Lightworks Literature

I stumbled across these articles recently while looking for something else at the Lightworks user website. The articles are specific to NXRender but apply equally, in theory if not practice, to VS+ in Solid Edge. There are some very important general rendering and visualisation concepts covered as well.…

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Solid Edge Properties – Addendum

In the last post I questioned the availability of the MS Office file property handler on systems without MS Office installed. I just discovered that there is a default OLE Document property handler that ships with windows (7 at least) that will do the same thing, in fact I will use this on my system instead of the MS Office one. So from the last post just replace all references to:

{97e467b4-98c6-4f19-9588-161b7773d6f6}

with:

{8d80504a-0826-40c5-97e1-ebc68f953792}

and it will work just the same but without any dependence on MS Office.…

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Solid Edge Properties

The Problem

Some Solid Edge users may have noticed that in moving from Windows XP to Vista or 7 that the document property columns in windows explorer do not display information about SE files as they once did. This is not due to any changes in SE but rather a change in the way properties are dealt with from XP to the newer OS’s.…

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