex property of …
This article takes technique learnt in the previous post a step ahead and shows how to configure a Solid Edge model so its variants can be generated programmatically.
The earlier arti…
This post introduces the most common and sought after use of automation in Solid Edge – creating and controlling Parametric Parts via an external program.
Using the Solid Edge API it is ea…
This is just for fun but not simply icon guessing, If you have a clue icon for Physical properties, the word could be Physical, Properties, Mass, Volume, Area, Density, Material, etc.
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One of the biggest challenges of automating Solid Edge (for me at least) is the sheer size of the API. SDK documentation and examples are nice but these are static views of the API. What wou…
Calculating area of a 3D surface or that enclosed by a set of 2D entities is not an activity that one performs too often when designing with Solid Edge. However what is intriguing about the Area comm…
Work from memory to complete this Solid Edge crossword. The real challenge lies in not referring Solid Edge or the Help documentation to guess the words.
Across 3. Swept…
