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Solid Edge – Data Management Made Easy

Throughout the many years I have been involved with Solid Edge, one of the things I enjoy most is interacting with customers and listening to what they are trying to achieve in their design process and what they need out of their software.
One hurdle often encountered is the need to find design information as quickly [...]

August 18th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge ST3 Interface Enhancements

We have been seeing some really positive information creep out with regards to Solid Edge ST3 which is due to ship later this year (probably October). What appears to be happening that is that Siemens really seem to have been listening to their customers recently. This is testament to the number of customer driven enhancements [...]

August 12th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s Your Best Tip For Solid Edge

I hate to admit it but I was doing some work with Solid Edge on my laptop the other day and I couldn’t find the model I needed to modify.
I looked at my hard drive. The area where I store my data was 101GB in size containing 4,806 folders and 37,279 files.
It took me over [...]

July 22nd, 2010 | Arthur Sexton | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge Survey – Have Your Say on the Future

It seems that changes are afoot at Siemens PLM and there is a new drive to improve the way they listen to and interact with their customers. They have recognised that whilst Solid Edge, and the other products in the Velocity portfolio, have a lot of potential there is always a great deal of room [...]

July 2nd, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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More Solid Edge ST3 News

The Siemens PLM Connection annual user’s conference is currently underway in Dallas, Texas. The Solid Edge kick off presentation at this event provided some great information regarding what we are likely to see in the next major release – Solid Edge ST3.
The first impressions of Solid Edge ST3 are that it promises to be bigger [...]

June 29th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid Edge ST3 Sneak Peak

We are nearing that time of year again when the latest and greatest, next version of Solid Edge will be unveiled to the public. This gives us chance to start learning about the great new enhancements that will help us design faster and smarter than ever before.
Even though there is no information publicly available just [...]

March 31st, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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A New Solid Edge Community Is Born

At 2:00 PM GMT on Thursday 19th November, Solid Mastermind. was launched to the global Solid Edge community.

So what is Solid Mastermind all about?
Solid Mastermind is THE community for Solid Edge professionals. Think of it as The International Association, Alliance, Federation, Guild, League, Order, Society or Syndicate of Solid Edge Professionals.
Solid Mastermind is about you. [...]

November 26th, 2009 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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User Interface Changes in Solid Edge ST2

There are many great enhancments in Solid Edge ST2, not least the new Synchronous sheet metal capabilities and the new Simulation module. However in this first post for ST2 I wanted to focus on one of the the most important elements that you first encounter as a user of Solid Edge – the User Interface.
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July 3rd, 2009 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Converting Traditional to Synchronous

We have seen many great examples of Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology in action over the past few months. Most of these examples focus on either geometry that is purely synchronous or has been imported from another 3D Design solution such as SolidWorks or Inventor. Some previous posts which are worthy of a mention include - Imported Data, PMI [...]

December 3rd, 2008 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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Making Synchronous Design Changes in an Assembly

We have seen various posts and examples that demonstrate the benefits that Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology has when it comes to initial geometry creation or making fast flexible design changes. Some of these include:-
Unified 2D & 3D
Steering Wheel
Live Rules
PMI Dimensions
Editing Imported Data
However all of these examples focus on the creation and manipulation of geometry within [...]

October 14th, 2008 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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