Solid Edge Easter Egg and Stuff Under the Hood

This year Sunday, 20-April was Easter Sunday and I was relaxing after helping out my 11-year old with school assignment which involved creating a decorative chart on the topic of ‘Easter Sunday’ depi…

Nested Dimple – A Workaround

This article discusses a Solid Edge workflow to create stepped deep drawn sheetmetal parts that are typically created with a double-acting press.

Normally the Dimple command is used for th…

Alternate Reality: 51 uses of the ALT key in Solid Edge

This post is one of the topics suggested by Matt in Got a Story to Tell? Get Into SEU14 for Free! and discusses the many uses of the Alt key in Solid Edge.

Straight off the bat the first…

The Normal Protrusion and Cutout

A closely competing software to Solid Edge in its latest avatar 2015 introduced Normal Cutout. This reminds yet another time how Solid Edge has been years ahead of competition in several fields.
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Using CAMWorks for Solid Edge

I want to use this post to address the basic operation of CAMWorks for Solid Edge.  At its core the product uses built-in intelligence to recognize several different types of prismatic features …

VB in the Variable Table – Sky’s the Limit

The Variable Table in Solid Edge supports VBScript functions. This presents endless possibilities for users who are not programmers in the strictest sense of the word but have a rudimentary understan…

Surfacing: Techniques from the Trenches

Solid Edge surfacing is an area which can be conquered only by getting your hands dirty. There is no way mastering it by marveling at designs created by others or by reverse engineering it i…

Solid Edge Windows Integration

Last September, VP of Development for Mainstream Engineering Dan Staples commented in a discussion. I appreciate the tenacity and also what said: Solid Edge is very “Windows Native” and this cons…

The 10 Golden Rules of Solid Modeling

Even as synchronous modeling makes great strides with each new release of Solid Edge, I thought of taking a hint from Matt Lombard’s following quote in his very useful guidelines for blog authors. …