ST8: Assembly Productivity Enhancements

For ST8, Solid Edge has added a few nice assembly productivity enhancements.

The first one sounds simple, but once you use it a few times, I think you’ll agree that it saves a lot of t…

ST8: Compare Drawings

Another exciting new function in Solid Edge’s ST8 release is Compare Drawings. You can find Compare Drawings in the Solid Edge Application Menu.

The Compare Drawings function is fairly sim…

ST8: Annotation and Dimension Handles and Alignment

ST8 draft environment has a trove of new handles and alignment aids to help you make your annotations and dimension on your drawings look the way you want them to look.

There are three…

ST8: Helical Curve

One of the things I like best about Solid Edge development is that when a new release hits, they have their ear to the ground to pick up the reaction from users. I think that’s one of the things that…

ST8: Design Intent and Live Rules

“Design Intent” is a new feature in Synchronous Technology for ST8. Sometimes it gets a little confusing when a function name and a general concept have the same name, so let’s get this one straight …

ST8: “Like Me” Synchronous Pattern Recognition

With every release, Solid Edge increases the power of Synchronous Technology. Part of that power is how Sync deals with imported data. The ability to extract intelligence or design intent from “dumb”…

ST8: Pattern By Table

It’s my favorite time of year again, new release time! For about 10 months out of the year I wait for that second when I can start telling people about the new features in the software. It’s so much …

Offset Face Relate Enhancements – by Steve Sheldon

 
In ST7 we have introduced numerous enhancements to the Offset Face Relate command.

Offset to faces with parallel normals
Prior to ST7, you could only establish an Offset Face…

Video Recording and Uploading to YouTube in Solid Edge

In ST6 we introduced new functionality that added the ability to record videos directly in Solid Edge, eliminating the need for third party software tools for this task. In addition, Solid Edge now i…