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Assembly PathFinder Part 2: Tools and Techniques

In the previous article, we dealt mostly with settings and symbols that you use with the PathFinder. Here we will look at the available tools and techniques that you can use to manage and edit th…

Assembly PathFinder Part1: Settings and Symbols

You can’t get the most out of Solid Edge without knowing the assembly PathFinder pretty thoroughly. A lot of the tools will be obvious, things like mousing over items and they highlight in the graphi…

Identifying API Changes

I always try to make it a habit to read the readme.txt for each release of Solid Edge. Specifically, I’m looking at the API section to see what problem reports (PR) got fixed. Today I was reading thr…

PathFinder: Info and Control Center for your Parts

Early on, when I first started using Solid Edge, the PathFinder became a thing of instant interest. There are all sorts of things that show up there. You can find dimensions, sketches, bodies, materi…

Configuring Teamcenter BOM to Display Structure Based on Solid Edge Assembly Occurrence Properties

In this article we review how to configure Teamcenter and the Solid Edge Embedded Client such that the Teamcenter BOM structure when displayed in the Teamcenter RAC and Visualization resembles the So…

Built-in design management capabilities in Solid Edge – what is your experience?

Maybe because I work in the marketing team my work typically focuses on the add-on solutions we offer for design management – but Solid Edge has many excellent built-in design management capabilities…

Where is the “never add any relation without my permission” button?

This question recently showed up in the forums, and without hijacking the thread, I thought the best way to respond to it was here. I’m guessing that it was intended as rhetorical snark, but in this …

Virtual Mentoring From Siemens PLM

Virtual Mentoring From Siemens PLM

A pilot group of 10 high school classrooms participating in the Southern Regional Education Board’s (SREB) Advanced Career (AC) curriculum is tapping into new expertise via “virtual mentors” from ind…

Understand the Solution Manager

The Solution Manager helps you sort out which relationships are causing a particular edit to not work as expected. It also helps you visualize different solutions to the problem by analyzing the erro…