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As you move forward to the more recent release of NX / Teamcenter, you will encounter a change that may cause some confusion. This change was added in NX 1980, however you may not notice this until after we upgrade to a current release of NX /Teamcenter.NX will now store the exported PDF as a child to the UGPart source part.

Geometry Preparation for FEA Analysis in NX or Simcenter 3D

Solid Edge Universtiy 2023 - Tips and Tricks

The 4-tier client connects to the Teamcenter web tier using HTTP protocol or Teamcenter client communication system (TCCS). HTTP was the standard initially, but then the TCCS protocol was created to increase security and combine the different communications channels with the web tier into a centralized network configuration.

Industrial 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has evolved beyond prototyping and small-batch production. With advances in technology, it's now feasible to use 3D printers for large-scale production, producing high-quality products at quantities sufficient for market entry.

NX Motion Simulation is a CAE software application you can use to animate and analyze both kinematic and dynamic motion simulations in terms of critical design positions, forces, velocities, and accelerations.

Simple technique to turn 2D models to 3D in Solid Edge

Colored Section Cut Faces in SE2023

In Active Workspace you may well have already discovered the many ways we can search or filter the data stored within Teamcenter. All the tools available in Active Workspace can be developed to suite your specific product data, as is the case for Active Folders.

New NX Sketch Solver

In this month’s additive article we highlight the work Markforged has done to offer a complete engineering solution for 3d printing of high strength parts. From best-in-class strength, to digital simulation and quality control, companies looking to tackle industrial applications and get them right the first time now have a go to solution.

Using Ordered Sketch Regions in Solid Edge 2023

In the current and new releases of Teamcenter we will create and use CONDITIONS to manage the filtering of workflow templates. Conditions are powerful expressions which will qualify the use of workflow templates based on one or many different criteria we define. This method of filtering workflow templates provides much more flexibility and capabilities than the traditional tools we used previously.

In January we had the pleasure of spending time with the team at BASF reviewing the market potential of their powder for HP 3D printers. Following that we did some customer outreach and have determined that it is time to bring TPU to the Canadian market. It’s one thing to have samples on hand, but to truly drive adoption customers need to see their applications and see them quick. We’ll be ready this quarter to deliver demos and benchmarks at our Toronto showroom.

Reduce research time product development costs and product design risks, while learning how to design better faster.

How to Create a Custom Draft Template

In this blog, users are introduced to the multiple frame enhancements added in Solid Edge 2022.

Sloshing Analysis using FloEFD

This blog introduces users to the new Assign Capture Fit command in Solid Edge 2022.

On June 3, 2022, we celebrated the official Grand Opening of our new Additive Manufacturing Showroom and Technical Center located in Milford, Ohio!

This blog demonstrates the use of the new Family of Assemblies Parts List in Solid Edge 2022.

This blog demonstrates the use of the enhanced suppression capabilities within assembly files in Solid Edge 2022.

This blog introduces users to the new synchronous radiate command in Solid Edge 2022.

Solid Edge: A Baker's Dozen of Tips and Tricks Part 3

Solid Edge: A Baker's Dozen of Tips an Tricks (Part 2)

Solid Edge: A Baker's Dozen of Tips an Tricks (Part 1)

Start to Simulate Series - Simcenter

NX Tools for Convergent/ Facet bodies

This blog shows users how to easily machine tubes and ports using our manufacturing packages.

Additive Manufacturing Tools in Solid Edge

NX Advanced curve and surface features; showing Mechanism iso-cline technique and quick shut-off creation methods.

This blog show you how to manage a typical revision to an assembly, and associative draft files, using Design Manager

This video goes over a few simple but effective methods to assemble 3d printed parts. We cover a few key features in Solid Edge that makes assembling easy and also go over a dovetail joint.

3D printing with HP Jet Fusion simplifies the process even further. There are zero supports required and assemblies can be printed in place. Common features we see are:

Implicit Modeling in NX

If your company is struggling with the cost and time wasted on producing accurate technical documentation, perhaps it is time to look at Solid Edge Technical Publications.

When 3D printing a powder bed technology (Jet Fusion, Selective Laser Sintering) one of the most important constraints to consider is the packing density of your build. Packing density refers to the percent of the build volume that is taken up by the printed parts themselves. Depending on your technology and application it is typical to see targets set at 6 – 12%.

Our annual Solid Edge Tips and Tricks presented at Solid Edge University 2021

NX Advanced curve and surface features; showing best-practice techniques to improve your mold parting-lines and run-offs.

Shared links from our Solid Edge University Event

Manufacturing aids are the perfect first applications to 3D print. We see companies typically saving +50% in cost, shavings days if not weeks off turnaround, and lightening their parts by moving off of metal or solid plastic to fiber reinforced composite parts.

Solid Edge’s new Subdivision modeling allows you to reverse engineer and part from images

In this video we go over the reverse engineering tools in Solid Edge 2021. We then go over some techniques on how to create a helmet from scanned data of a human head

Quick overview of NX technical data package

This video goes over additive manufacturing using Solid Edge 2021. It shows how to prepare and validate your model before sending it for 3D printing so you can catch the errors beforehand. We also go over how to add 3D Printer materials to your library and browse for 3D printer services from online vendors.

Part 2 of our annual presentation of tips and tricks, gathered over the year from technical questions received from our customer base.

Part 1 of our annual presentation of tips and tricks, gathered over the year from technical questions received from our customer base.

Growing 3D printing in North America Through its novel partnership concept, designfusion is enabling companies like Stratagen3d of Kelowna, BC to start – and grow – its business

Using Solid Edge Advanced Simulation

This video demonstrates the NX join capability for users who often use fastener and welding in their design.

Over the years I have supported numerous customers who have had issues with adjustable assemblies. Although they are often easy to create, editing and manipulating them can be confusing. In this blog article, I will point out a few tips for working with them, which I hope will make it easier to work with your own adjustable assemblies.

This video demonstrates the capabilities of structure designer application in NX1926

Design for manufacturing is the combination of two major sources of product implementation, design and the production process. In which both the design of a product should be simple and easy while in manufacturing, production cost should be less with a better quality product.

How to Create a Deformable Part in NX

Overview of New Sketch Solver in NX1926

An overview of our NEW online self paced training

Solid Edge Webinaires

This video is to demonstrate a capability of product template studio with a real life example.

How to determine where to add more strength by adding carbon fiber as reinforcement material.

In this video we start with an STL file of a kettlebell and we reverse engineer it from scratch, going through every step in detail. This also covers surfacing techniques which aid in re-creating the kettlebell and achieving a solid design body

Eiger is a cloud-based print management application, that allows you to designate and review printing solutions options. This application covers all Markforged product line.

Communication between you and your colleagues, customers, contractors, and suppliers has always been crucial to your success. This is even more critical in this time of social distancing caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the more universal ways of sharing documents is through PDF files. PDF format allows the sharing of 2D and 3D documents electronically. Plus, most computers already have a PDF reader, so anyone can view these documents. Furthermore, the PDF format supports both 2D PDF and 3D PDF documents, which is ideal for communicating CAD data. With Solid Edge, you can save assemblies, parts, sheet metal parts, and draft documents in the PDF format. In this blog article, I will review the steps on how to save your Solid Edge files into the PDF format.

Siemens NX G-code driven simulation is an essential part of staying competitive in today’s market and maximizing your machine tool investments. Validating your G-code before transferring a program to a machine tool is crucial. This becomes even more critical when working with 5-axis machines and multitasking machines. NC program validation can save time and money while also making sure company assets are kept safe.

An introduction on how to model parts with an organic shape using surface modeling. Here we make use of the Blue Surf command and how to manipulate the surface using Blue Dots

This video highlights the advanced G-code Driven Simulation integrated with NX for Manufacturing. The DMG Mori CTX Gamma 5-axis machine is easily programmed and the verified using actual G-code before the program is sent to the machine. This capability ensures costly mistakes such as collisions, over travels, setup errors, and more can prevented. G-code Simulation will enhance productivity, increase efficiency and reduce cycle times.

As part our efforts to support our customers in these challenging times Designfusion is offering this free 5 part webinar series .The invitation is open to your whole company, new employees, casual users and people who have not previously had the time to pick up NX skills.

Solid Edge Webinars

This article will walk you through how this special license can be used to allow you to work from home, using one of these options.

As some of you may already know, Solid Edge has its own manufacturing product called Solid Edge CAM Pro. Prior to ST10 we used NX CAM Express. In ST10, they renamed this to Solid Edge CAM Pro, to ensure that our customer base knew that this manufacturing package was for Solid Edge.

There are a lot of people we talk to that are very excited about what additive manufacturing is doing to the world. The question that never seems to get asked is the most import. “How do WE get this into our company”. The first response is you have to acknowledge that what we do and how we do it today has rules that we have all accepted and just carry on every day like there are no limiting factors…but there are!

Additive Manufacturing enables companies to achieve completely new levels of product performance, manufacturing effectiveness and business results.New software, hardware and material technologies have emerged to completely change the way the products are designed and manufactured.Additive manufacturing is one of the revolutionary technologies that can transform production operations and business models.

Accelerate your Product Development process and explore wider range of design options with NX’s Generative Design

In NX 1899 we can Reverse Engineer the scanned 3D point cloud data to convergent bodies using “Mesh from cloud” tool. A very handy and effective tool to work with organic and complex shapes in the additive manufacturing process.

In this blog article, I will recap the second part of my annual Baker’s Dozen of Tips and Tricks, which was presented at recent Solid Edge Universities, in Toronto, Winnipeg and Red Deer. What follows is, the PowerPoint slides and links to videos showing what was demonstrated live, at the SEU events.

In this blog article, I will recap the first part of my annual Baker’s Dozen of Tips and Tricks, which was presented at recent Solid Edge Universities, in Toronto, Winnipeg and Red Deer. What follows is, the PowerPoint slides and links to videos showing what was demonstrated live, at the SEU events.

This video covers the transition from a traditionally manufactured part to an additive manufactured part using Generative Design capabilities in Solid Edge.

Assembly Subtract Options Video

We are regularly asked how to improve the performance of Solid Edge. The vast majority of performance issues can be improved by doing one of the following: a) Improve the performance of your computer b) Check your Solid Edge data for errors c)Take the Advanced Assembly course Let’s look at these different topics in some detail.

Recently I had an interesting demo, where I was asked to model a tube with helically patterned holes. I was sure that we could do it, but I was surprised at the simplicity of it. But as I always say, everything is simple if you know what you are doing. Needless to say, the prospect was amazed at the speed with which we made his part and, I’m pleased to say, has become a customer. So, I thought I’d share this knowledge with our blog readers and I hope you find it beneficial.

Some of you may be asking “What happen to Solid Edge ST11?”. Siemens PLM has decided to adopt the year format, thus making the next release Solid Edge 2019. Products in the Solid Edge portfolio will also adopt this year format name change. For example, “Solid Edge Illustrations” will be named “Solid Edge Illustrations 2019”.

In this article, I will continue to focus on some of the Solid Edge tools used to deal with large assemblies.

In this article, I will continue to focus on some of the Solid Edge tools used to deal with large assemblies.

One of the most prominent issues, that has bogged down many CAD systems, is the ability to deal with large assemblies. Despite improved hardware and continuing CAD improvements, this issue is still a top complaint among many CAD users. In some cases, it is the CAD system’s architecture that causes the system to slowdown as the assembly size increases. However, with Solid Edge, most cases we encounter are the result of the user being unaware of tools and/or best practices for dealing with large assemblies.

I’ve had a couple of calls, on our tech line this month, asking if it’s possible to save an assembly as a single part file. For users who are on ST10 or Solid Edge 2019 the answer is yes. Solid Edge refers to this as a One Body Assembly, and it is part of the Insert Part Copy command.

This is the second part, of our tips and tricks session, that we presented at our 5 SEU related events in 2018.

This year, Designfusion hosted and participated in 5 Solid Edge University events. Starting with SEU Toronto, and followed by SEU Montreal, and then our 2-Day SEU event in Chicago. We then ran two events called the “Best of SEU 2018” in Olds, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba. One of the most popular sessions was our Tips and Tricks session. For those of you who missed one of these events, we offer you this blog which covers the tips and tricks session.

Check-Mate is a very powerful tool in Siemens NX and is often overlooked. It provides an automated, customizable tool that aids in proactively improving product quality. Check-Mate has capabilities ranging from a simple spell check on all notes and annotations to reporting WAVE-linked objects in an assembly and the WAVE link status. While there are over 300 standard checkers, Check-Mate also allows the user to set up customized design checking to ensure all projects comply with their Company’s standards. For example, if your company works with layers frequently, a customized check can be set up to check if the specified layers or layer categories contain the object types to which they are mapped.

Solid Edge helps you overcome electro mechanical design challenges with a dedicated solution for electrical design—enabling true co-design collaboration across electrical and mechanical domains. Sounds impressive, but what does it really mean? In this blog, I want to show you a simple scenario that will illustrate the power and speed of this new module.

Solid Edge 2020 will be available for download soon (mid-July 2020), so I thought I’d share my thoughts on this latest release from Siemens PLM Software.Click the links, if you haven’t already read the Press Release or seen the Fact Sheet. Plus, there have been numerous articles already posted about the new enhancements in Solid Edge 2020.So, I will not try and cover everything added or enhanced in this article.Instead I will focus on several features that I believe will benefit the average designer, or ones that I feel will have an impact on their current procedures. Hence the name of this blog article.

The internet is loaded with websites and articles offering a wide variety of opinions on CAD and CAM software, but most of these are bias to particular needs, software companies, or the author. Furthermore, many of the articles focus on sales rather than the technical capabilities of the software. So how do you, the user, determine which CAD or CAM software is best for your needs? In this article, I will offer you a simple, yet reliable, method to achieve this goal. 

Reverse Engineer a Turbine Wheel from Scanned Data.

With the release of Solid Edge 2020, several early adopters have contacted us requesting help in upgrading. Normally this is relatively a simple process, but this release has introduced a new common licensing platform. This introduction has caused some confusion, so I will try to clarify it, in this blog article.