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…

Nice Synchronous Technology Video

If you haven’t seen this yet, there’s a nice synchronous video making the rounds put together by Oliver Duncan. It hits many of the lightlights of the arguments for Synchronous Technology. If you’re …

Solid Edge Tips and Tricks #7

Is there a way to find out what all of the two-letter codes are for callouts?

Yes. Go to the Callout command and select the Property Text button from the Callout Properties dialog. No…

The Process of 3D Printing

If you haven’t seen my previous posts on this topic, they are here, here, and here.

Now that I have some experience with 3D Printing, I can lay out the process in more detail.  First,…

Interview with Mike Evans, CEO of Greenpower USA

Mike Evans is a Huntsville, Alabama educator who has been teaching for 25 years and using Solid Edge in his Design Drafting classes for about 15 of those years. He became involved with Siemens PLM di…

Color in Drawings

2D drawings have been dead for 30 years, if you believed CAD salesmen in the 1980s. Most of us knew that was wrong back then. Even today, there are only a few areas where drawings are truly extinct. …