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Solid Edge App Marketplace now online!

You can go direct to the Solid Edge App Marketplace to browse through the available apps or read a blog post with some background on why we have added this new way of ma…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #9

How can I turn the centerlines off in a view? There is no single button to turn off all center lines at one time. However you can create a query to find and select all centerlines, then uncheck the S…

Detail Makes Your Keyshot Rendering More Believable

I just want to add some variety and show some other techniques. Here I used one of the HDRI environments as the background image. Getting the lighting to match the background can be difficult, but us…

Understanding Keyshot Backgrounds

As engineers and designers, it is sometimes tempting for us to discount the value of a pretty picture. You spend all of your time establishing the geometry and attributes of the product that few unde…

Quick response to late-stage design changes

No one needs to tell you how busy you are—you know how busy you are…when you work through lunch (again), stay at your desk much later than you had planned (again), and push off that vacation (again…

Solid Edge Rendering Contest Starts NOW!

This has been in the works for a while, and I’m excited that it’s finally here. A monthly Solid Edge/Keyshot Rendering Contest! Download the model, set up your scene and render settings, then submit …

Solid Edge Community Celebrates 19 Years of Solid Edge

Solid Edge celebrated the 19th anniversary of its first release yesterday. Here is the initial splash screen from the first version

It just happened that there were several of us at…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #8

How can I unalign coordinate dimensions? You will have to hold the alt key down when placing the dimension, this will start a new group.

Why does the resulting fillet of the 2D sketch comm…

Synchronous AND Parametric

There is this misconception going around that synchronous models are somehow not parametric. You can have one or the other, but not both. I suppose that’s because a lot of people equate history-based…