Videos tagged with Solid Edge

This video, featuring Chairmanwon and Hoffman Tactical, delves into advanced CAD surfacing techniques for firearm design, focusing on creating complex, organic shapes for improved ergonomics. It contrasts traditional solid modeling with surfacing, explaining how surfaces, though initially without thickness, allow for greater design freedom and intricate geometries. The discussion highlights specific tools and workflows in SolidWorks and Solid Edge, emphasizing the importance of surfacing for achieving ergonomic features that are difficult or impossible with basic extrusion methods. The presenters demonstrate how to build complex surfaces from sketches and guide curves, and then integrate them into final models using operations like thickening, Boolean subtraction, or face replacement, ultimately enabling more refined and user-centric firearm designs.