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A CAD Admin Perspective on ST9 Beta Training

A CAD Admin Perspective on ST9 Beta Training

ST9 is moving toward release, but as it isn’t released yet, I can’t really talk about specifics. For that reason, I’m not writing about the new software itself, but rather about how and why CAD Admin…

Student Spotlight: Brittany Paris

Meet Brittany Paris, a senior at Fountain Lake High School in Hot Springs Arkansas.  As part of Fountain Lake’s project-based learning program, Brittany is learning that nursing and engineering …

Solid Edge user group coming to Cincinnati

The internet (all hail the internet), as great as it is, cannot replicate every corner of human interaction. And the fact is that even this on-line community for Solid Edge does not touch every need …

Solid Edge User Group at Huntsville

I don’t get to the Huntsville office too frequently, but I’ve been lucky that several times when I have been here, they were having a local Solid Edge user group meeting. Aside from Solid Edge Un…

Large Assemblies Part 2: Other Considerations

Another common source of performance problems comes from networks. The speed of your network is a separate issue that I won’t address here. That’s more of an IT infrastructure issue. But there are th…

Student Spotlight: Kyle Crowder

Kyle Crowder, a senior at Fountain Lake High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas, is learning valuable skills as part of the project-based learning initiative led by Toby Craver.  Learn first-hand h…

Reviewing what calls your Partner has submitted to GTAC under your company name

In a recent forum post, there was a discussion about how as an end customer receiving support directly from a Partner [VAR], it was not possible to see what calls the Partner had submitted to GTAC un…

Large Assembly Techniques for Performance

“Large assemblies” is a term that means different things to different people. If the number or complexity of parts in your assembly poses a performance problem to your computer/hardware/network, then…

Easy 3D printing from Solid Edge

In Solid Edge ST7 we added a new command “Print using Microsoft 3D Builder” – a direct way to output a Solid Edge part or assembly model to a 3D Printer – but this may have been overlooked by so…