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Nested Dimple – A Workaround

This article discusses a Solid Edge workflow to create stepped deep drawn sheetmetal parts that are typically created with a double-acting press.

Normally the Dimple command is used for th…

Downunder Blunder Contest

We’ve been doing our best to invite people to Solid Edge University, so now that you’re coming, we’d like to help you have some fun and maybe gain some notoriety while youre there.

Rick Ma…

Mill-Turn Capability in CAMWorks for Solid Edge

CAMWorks for Solid Edge not only supports traditional turning, but it also supports mill-turn machines (aka multi-function machines).  A typical mill-turn machine can perform traditional turning…

CAMWorks TechDB

CAMWorks TechDB

CAMWorks for Solid Edge does a great job of automated machining of prismatic geometry.  With Automated Feature Recognition (AFR), features of various sizes and shapes are recognized for machinin…

Alternate Reality: 51 uses of the ALT key in Solid Edge

This post is one of the topics suggested by Matt in Got a Story to Tell? Get Into SEU14 for Free! and discusses the many uses of the Alt key in Solid Edge.

Straight off the bat the first…

My Schedule at SEU14

My Schedule at SEU14

CAD Conferences can be crazy. You’re seeing people you either never see or only see once a year. You feel obligated – and sincerely want to talk to everyone who you see in the hall. But on the other …

SEU14: No More Excuses

I know, you’re busy. You live under a rock. Your dog ate your email. You’re worried that they haven’t shoveled all the snow in Atlanta yet. I’ve heard a lot of excuses why people haven’t signed up fo…

More SEU14 News

I’d like to point out a  couple of things I haven’t mentioned before. There’s a video up from Chris Dayton, who is the Product Planning guy responsible for a lot of the detail in Synchronous Tec…

The Normal Protrusion and Cutout

A closely competing software to Solid Edge in its latest avatar 2015 introduced Normal Cutout. This reminds yet another time how Solid Edge has been years ahead of competition in several fields.
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