Sheet metal intro

This article will start a series on Solid Edge sheet metal. My goal is to go through the functions to give new users a taste for how it works, but also try to find tools that really go beyond where w…

View Orientation Tools

One of the sets of tools I haven’t covered yet, and indeed I don’t understand very well yet is the set of Orient tools. I was a master of view orientation in a previous life, and the knowledge I had …

Opposite-Handed Parts and Drawings

For this blog article, I admit, I’ve borrowed an idea from Dan Staples. About 6 months ago, a user was asking a question on the forum about how to make a mirrored part and a mirrored draft from the o…

Live Rules and the Solution Manager

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…

Synchronous Technology and Live Rules

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…

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…

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…

Multi-Body Modeling Part 3: How to Make Multiple Bodies

Making multiple bodies in a single part is easy. Here are a few methods for doing it:

Disjoint Solids

When you create solid regions that don’t touch one another, these are calle…

ST6: Emboss

The Emboss feature in ST6 may be a sleeper, but I’m pretty sure there are going to be a few of you that realize what a beautiful thing this turns out to be. The first thing that’s really great about …