For some time now Solid Edge has had a tool called Create 3D which enables an imported 2D drawing to be quickly turned into a full 3D model. In previous versions Create 3D simply generated planar sketches in the 3D environment based on the detail views that came from the imported drawing. These sketches could [...]
October 22nd, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | ContinuedOther Recent Articles
Solid Edge ST3 Bares All
Solid Edge ST3 has now been officially announced by Siemens so we are free to dive in and take a look at the hidden gems that were alluded to in our previous post “Solid Edge ST3 – The Wait Is Nearly Over”.
We are going to see that ST3 has some fantastic new ways of [...]
Solid Edge ST3 – The Wait is Nearly Over
Well, Solid Edge ST3 is very nearly with us. Siemens will officially announce the product on Wednesday 13th October, and it should be available to download (if you have that capability) very shortly after that.
I have already posted a few articles looking at what is new in various different areas of the product from the [...]
Solid Edge ST3 The Striptease Begins
Solid Edge ST3 is now complete and has released to manufacturing. Siemens will officially announce its availablity on the 13th October 2010. As such, I wanted to follow on from some of the previous posts and cover off some more of the new functionality in ST3. There are some amazing ground breaking things in store [...] October 5th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 is that Siemens really seem to have been listening to their customers recently. This is testament to the number of customer driven enhancements that [...]
August 12th, 2010 | Jon Sutcliffe | 0 comments | Continued
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bill many thanks for your thoughts. I agree with you many of the recommendations could apply to other software.
However the ...
Why pick on Solid Ege ST4? You could have used a fill-in-the-blank form for this article. All of your recommendations ...
Thank you for the tutorial, it was very informative. I will be incorporating ST in my future modeling. I looks ...
I have used Solid Edge for 4 years and ST has made it faster to learn and easier to complete ...
Thanks for a great post John!
Roger 
Jon Sutcliffe says that Yes this is possible in Solid Edge too. Simply open the dwg file into Solid Edge ...
I had to replace around 15k drawings with a new template. Thank you to Ingenea for the Border Control application. 
Yes this is possible in Solid Edge too.
Simply open the dwg file into Solid Edge draft
Select the geometry you want ...
Can you bring in a autocad .DWG file into Solid Edge as a sketch for a part?
I can do this ...
thank you very much for preparing a useful tool...