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SOLID EDGE UNIVERSITY 2014

Re-imagine What’s Possible #SEU14

Solid Edge University 2014

May 12-14, Atlanta, GA, USA

Getting the Most Out of Drafting

Ricky Black, Draft Product Manager, Siemens PLM Software

2014-05-13


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Agenda

• Improved Linear Dimension

Workflows

• Coordinate Dimension

Enhancements

• Reference Text (FCF, etc.)

• Center of Mass and Coordinate

System Display

• Associative BOS and Drawing View

Depth

• Assembly Component Drawing

Views and Large Assembly

Workflows

• Table Enhancement

• More Productivity Enhancements

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About: Ricky Black

Ricky Black

Draft Product Manager

Siemens PLM Software

Ricky is product manager of the Solid Edge Draft and PMI software. He has over

30 years of experience in manufacturing and mechanical CAD. He has worked

as a machinist and CNC programmer on flight hardware in the aerospace

industry. He has also worked as a CNC programmer in mold design. He worked

as an instructor and applications engineer for Intergraph’s NC software. With his

expertise in manufacturing he later moved into software development for the

same NC software. Ricky was a member of the Solid Edge Draft software

development team since the beginning of Solid Edge. He accepted the roll of the

Solid Edge Draft Product Manager in the spring of 2002.

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Dimension Alignment

• Dimension Alignment Sets

• (ST5 and before) Chain Dimensions – Drag as single set

• (ST5 and before) Or Stack Dimensions – Drag as single set

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Dimension Alignment

• Dimension Alignment Sets (ST6)

• Collections of dimensions that are aligned (chain and/or stack).

• Combination Chain and Stack Dimensions – Drag as single set

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Arrange Dimensions

Before

After

• Arrange Dimensions (ST6)

• Alignment Sets get Created

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Dimension Alignment

• Arrange Dimensions (ST6)

• Alignment Sets get Created

Drag Alignment Set

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Improve Linear Dimension Orientation

Placement/Modify

Improved control for linear dimension

orientation (ST7)

• Smart Dimension

• Distance Between

• Linear Dimension Modify

• More consistent Smart Dimension

and Distance Between

• Change Orientation on linear

dimensions with Modify command

• Smart Dimension Orientation

• Automatic – Geometry determines orientation

(ST6 Behavior)

• Horizontal/Vertical, By 2 Points, Use

Dimension Axis – User Defined Orientation

(New in ST7)

• Distance Between Orientation • Use (Shift) to change between

Horizontal/Vertical and By 2 Points

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Dimension Drag Modify

• Improve drag dimension text.

• Drag dimension text will move dimension

• Alt+drag dimension text will pull out the text.

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Coordinate Dimension Enhancements

• Improved Creation Workflow

• Fewer Clicks for Measure Dimensions

• Improved Display Control

• Dimension Style and Dimension

Properties

• Perpendicular Text (New default)

• Allow negative values

• Allow origin value change

• Applies change to measure

dimensions

• Improved Dimension Line Length

and Handles

• Shortened Dimension Line

• Drag Dimension Line to reposition

• Improved Jogging

• Automatic jog during placement

• ALT+Drag text to add jog

• Will also jog adjacent dimensions

• Improved Drag Behavior

• Drag any dimension line to reposition

all aligned dimension lines

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Coordinate Dimension Enhancements

Dimension style and Properties

Lines and Coordinate Tab

Improved Placement Workflow

Place Origin

Dimension

Single Click

Geometry For

Measure

Dimension

Dimension

Added and

Jogged, No

Second Click

Single Click

Geometry For

Measure

Dimension

Dimension

Added and

Jogged, No

Second Click

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• Set filter for circle center points only.

• Select drawing view to find circles.

• Cursor position defines dimension

orientation.

Automatic Coordinate Dimension Command

• Place many coordinate dimensions

at one time.

Automatic Coordinate Dimension

Command

• Selection by drawing view or by

geometry

• Filter keypoints to dimension

Select by Drawing View

Select by Geometry

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Reference Text

• Reference Text is used to extract text from annotations, then to be inserted

into other annotations.

E.g. Feature Control Frame has a reference to the Datum

Frame text ‘A’. If ‘A’ is changed in the Datum Frame, then

the Feature Control Frame will update automatically.

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Reference Text

• Reference Text can be inserted

into: • Callout

• Feature Control Frame

• Balloon

• Block Label

• It will be evaluated as Property

Text. (Note: a loop reference isn’t allowed. E.g.

A <- B <- A)

Click reference text button to invoke the reference text dialog

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Reference Text

• The following annotations may be

referenced (Source Type): • Callout

• Datum Frame

• Balloon

• Datum Target

• Drawing View

• Property to reference (Field):

• Different fields by source type

• String uses the general form of

Property Text. It is created through

the Reference Text Dialog.

E.g. %{Balloon Upper|Ref:A256} means a

reference to the Upper text in the Balloon with ID

of ‘A256’.

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Reference Text

• Datum Target Enhancement

• ‘Reference’ property is split into ‘Reference’ and ‘Number’.

• When used as Reference text an FCF only displays the ‘Reference’ property, not the ‘Number’.

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Center of Mass and CS Display on DVs

• New Solid Edge Option to define default

edge style for Center of Mass and

Coordinate System point display.

• It will be applied to new

drawing views automatically

for Center of Mass and

Coordinate System edge

display.

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Center of Mass and CS Display on DVs

• New Solid Edge Options to define the

default Block (symbol) for Center of Mass

and Coordinate System display.

• It will be applied to the drawing

views automatically for Center

of Mass and Coordinate

System symbol display.

• Default block will be set to

‘COM’ block for both.

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Associative Drawing View and Broken Out Section

View Depth

• The depth line tracks with cursor to

define the display depth.

• The shaded area indicates what will

be cut away, not what to keep.

(Bottom – Up)

• Click a keypoint for associative

depth

• Click in free space for non-

associative depth.

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Associative Drawing View Depth

(Note: Shaded area starts from the drawing view border.)

• An orthogonal view could be located to

define depth. It includes auxiliary view,

section view and rotated principal view,

which is not supported in ST6.

• Click on key point, then depth will be

associative with that key point.

• Non-associative depth is still supported

by Ctrl+click on key point.

• Clicking is free space is also non-

associative.

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Associative Drawing View Depth

• A center line can be located when it is parallel with the depth line. The depth will

be associative to the centerline.

• Non-associative depth(ST6 behavior) is still supported by clicking in free space.

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Enable Broken Out Section for More View Types

• Enable a BOS on auxiliary view.

• Enable a BOS on section view.

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• Start with top level assembly drawing

view.

• Create Parts List and Item Balloons.

• This defines Item Numbers and Count.

Assembly Context Drawing Views

• Derive Component Drawing Views

from Top Level Assembly

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• Selected component(s) highlight in

assembly drawing view(s).

• For stand alone drawing view(s) check

‘Create drawing view independent of

assembly’.


• Run Drawing View Wizard

• Select component(s) in Select

Attachments dialog.

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• Place Item Balloon on new component

drawing view.

• Item numbers and counts are derived

from top level assembly.

• Creates a drawing view of the assembly

• Tree is trimmed to selected components


• Place drawing view of selected

component.

See bottom drawing view.

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• Enhancement to expand tree or collapse

tree to shown components.

• Works with any assembly drawing view.


• Filter drawing view display list to

display only shown components.

New Button on Display Tab

Pushed - Collapsed

Popped - Expanded

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• Parts List – List Control Tab

• Use simplified subassemblies

• Saved in Saved Settings

Large Assemblies – Drawing Views and Parts Lists

• Take advantage of simplified

assemblies to improve performance

of drawing views and parts lists

• Collapse list in List Control tab

through ‘Use simplified

subassemblies’

• Reduce the amount of data pulled

to cache for managed workflows

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• Solid Edge Options – Drawing View

Wizard

Large Assemblies – Drawing Views and Parts Lists

• Setup default for both drawing view

and parts list creation

• Specify saved settings with

simplified subassemblies

• Will reduce the amount of data

pulled to cache

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Table Enhancements

• Table Docking/Undocking

• More Shortcut Commands for In-

Place Edit

• Highlight, Thumbnails, and

Properties

Click any table page to drag table. All

pages move.

Disconnect (Undock) – ALT+Drag

Reconnect pages (Dock)

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Commands based on cell selection

• Insert/Delete – Columns and Rows

• Show/Hide – Columns and Rows

• Copy/Paste - Cells

Table Enhancements



Place Edit


Properties

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Shortcut menu for upper left corner cell

• Highlight – Display toggle – Parts

List

• Thumbnails – Thumbnail window

toggle – Parts List

• Properties – Go to Properties Dialog

Table Enhancements



Place Edit


Properties

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Block Enhancements

• Extract Block properties with Property

Text.

• Extract Block Name and Block View

name

• Extract all Block Properties

• Extract all Label Values

• Added Blocks and Tables filters

in Select Options

• Allow create Block from Group

• Drops the group when added to block.

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Extend Live Drawing View Display

The drawing views can be previewed during placement (ST6) by checking Solid

Edge options-> Drawing View Wizard -> Dynamic display ON.

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Extend Live Drawing View Display

• Multiple views

• Principal view

• Auxiliary view

• Section view

• Detail view

Pre_ST7 ST7

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Other Productivity Enhancements

• Auto-Balloon and Alignment Shape Enhancements

• Auto-Balloon with pre-defined direction

• Parts List Dialog – Balloon Tab

• Alignment Shape Modify

• Localize balloon movement to

to modified segments.

• Reduce number of segments

on alignment shape

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Other Productivity Enhancements

• Input the scale value using delimiters ‘:’ such as (3:2, 1.5:1, etc.)

• Enable/Disable display of

empty callouts and text boxes

• Solid Edge Options – General Tab

• Action/Object workflow for

2D Pattern Command

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Contact, Ricky Black

Ricky Black

Product Manager Solid Edge Draft

and PMI

Siemens PLM Software

675 Discovery Drive

Suite 100

Huntsville, Al. 35806

Phone: 256-705-2631

Fax: 256-705-2695

E-mail:

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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