I’ve mentioned before that I thought that many Solid Edge models don’t exactly represent themselves as well as they might visually. The software is really aimed at mechanical design, so this is to be…
I’m going to keep on working through the piano bench I started last time. When I worked with history-only CAD, I spent a lot of time worrying about “how” to do things. It mattered because how you cre…
I decided to just build something. I’m starting simple, with a piece of furniture – a piano bench. I’m going to do as much of this as makes sense in Synchronous. I’ve probably got about 2-3 hours int…
There are a lot of things I could call this article, but at its root it has to do with imported parts and drawings. The main feature I’m going to use is called Create 3D, which is perhaps a name that…
The last sheet metal features we talked about were the Gusset and Louver. These are features that don’t require sketches. The ones we’re going to talk about today are the Dimple and the Drawn Cutout,…
Solid Edge has a wealth of built-in secondary sheet metal features that are sure to make your life easier if you use them. There’s a lot to show here, so let’s just get started. All of these tools ar…
The next stop on our tour of the sheet metal functions in Solid Edge is the Hem tool.
Hem is just meant to fold over the edges of parts usually for safety, aesthetic, or strength issues. …
There were some comments at the end of the last article, and I started to answer them in the comments, but the response quickly became too big to handle as just a comment, so I’m making a mini-articl…
Last time we had just made a flange on a simple part. This time, let’s take a look at some of the flange options.
Partial Flange One of the options is Partial Flange.The Partial F…
