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Solid Edge University UK 2015July 8th, Silverstone UTC

Synchronous Hands On

Grant McLeod – Prion Cutting Edge

2014-05-13


Siemens PLM Software

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Agenda

• Who I am

• What you will learn

• Synchronous Technology

• Design Intent

• Live Rules

• Working with Imported Data

• Feature Re-Use

• Questions

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Who I am

Grant McLeodSenior Applications EngineerPrion Cutting Edge

I have been with Prion Cutting Edge since 2011 and am responsible for SolidEdge support, training and consultancy. My main of expertise is CAE and FEA.

I have extensive knowledge of other CAD/CAE applications including; Femap,NX, Ansys, Plysim, Maxsurf, Autodesk; Inventor, Mech. Desktop, 3ds andAveva.

Before joining Prion Cutting Edge, I worked as a Design and Process Engineerfor a manufacturer of luxury watercraft.

I have degrees in Marine Engineering and Composites Design andManufacture.

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What you will learn?

This hands on session will introduce the fundamentals of using Synchronous Technology.

The key concepts we will cover are;

Design Intent Live-Rules The Steering Wheel Feature Re-Use How to Work with Imported Data.

Understanding of these key components will help you on your journey to unlock the power of Synchronous Technology.

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Let’s get started

Open Solid Edge ST8

Desktop Icon

Windows 7/8 SearchPress the Windows key,

type sol and Enter

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Navigate to and open our working part

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Choose the Iso Metric Part Template

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Run ‘Optimize’ on the imported geometry

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Like all imported geometry – the tree contains no features or history

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We will use the feature library to add in another lug feature – browse to the working folder

Feature library lets us store commonly used features

for re-use at any time

In this example, we have a lug, counterbore hole and some rounding saved as a

feature.

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Drag the feature library part in and use F3 to lock to the highlighted face below.

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Left click on the face to ‘drop’ the part

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Use the tool plane to move the part – left click on the tool plane

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Move your mouse to the arc edge and the Feature Library part should snap into position – left click again to place it.

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The library geometry has been added as a face set. Right click on this in pathfinder and choose ‘Attach’.

The face set will be added to the model as

solid geometry!

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The lug is now a Solid feature!

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This face needs to be deleted, pick it and press delete

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The face has now been removed and the hole feature is restored.

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Use Recognise holes to add the hole features to our model tree

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The holes are now listed and grouped in Pathfinder.

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We will now use Synchronous Technology to make some design changes to this part.

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Rotate the cutout faces

Pick this face and then click on the blue orb at the handle origin and move the steering

wheel to the centre of the arc.As before, hovering the pointer over

the edge of the arc will cause the steering wheel to snap to the centre.

Left click to place.

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Turn on the Parallel Live Rule

Click into the advanced design

intent button

Turn on the Parallel Live Rule

This will keep the parallel faces together when we move the geometry in the next step. Live Rules preserve our design intent without the need for

extraneous dimensions and relationships.

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Rotate the cutout faces

Click on the steering wheel torus

Rotate the face back 5º. Notice how the parallel face moves. Solid Edge also

detects that there is symmetric faces and moves them too. Click to place the face.

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Modify the arc cutout

Use Ctrl & T to switch to a top view

Hover the cursor over the face below

Before pressing F3, use the ‘N’ key to align the

crosshairs with the edge shown. The edge will highlight green. Note – you may need to press ‘N’ more than once.

Once aligned, use F3 to lock to the plane.

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Draw the profile shown below

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Cut the sketch region out

Left click to select the region created by the sketch

Extrude the profile down to the keypoint shown. Note – You may

have to change your keypoint filter.

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Add additional holes to the model

Pick the line command and use F3 to lock to this face

Start the sketch in line with the centrepoint

Snap the line to the endpoint shown and then press ‘S’. The line will then become symmetric.

Dimension the line as shown

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Pick the hole command and set the options up as below.

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Place holes at the endpoints of the line

Hide the sketch

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Dimension the holes

Dimension the left hand side hole as shown. Notice how the other hole updates to match.

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Select the face shown and extend through the part

TIP – Use the ‘P’ key to disable

the coplanar Live Rule.

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Add a 12mm Hole to the face shown, position is central between the faces

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Go to the top view again (Ctrl & T) and fence select the geometry shown.

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Use Ctrl & I to return to an Isometric View

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Position the steering wheel on the midpoint shown

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Using the linear handle, move the geometry as shown

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Change the solve option as shown below

Notice how the model behaviour changes based on our solve definition

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Switch the solve back to select set and move the faces 5mm

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Move to a top view and fence select the central geometry

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Position the steering wheel at the arc center

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Use the torus on the steering wheel to rotate the geometry to -45 degrees

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Use Part Painter to paint the part steel colour

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Summary

• Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology enables us to work with non-native geometry as if it was created in Solid Edge.

• We can edit, delete, re-use and manipulate this data, often faster than is possible in the native CAD system.

• Synchronous Technology at ST8 is even easier to pick up, this should enable new users to Synchronous to get more productive in even less time.

• Synchronous user controls are simple, intuitive and powerful.

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This concludes the hands-on session

You may use any remaining time to experiment with the Synchronous tools available in Solid Edge ST8.

I hope you found todays session beneficial, please feel free to ask any questions.

Thank you

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Questions?

Grant McLeodSenior Applications Engineer

Phone: 01865 981500

[email protected]

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