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SEU14 video: Dan Staples Introduces ST7

SEU14 video: Dan Staples Introduces ST7

Dan Staples gave the keynote presentation at Solid Edge University 2014 where he introduced many of the new features in ST7. I know this is the part of SEU that everyone wants to be at, especially th…

SEU14 video: Live Rules and Solution Manager

I’ve previously written about LR and SM, and also going a little deeper with the Solution Manager. Before writing these blog articles, I spent some time talking to Chris. In order to get all the valu…

SEU14 video: Switching Your Workforce to Synchronous

I blogged about this particular presentation a while ago, but now the video is ready. The audio is not perfect, but I think the presenter’s message is one all CAD admins need to hear. The PDF alone r…

SEU14 video: ST7 Assembly Design with Art Patrick

This year at Solid Edge Universtity, they made me earn my paycheck. Of the available sessions, I was giving presentations or helping out for 5 time slots. This meant that I missed several presentatio…

SEU14 video: Synchronous for the Skeptic

Like most people, I’m embarrassed to see myself on video, but here is a link to the youtube video of one of my Solid Edge University sessions that aimed to convice synchronous skeptics of the validit…

Solid Edge Crossword #001

Work from memory to complete this Solid Edge crossword.
The real challenge lies in not referring Solid Edge or the Help documentation to guess the words.

Across 3. Swept…

Pushing Synchronous as a CAD Admin

You might have noticed that I’m not exactly neutral in the Synchronous vs Ordered debate. Synchronous was part of the reason for me to start looking at Solid Edge in the first place. So I’m always in…

First Steps to Automation – Part 2

…continued from Part 1
Keep typing more lines as shown below:

As evident, oDoc stores the Draft Document whose type definition comes from the DraftDocument type library refe…

Take the First Steps to Automation

This is an epilogue to the article Select and you are all Set which also provides a free macro that overcomes a limitation in the selected object count displayed in the Solid Edge Draft environment. …