Solid Edge University is the annual user conference for Solid Edge users around the world. If you’re curious about what’s going on with the technology that’s the next big thing…
Category: On The Edge
Art Patrick is one of the truly gifted folks in the Solid Edge product management role. After a previous post of stuff from Dan Vinson, Art also sent me a…
Since I’ve been working for the company, I tend to run into people who haven’t heard of Solid Edge, haven’t heard of them in 10 years and/or just assumed that…
I love cool design. I love cool manufacturing processes too. It’s fun to do cool design for cool processes. But sometimes the whole system goes wrong. You’ve got to be…
Evan Yares is a guy I have often quoted over the last several years. He’s now the General Manager of Nanosoft America, but he found time to finish up a…
Family of Parts gives you control that SW’s Configurations don’t provide. Last time we created a FoP table, and you get the idea of how you would go about creating…
Here’s a little tutorial on how to create a family of parts from an initial part. First, you have to make sure that all of your dimensions are driving dimensions.…
Solid Edge Family of Parts and Works Configurations don’t line up neatly for comparison. Edge even has a functionality called Configurations, but its best compared to Works Display States. I…
There is an on-going discussion about whether a history-based “move face” feature can be as effective as the Synchronous Technology Steering Wheel. Let’s take a couple of specific examples. 1.…
It has been a while since anyone considered me a Synchronous Technology cynic, although that’s initially exactly what I was. ST1 came out in about 2006, and it was preceded…