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Large Assembly Techniques for Performance

February 2, 2016

“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…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Easy 3D printing from Solid Edge

February 1, 2016

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…

By DavidChadwick
< 1 MIN READ

Assembly PathFinder Part 2: Tools and Techniques

January 25, 2016

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…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Assembly PathFinder Part1: Settings and Symbols

January 21, 2016

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…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Identifying API Changes

January 18, 2016

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…

By jnewell
3 MIN READ

PathFinder: Info and Control Center for your Parts

January 15, 2016

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…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

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

January 8, 2016

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…

By uk_dave
7 MIN READ

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

January 7, 2016

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…

By DavidChadwick
3 MIN READ

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

January 4, 2016

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 …

By MLombard
3 MIN READ