And then try to show a label without showing a view arrow. SW can do this too, but it’s more convoluted, and you have to ask someone who knows where to find it. It worked ok if placed a synchronous Hole feature, but not with a strictly imported feature.Īnother nice one is the straightforward ability to use view labels. I would think that with all of the feature recognition powers of Synchronous Technology, it would be able to recognize a counterbored hole. The one difficulty was that it won’t automatically build a hole callout for imported geometry. This is probably not something you can do without any explanation, but you can build automated callouts that pull information from the geometry.
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I ran into a couple of things in Solid Edge that are particularly nice. Sounds like marketing/branding sound bite speak to me, not like tools for design. Like FeatureXpert, DimXpert, SelectionManager, RealView.
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SW has a lot of “doodads” with cute, misspelled, capitalized names. You (or I anyway) don’t get the feeling that Solid Edge is broken up by multiple egos trying to make their mark on the software. You will hear me say this time and time again on this blog, because it is really true. One impression that hits me is that the functions in SE seem more integrated and better thought out. Like SW, Solid Edge is not basic CAD software, so you can’t hope to understand all the options available in a cursory examination. So I’m going through the drawings functions in Solid Edge, and finding it easy to use, easy to apply typical dimensions and annotations. Still, I recognize that one of the strengths of Solid Edge throughout the years (besides sheet metal) was widely considered to be its capabilities to do 2D drawings. And although I was a CAD admin at a company that made a lot of fully dimensioned and toleranced drawings, and wrote our drawings standards, I have to admit, that kind of thing isn’t really my first love.
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When I was younger, I had to make fully dimensioned 2D drawings of all my parts (because I was also the guy machining the parts in many cases), so I know how to make drawings. First article (off the mold tool) inspections are really the important thing with plastic parts, and from there, if you keep the process and the material the same, you’re not likely to see big changes. Plastic parts tend to get critical or inspection dimension drawings, with a few overalls, and maybe a target part weight, and just some notes about fit. I tease about charging customers 3X scale for 2d drawings. If you follow my Dezignstuff blog, you probably know I’m not much for 2D drawings.