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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

CAMWorks on the job training: – by Michael Buchli

September 24, 2013

[editor]: This article was guest written by Michael Buchli, author of The CAMWorks Guide. Michael has worked for CAD resellers, but is now working in industry. Thanks to Michael for submitting this a…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ
Why you should consider using Simulation

Why you should consider using Simulation

September 23, 2013

Virtual testing
If you are involved in the manufacture and testing of prototypes, then you know just how costly and time consuming this method of design verification can be. Finite element analysis…

By AlRobertson
2 MIN READ

Data Migration Tools

September 19, 2013

The next series of blog articles that I’m putting together is again based on a request, and again, something that sounds simple on paper turns into a bigger project when you see it in the light of da…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

New Whitepaper: Solid Edge customers give their views on SharePoint based design management

September 19, 2013

A new whitepaper from independent research firm Tech-Clarity shows how Solid Edge users are using SharePoint based design management software to get control of their CAD files and related documents. …

By DavidChadwick
< 1 MIN READ