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Synchronous Technology and Live Rules

October 17, 2013

Solid Edge provides no end of potential topics for blog articles. Finding a topic I like is not a difficulty. Narrowing it down to just one idea is probably the hardest part. The next hardest part is…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Assemblies

October 16, 2013

When you work on a Solid Edge assembly, you can move parts that are under constrained. So if a rotational degree of freedom is left  undefined, you can rotate that part while all of the other ma…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solid Edge Adjustable Parts

October 14, 2013

The documentation group for just about any software rarely gets good news in public, but there are a couple of things I want to point out before moving forward with the rest of this article. The firs…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

It Looks Like Cheating, but Feels Oooh, Sooo Good: ST6 Synchronous Boolean

October 11, 2013

What is this, has Matt turned to writing bad country songs? Maybe a hedonist manifesto? No, it’s not any of that. It’s just a confession. Like most long-time history-based CAD users, I have an overac…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Using STL to 3D Print in Solid Edge

October 9, 2013

Those of you that follow me on twitter or Google + likely know I have a few home projects running around 3D printing.  Many of you have high end Stratasys or 3D Systems machi…

By burhop
2 MIN READ

Boxx 4150xt Compact Tower Review

October 7, 2013

I’ve owned a computer from Boxx Technologies before, and I know they are really well built computers, so when the opportunity to review one came up, I jumped at the chance. The previous machine from …

By MLombard
7 MIN READ

Creating Animations in Solid Edge

October 4, 2013

I hope you have been following this pressure washer series, and that you are finding mating parts and creating motion as easy as I’ve found it. This series of articles started with the idea that I wo…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

In-Context Editing, Synchronous Style

October 2, 2013

For those of you who are keeping track of our journey with the pressure washer assembly, we started out by migrating it into Solid Edge from Works. Then we checked out how many of the mates came acro…

By MLombard
3 MIN READ

Making Edits to Migrated Parts

September 30, 2013

Maybe you noticed that a blog written in third person starts out kind of cool, but the novelty wears off somewhere in the second article. So our story is gonna switch. The engineer that has been work…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ