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…

Tiny Home, Big Idea

Tiny homes are very popular these days, that siren call urging us to shrug off the trappings of life that tie us down in upkeep.  But for some people, a tiny home represents UP-sizing, not down-…

Students with electric dreams at the heart of Motorsport Valley

Motorsport Valley is a term often used to describe a geographic region in the UK which some consider to be the global centre for motorsport.  To help support this claim an astonishing&…

Solid Edge and Windows 10

Microsoft has been very aggressive about the Windows 10 upgrade. If you are on a managed corporate install, you might not see it, but on my personal computer, I get several reminders a week that it’s…

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #14

1) Why does the Quick View Cube not display when Application Display is set to Basic?
If the Application Display option is set to “Graphics Card Driven – Basic” within the Solid Edge Options> Vi…

Solid Edge Academic Licensing Tips

So you’ve registered for the product, downloaded the setup, and installed Solid Edge.  You’re super excited to start modeling, but you can’t seem to activate your license.  Here are the mos…

Solid Edge Streaming Pilot Reaching 5th Graders

At the Edith Bowen Laboratory School in Logan, Utah, 5th grade students are using Solid Edge to design in 3D. 

As part of the Solid Edge streaming pilot, students access Solid Edge ov…

Building the Podracer Model

I sometimes get questions about methods I’ve used to make certain models. My recent podracer for the rendering contest was one of those models.

I need to start by saying that this m…