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Engineering Edge: great resource for thermal and fluid flow analysis

If you have any heat dissipation issues to solve in your designs, or you need to understand better how fluids flow inside or around your designs you may be interested in Engineering Edge, a publicati…

3D Rendering Tutorial: How to Create Internal Lighting (Solid Edge and KeyShot)

When creating a 3D rendering in Solid Edge, how do you create internal lighting? I was recently asked by a colleague how to go about adding an interior emitting light INSIDE of a model in KeySh…

Strike it Rich with the PathFinder

Everyone wants to find a hidden treasure. Just imagine walking around in the woods and stumbling across a treasure chest of pure gold guinea coins. Pirates hid them all the time, sunken ships hold en…

3D Sketching: The future of sketching in CAD

In mechanical CAD, sketching is the basis for creating 3D models. Now, there are exceptions e.g. using synchronous technology in Solid Edge, you may not need sketching at all if the model is made up …

UI Grudges Put to Rest – The Radial Menu

Change is inevitable but growth is optional. Sometimes change comes hurling at us, completely unexpectedly. I don’t want to open old wounds but Edgers from all walks of design were caustic when Solid…

Editing Directly is not Direct Editing

 
In a world abound with counterfeits, it is often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not with direct edits though. CAD programs desperate to enter the exclusive Direct Editi…

Webinar replays: Reusing designs and designing structural frames

Two new webinars in our Solid Edge Portfolio – Digital Transformation Webinar Series are now available for replay. The first covers the ability to capture and re-use design intent, and reusing proven…

The A in CAD has got a Whole New Meaning

  Unless you have been vacationing on Mars or hiding under a rock, that Synchronous Technology is 10 years old now and has matured and improved by leaps-and-bounds should not come as a surprise…

Fallouts of Sketch Based Features

When using the ordered method or synchronous, base features are generally sketch-based. This is especially true for prismatic parts. But the similarity largely ends there. Whereas ordered sketch…