Solid Edge Sensors: Orifice Plate, by Tushar Suradkar

[editor] This is an article submitted by Tushar Suradkar for publishing in the Solid Edge Community Blog.

Solid Edge Can Sense Solid Edge has a feature called Sensors – call it your …

Tips for Creating Better Renderings

I’ve mentioned before that I thought that many Solid Edge models don’t exactly represent themselves as well as they might visually. The software is really aimed at mechanical design, so this is to be…

Does it Really Matter “How” You Do It?

I’m going to keep on working through the piano bench I started last time. When I worked with history-only CAD, I spent a lot of time worrying about “how” to do things. It mattered because how you cre…

Building Something

I decided to just build something. I’m starting simple, with a piece of furniture – a piano bench. I’m going to do as much of this as makes sense in Synchronous. I’ve probably got about 2-3 hours int…

Imported Parts and Drawings

There are a lot of things I could call this article, but at its root it has to do with imported parts and drawings. The main feature I’m going to use is called Create 3D, which is perhaps a name that…

Secondary Sheet Metal Features: Dimple, Drawn Cutout and Bead

The last sheet metal features we talked about were the Gusset and Louver. These are features that don’t require sketches. The ones we’re going to talk about today are the Dimple and the Drawn Cutout,…

Secondary Sheet Metal Features: Louvers and Gussets

Solid Edge has a wealth of built-in secondary sheet metal features that are sure to make your life easier if you use them. There’s a lot to show here, so let’s just get started. All of these tools ar…

Sheet Metal Tour: Hems

The next stop on our tour of the sheet metal functions in Solid Edge is the Hem tool.

Hem is just meant to fold over the edges of parts usually for safety, aesthetic, or strength issues.

More Corner Detail

There were some comments at the end of the last article, and I started to answer them in the comments, but the response quickly became too big to handle as just a comment, so I’m making a mini-articl…