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Schematic Diagrams in Solid Edge

October 28, 2013

Schematic diagrams are one of the purely 2D functions that make Solid Edge such a full-featured CAD program. There are a lot of people who use one program for 3D and another one for 2D. With Solid Ed…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Solution Manager: Up Close and Personal

October 23, 2013

Last week, right at the buzzer (4:45 pm on Friday), Chris Dayton, the man at the levers behind the curtains of Live Rules, agreed to talk to me and answer my questions. Special thanks to Chris for hi…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Live Rules and the Solution Manager

October 20, 2013

In the last article you got a good primer for how some of the simple functions of Live Rules work. I made a mistake and corrected it where I was talking about the colors of the squares on the Live Ru…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Synchronous Technology and Live Rules

October 17, 2013

Solid Edge provides no end of potential topics for blog articles. Finding a topic I like is not a difficulty. Narrowing it down to just one idea is probably the hardest part. The next hardest part is…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Assemblies

October 16, 2013

When you work on a Solid Edge assembly, you can move parts that are under constrained. So if a rotational degree of freedom is left  undefined, you can rotate that part while all of the other ma…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Parts

October 14, 2013

The documentation group for just about any software rarely gets good news in public, but there are a couple of things I want to point out before moving forward with the rest of this article. The firs…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Creating Animations in Solid Edge

October 4, 2013

I hope you have been following this pressure washer series, and that you are finding mating parts and creating motion as easy as I’ve found it. This series of articles started with the idea that I wo…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

In-Context Editing, Synchronous Style

October 2, 2013

For those of you who are keeping track of our journey with the pressure washer assembly, we started out by migrating it into Solid Edge from Works. Then we checked out how many of the mates came acro…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Making Edits to Migrated Parts

September 30, 2013

Maybe you noticed that a blog written in third person starts out kind of cool, but the novelty wears off somewhere in the second article. So our story is gonna switch. The engineer that has been work…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ