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Solid Edge Now Available Through Monthly Subscription

August 27, 2013

If you are starting a new business, do you buy a building right away? No. You rent one. If you have a surge in business that will only last a few months, do you hire a new full-time employee? No. You…

By MLombard
2 MIN READ

Multi-Body Modeling Part 3: How to Make Multiple Bodies

August 26, 2013

Making multiple bodies in a single part is easy. Here are a few methods for doing it:

Disjoint Solids

When you create solid regions that don’t touch one another, these are calle…

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

Multi-Bodies, Part 2: Managing and Manipulating

August 22, 2013

In the last post we talked about what kinds of things multi-body modeling (MBM) might be good for, on the conceptual level. In this post I want to talk more about some MBM facts – capabilities and to…

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Why Do We Need Multi-Body Modeling?

August 20, 2013

 
This is going to be a series of blog posts covering the topic of multi-body modeling (let’s call it MBM) in Solid Edge. It has taken me a while to get my head around this topic because it is…

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

Solid Edge Section Views

August 19, 2013

As a part of my on-going Solid Edge orientation, I’m continuing to learn the software. I promise that at some point I will be able to answer more questions than I ask, but that day has not yet come. …

By MLombard
4 MIN READ

ST6: Emboss

August 16, 2013

The Emboss feature in ST6 may be a sleeper, but I’m pretty sure there are going to be a few of you that realize what a beautiful thing this turns out to be. The first thing that’s really great about …

By MLombard
6 MIN READ

Handy Tool for Off-The-Shelf Parts in Your Design

August 14, 2013

Back in m y day (as my kids have started calling anything that predates them), finding motors, connectors, pumps,  springs or any other part I might buy off the shelf to use in my design was a …

By burhop
2 MIN READ

What is the Best Way to Use Synchronous Technology

August 12, 2013

With this blog post, I’m really aiming at three audiences: 1) long-time Solid Edge users who are comfortable with traditional history-based modeling and haven’t yet incorporated Synchronous methods, …

By MLombard
5 MIN READ

KeyShot Live Linking in ST6

August 9, 2013

Most of us are in the business of making things and all of us want our products to reflect the hard work we’ve put into them.  With ST6 and the new KeyShot plugin you can now make beautiful rend…

By jlinnert
5 MIN READ