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429 - Solid Edge - Tips and Tricks Craig Ruchti, Solid Edge Field Support, Siemens PLM Software
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Agenda: 429 - Solid Edge - Tips and Tricks
Who am I?
What you will learn
Solid Edge capabilities
Demonstrations
Benefits of this topic
How to learn more
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About: Craig Ruchti
Craig Ruchti
Solid Edge Field Support
Siemens PLM Software
Craig Ruchti is a member of the Solid Edge Field Support team. This group
creates Solid Edge demos, produces and delivers technical Solid Edge update
training and supports Solid Edge pre-sales activities globally. Craig is a graduate
of the University of South Florida with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Prior to
working with the Field Support team, he worked designing rehabilitation
engineering prototypes for various special projects and testing/altering existing
designs to increase use and marketability.
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What you will learn
In this session, we will look at little known Solid Edge shortcuts and highlight
underutilized new and old Solid Edge functionality and commands. We will get
back to the basics of things that make Solid Edge great! We will look into tips and
techniques you need to know to be successful with synchronous modeling. This
includes some best practices for specific design challenges and how to tweak the
user interface to make you more productive. Don’t miss this one!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Do you know how to add other standard templates to the Create
section of the Solid Edge start page?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Select Edit Create Options and add other templates
• Clicking Browse will open the templates dialog and you can
simply add from the "More" tab
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Did you know you can get important system information while in
a Solid Edge Part or Assembly file?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• CTRL + ALT + (double click) MIDDLE MOUSE WHEEL
• Can be especially important when debugging an issue with
hardware or software
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Do you know how to
place a subassembly
using a configuration?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• RMB click into the white space of the Part Library to invoke the
shortcut menu
• Select "Use Configurations"
• Don’t forget to toggle it off
to disable this function
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• When you drag in a subassembly, a dialog will be presented with
the option to select a configuration
• Also there is the option to activate all parts
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Did you know that when your cursor is over the Command
Ribbon that you can use the middle mouse scroll wheel to toggle
through the tabs?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• An underutilized feature for using the radial menu is a gesture
• Combination of a right mouse button "long click" and moving the mouse in a
particular direction
• Can locate any of the 8 commands on the inside ring
• The select tool in particular is very handy for terminating a command to select
a face or part
• Also remember that radial menu can be customized – per environment!
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• The timing can be set in the Solid Edge options > Helpers
• Minimum drag distance for gesture: = how far you must
make the mouse travel to invoke a gesture
• Show radial menu after: = How long you must hold down the
right mouse button before the radial menu shows
• Tweak the numbers slowly to adjust to your style
• It DOES take practice to coordinate moving the mouse and
holding down and letting off of the right mouse button
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Where do I find lists of the default shortcut keys for each Solid
Edge environment?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Open a Part
• Customize the Command Ribbon
• Select the environment
• Select the keyboard tab
• Change "Choose commands from:"
to "All Keyboard Assignments"
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Note that you can print out the keyboard assignments
for each environment
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Do you know how to make cross-hatching look the same
zoomed in as it looks when zoomed to fit?
• Make the hatch not resize dynamically while zooming in
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• If you set Solid Edge Options > View tab >
Display as printed, then it won't change as
you zoom in and out
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Do you Use a 3D motion controller?
• If you use a 3D motion controller like a
3D Connexion device or an Astroid,
you may wish to return the scroll
behavior of the middle mouse
wheel to the ST3 behavior.
• Stop zooming when scrolling
even when the cursor is not
over the value edit field
• Only scroll value changes
when a dimension is in
edit mode
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Setting is in Solid Edge Options
• General Tab
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• PMI dimensions can be resized on the fly
• Toggle the increase or decrease font icons
or use shortcuts:
CTRL+Shift+,
for decrease
CTRL+Shift+.
for increase
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Similarly, the Steering Wheel can be resized as well!
• Solid Edge Options > View
Show Me!
Small
Medium
Large
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Holding the Control + selecting a movement option on the
steering wheel will automatically copy the synchronous selection
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Communicate confidence in synchronous technology
• Must fully understand the benefits
• Do not be afraid to use the integrated design, mixing
synchronous and ordered in the same model.
• In many cases, it makes a lot of sense to do this.
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Understand the technology
• Rounding edges is often best left as an ordered operation.
• Eliminates synchronous faces getting consumed
by rounds
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• Have you ever been in a Synchronous Part and could not
remove rounds?
• This is a caveat of synchronous technology
• If a round has consumed an adjacent face on one of the two
surfaces being shared by the round, then synchronous
technology cannot create a new face that does not exist in the
current state of the model
• The part cannot repair itself attempting to delete (or detach) the
round
• What do I do now?
Show Me!
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks
• In cases like this you must do some "creative modeling" to add
and/or remove material to get the geometry back to the state you
need to continue.
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Questions??
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Contact
Craig Ruchti
Solid Edge Field Support
Applications Engineer
675 Discover Drive NW
Huntsville, AL 35806
Phone: +1 (256) 705-2626
Mobile: +1 (813) 810-0578
E-mail: