Tips & Tricks

Alternate Reality: 51 uses of the ALT key in Solid Edge

This post is one of the topics suggested by Matt in Got a Story to Tell? Get Into SEU14 for Free! and discusses the many uses of the Alt key in Solid Edge.

Straight off the bat the first…

The Normal Protrusion and Cutout

A closely competing software to Solid Edge in its latest avatar 2015 introduced Normal Cutout. This reminds yet another time how Solid Edge has been years ahead of competition in several fields.
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Using CAMWorks for Solid Edge

I want to use this post to address the basic operation of CAMWorks for Solid Edge.  At its core the product uses built-in intelligence to recognize several different types of prismatic features …

Surfacing: Techniques from the Trenches

Solid Edge surfacing is an area which can be conquered only by getting your hands dirty. There is no way mastering it by marveling at designs created by others or by reverse engineering it i…

Solid Edge Windows Integration

Last September, VP of Development for Mainstream Engineering Dan Staples commented in a discussion. I appreciate the tenacity and also what said: Solid Edge is very “Windows Native” and this cons…

The 10 Golden Rules of Solid Modeling

Even as synchronous modeling makes great strides with each new release of Solid Edge, I thought of taking a hint from Matt Lombard’s following quote in his very useful guidelines for blog authors. …

Solid Edge Design Optimization using Excel Solver

This articles discusses about:
• How to drive a Solid Edge part from an Excel Spreadsheet. • The Excel Solver Add-In. • Using Solver for design optimization in Solid Edge.
The Scenario …