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It Looks Like Cheating, but Feels Oooh, Sooo Good: ST6 Synchronous Boolean

What is this, has Matt turned to writing bad country songs? Maybe a hedonist manifesto? No, it’s not any of that. It’s just a confession. Like most long-time history-based CAD users, I have an overac…

Using STL to 3D Print in Solid Edge

Those of you that follow me on twitter or Google + likely know I have a few home projects running around 3D printing.  Many of you have high end Stratasys or 3D Systems machi…

Boxx 4150xt Compact Tower Review

I’ve owned a computer from Boxx Technologies before, and I know they are really well built computers, so when the opportunity to review one came up, I jumped at the chance. The previous machine from …

Creating Animations in Solid Edge

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…

In-Context Editing, Synchronous Style

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…

Making Edits to Migrated Parts

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…

Solid Edge Mobile Viewer now for All Android (4.0 and up)

When th e Solid Edge Mobile Viewer for Android was first released, it was only intended for Android tablets. A discussion on the Solid Edge Community Forum (now into its 6 th page) turned into a de…

On the Edge Returns

The On The Edge blog is becoming active again. The main audience of that blog will be non-Solid Edge users, to act as an outreach tool, however everyone from expert to the simply curious are welcome….

Mating Parts in the Engine

When we left our engineer friend last week, he was starting to work on the engine of his pressure washer, but it was such a mess in his old CAD software that he just decided to open it up in Solid Ed…