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    How to bend a tube in Solid Edge

    It is possible you don't have the Sweep Command, depending on what level of Solid Edge you bought. Here is a sneaky way to do it no matter what Solid Edge you have. Just let the magic of rounding in Solid Edge do it for you. See here: http://screencast.com/t/DYD4R70scbh
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    Self Paced Training Available

    We've recently made our Self Paced Training available to all users, not just those on Maintenance. There are 30 or so mini-courses, including quite a few new with ST3. Check it out at: http://www.solidedge.com/spt/en/SESPT.cfm
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    XPressRoute very unstable ST1

    Very often if crashes are significant and random, its the graphics card driver. You should check the driver you are using and see what others with FX4600 use or check the graphics card website.
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    ST Sync Mode Problem

    After looking at this, I think there is a better geometric solution to where the rib joins the part from a mfg/design standpoint. If the rib were tangent to the round, you wouldn't have the messy situation where you have a 90 degree round right next to much shallower connect angle. I made some...
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    ST Sync Mode Problem

    OK. So here is the scoop. Generally, when you edit a dimension you want to move the target face. And most often, when doing so, you want to retrim the adjacent faces. In some cases, you want to move the target face and tip the adjacent faces -- there is a switch on quickbar for this. In your...

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