It’s one thing to know about a topic intellectually. It’s another thing altogether to have some hands-on experience with it. This week I’ve spent in training with Solid Edge. It’s…
Category: assemblies
I spent some time this weekend working with the Frames functionality in Solid Edge. I’m not an expert in this kind of work, but I’ve done some similar sort of…
Recently looking through some mobile viewers I came across a CADENAS Gmbh Android app for getting standard CAD models for a number of standard machinery parts. The SolidWorks part of…
Today I decided to do the Solid Edge tutorial on tubing and piping, using XpresRoute. Picking this up was easy. For simple here-to-there routes, Solid Edge runs the routing lines…
The Engineering Reference library is a nice design/modeling assistant for standard engineered components like shafts, cams, spur gears, bevel gears, worm gears, rack and pinion sets, sprockets, springs, pulleys, and…
Solid Edge wants to take a look at some examples of users SolidWorks assemblies, for those of you who have any of those and are able to share them. If…
To try to keep up some of the momentum that Solid Edge University has produced, I want to start a new modeling project using Solid Edge for most of the…
Today I built a V6 engine in SolidWorks. This is a model for a writing project I’m doing. It’s not done yet, but I wanted to make sure it worked…
Asking SolidWorks users, or anybody for that matter, for suggestions is always an interesting affair. I always enjoy reading the suggestions when SolidWorks opens up Brainstorm or whatever they call…
So much of what SolidWorks users assume about assembly modeling appears to come from the official SolidWorks training. The official SW training has been around for a good long time, and it receives high…