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3D Geometry API – A Gentle Introduction

Among tangible or visible geometric elements, the prominently accessed collections in a Part or Sheetmetal document are the Features, Sketches, Profiles, PMI and the Reference Planes. The most sought…

Webinar replay: Creating beautiful visualizations of your designs

Watch a new webinar replay that has some great tips on how to create beautiful rendered images of your products. We hear from many Solid Edge users that their sales and marketing departme…

Solid Edge Generative Design – watch the new webinar replay!

A replay of a new webinar on generative design is now available on Engineering.com (registration is required). The webinar starts with some interesting survey data and insights from industr…

Teach an Old (CAM) Dog New (CAD) Tricks

I know CAM. In fact, it’s fair to say that when someone within the Solid Edge organization has a CAM question, they probably end up talking to me. But for CAD?Let’s just say I’m not first on a…

The Myriad of Solid Edge File Properties APIs

Accessing Solid Edge document properties to either read or modify is the most common activity performed on Solid Edge documents apart from when manipulating the content of the document itself.
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How to Use the SEDraftX Control in a WPF Application

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Designers who use custom programs for automating their routine design tasks that also need to interact with Solid Edge are constantly exploring newer platforms like the .Net b…

Solid Edge 2D Drafting – now views 3D files!

I hate to start a blog post with “one of the little known features in Solid Edge ST10 is…” but one capability we added and need to shout to the rooftops about is the new capability to view 3D files i…

New Greenpower F24 Spilt Chassis Kit

The new Greenpower F24 kit has arrived! For those of you not familiar with Greenpower, it’s a program dedicated to promoting engineering and technology to students from ages 9 to 25. As part…

MBD Tools in Solid Edge

Are you part of an organization which does not believe in saving time, money and energy in particular or resources in general? sounds freakish, right? You can easily tell if this is happening around …