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Robust modelling

Alan — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:49:55 +0000

Back in the late 90’s Rick Mason was the guru when it came to Solid Edge and I was recently asked for Rick’s guidelines for robust modelling practice and thought it still useful and relevant to those users using feature based modelling (included below). This does also highlight to me the advances that Siemens have

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Solid Edge ST8 – MSI Maintenance Pack 1 Announcement

Alan — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 01:56:39 +0000

Note: The Solid Edge ST8 Maintenance Pack format and process has changed PLEASE READ CAREFULLY Release Notes: Microsoft Installer (MSI) Maintenance Packs – Beginning with Solid Edge ST8, Maintenance Packs are delivered as and installed using Microsoft Installer (MSI) technology. Solid Edge MSI based Maintenance Packs are installed and tracked as Product Updates. • MSI Product

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Changes to Material Library

Alan — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:26:26 +0000

Solid Edge now supports multiple material libraries. You can import and export materials, edit materials, and add custom properties to existing materials. You apply a material to a part to define the material and mechanical properties. These properties are used when you calculate the physical properties for a part or assembly, place the part in

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Renaming Parts in a Solid Edge assembly: a How to

Alan — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 23:42:44 +0000

Here are 3 methods you might use to achieve this. It’s important to note the first two methods will create new files, but not remove or delete the originals from Windows. 1) In Solid Edge open the assembly then edit into the component to be renamed and perform a Save as…, Close and Return. Result:

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Solid Edge tip – Troubleshooting Part to Sheet Metal

Alan — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:51:46 +0000

Ever tried converting a Part file into a Sheet Metal file and run up against errors? Given up, gone back and remodelled the part as a Sheet Metal file from scratch (or just given up fullstop!)? If the answer to any of these questions is yes then check out this video. It contains some useful

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Solid Edge tip – Setting user defined rotate point

Alan — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:11:47 +0000

This video shows how to replace the default centre of rotation with a user defined one. This can be especially useful when either editing / creating components in context of an assembly or zoomed in on a large assembly and using the default centre of rotation spins target components off screen. 1,314 total views, no views

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Solid Edge tip – Text as geometry

Alan — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:03:27 +0000

Since way back (Solid Edge v15 to be precise) you have been to create and edit text in a text editor. In some instances it is useful to be able to create or capture text as geometry. This short video (link below) shows how to convert an editable text feature into sketch geometry which can

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Solid Edge tip – Creating slots

Alan — Thu, 08 May 2014 02:55:34 +0000

This link – Slot and Path – takes you to a short video showing the latest functionality in Solid Edge for creating slots and how they can be utilized in assembly construction. The information supersedes our older post ‘Creating slots with symmetric offset’. 588 total views, no views today

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Using the Alt key in Solid Edge

Alan — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:11:25 +0000

At the risk of looking lazy (it is a very short working week after all), this weeks blog post is a link to the Siemens Solid Edge community blog. I read this article and just had to post it here too. There’s so much good information in it. Useful for so many, in so many

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Understanding Synchronous Technology (ST) Part 1

Alan — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:19:38 +0000

This video shows that using mixed mode modelling (ST and Ordered) can improve the ability of being able to modify faces. Having rounds of varying sizes on a face can make it hard for ST to manage geometry, but placing these rounds into ordered can leave faces free of “clutter” leaving ST free to do

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