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Speeding design of plastic parts

Solid Edge has specific commands for rapidly creating the features commonly used in plastic parts
Solid Edge includes excellent capabilities for designing plastic parts, and this is the focus of…

Notes from the field: Wonderful Solid Edge User Meet in Pune, India

I recently had the opportunity to attend a Solid Edge User Meet, an event organised by the Solid Edge User Community located in and around Pune, India. I first became aware of these events during the…

Shining a light on the mysterious art of surfacing

One of the most popular webinars in our Solid Edge Digital Transformation series was the one on creating complex surfaces. Although we often think about Solid Edge as a tool for designing prismatic, …

Webinar replay: Routing pipes, tubes and hoses around your assemblies

Routing pipes and tubes around 3D assemblies is simplified using Solid Edge XpresRoute capabilities
A new webinar replay is available that includes an excellent demonstration of how to include p…

3D Geometry API – A Gentle Introduction

Among tangible or visible geometric elements, the prominently accessed collections in a Part or Sheetmetal document are the Features, Sketches, Profiles, PMI and the Reference Planes. The most sought…

Webinar replay: Creating beautiful visualizations of your designs

Watch a new webinar replay that has some great tips on how to create beautiful rendered images of your products. We hear from many Solid Edge users that their sales and marketing departme…

Solid Edge Generative Design – watch the new webinar replay!

A replay of a new webinar on generative design is now available on Engineering.com (registration is required). The webinar starts with some interesting survey data and insights from industr…

Teach an Old (CAM) Dog New (CAD) Tricks

I know CAM. In fact, it’s fair to say that when someone within the Solid Edge organization has a CAM question, they probably end up talking to me. But for CAD?Let’s just say I’m not first on a…

The Myriad of Solid Edge File Properties APIs

Accessing Solid Edge document properties to either read or modify is the most common activity performed on Solid Edge documents apart from when manipulating the content of the document itself.
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