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Jaylin Hochstetler

There are a few things to remember when using them: If something applies to all members, set the Apply to All Members switch, and then don't forget to turn it off when editing individual members. There are certain features that can only be applied to All Members, so they will be disabled till the s...

Jaylin Hochstetler

I've messed around a little bit with Family of Assemblies in Solid Edge, but it seems to be kind of a convoluted mess. Unless I just don't fully grasp it. From what I see it doesn't really seem worth the hassle to use for different configurations. Does anyone out there actually effectively use it? I...

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As @Jaylin Hochstetler mentioned it is worth checking with the company doing the cutting. The company I work for also uses BLM Artube which makes this very easy as you can import an assembly and it will convert it to a single tube with notches for bending. For what it's worth. We used quite a bit o...

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Hello, It's my first post here. I have registered because I have to make aluminium DJ table prototype which I designed in Solidworks, mostly using weldments. I planned using 3D laser to cut profiles, but I have problem transfering my frames to straight profiles needed by manufacturer. I tried using...

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I found this company https://www.acuitylaser.com/product/laser-sensors/2d-3d-laser-scanners/accuprofile-820-laser-scanner/ that makes a laser that would get the entire profile in one snapshot. It would output the x and y values and then i would have to import that into CAD via macro. But it's $1800...

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Do you really need a clean CAD profile? I guess you just Laser/Plasma/Waterjet your blade. So as long as you get a scanned profile that can be cut, you're good. The only reason I need a clean CAD profile is for designing the bottom blade. The bottom blade is inverted (mirrored) from the top blade a...

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I found this company https://www.acuitylaser.com/product/laser-sensors/2d-3d-laser-scanners/accuprofile-820-laser-scanner/ that makes a laser that would get the entire profile in one snapshot. It would output the x and y values and then i would have to import that into CAD via macro. But it's $18000...

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I've recently been poking around with Odoo, https://www.odoo.com/. Anyone on here have any experience with it?

Jaylin Hochstetler

All you need is X and Y value. X along length on profile. Y on up and down of profile. Easy to import with macro into CAD and make polyline. Add smoothing algorism. It can go straight to laser cut. https://lase-solutions.com/products/distance-sensors/lase-1000t-line/lase-1000t-black-line/ Sensor wi...

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3D scan will give you a mesh which you can't fold or unfold. Or make any changes. Probably better to manual measure and sketch. Actually all you need is the profile. 2D laser profile: https://www.keyence.com/ss/products/measure/select/application/shape_profile.jsp?ad_local=cbgt CMM could work with ...

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They don't have drawing of their roller? I did one 20 years ago for roof shingles. Need to know roller diameter. Some of them have drawings of what the roll former is supposed to produce but the roll former doesn't actually produce exactly what the print specifies due to the placement of the roller...

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Where I work we build shears for cutting metal roofing panels (https://dyna-cut.com/) and the shears that go to the roll forming shops we need to design the blade set specifically to their roll former to achieve a satisfactory cut. Any recommendations on what device to use to reverse engineer a prof...

Jaylin Hochstetler

The 2023-2024 Solid Edge interface. Just started using it and it's

Everything is so close to the same color

If only the marketing team wouldn't have gotten ahold of the interface...
I'm getting used to it though...

Jaylin Hochstetler

Jaylin, are you set as the "Document Controller (see field on the Vault Definition page or set in the SE Admin tool if using Options.xml)? I believe only the Document Controller (I thought it was called Change Coordinator) can change status on Baselined/Released/Obsolete documents. Thanks. Tha...

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As to setting a specific part to Obsolete, this can be done using the File Properties form, specifically the SEStatus property. Thank you for your response. I seemingly am not able to change the status after it's released because it's read only. image.png Is there a setting for this in SEAdmin? I h...

Jaylin Hochstetler

Hi everyone! I posted over in the Siemens forum but didn't get any response so I thought I'd try here. It's been awhile since I visited here, been so crazy busy lately. I just started a new job, the sole engineer (our family business https://dyna-cut.com/) I'm switching this company from SW to SE an...

Jaylin Hochstetler

Hold down the CTRL key to unselect an already selected component when you are in the Select Components Step. FYI, that goes for any feature that involves selecting items. It's kind of nice because then you don't accidentally deselect items, but it's not very intuitive. It took me a bit to discover ...

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I really appreciate you providing this info. If/when I leave Solidworks/PDM it will be for a siemens product, most likely SE for budgetary reasons. One of the things that was really nice with NX/TC was that it wasn't a file structure, per say. It was a database with pointers. So if I have a part th...

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Dwight, It looks like SE/TC is more tightly integrated. SE has a very nice Cache assistant for checking the status of the items in your cache. image.png Can you just do a normal save in SW or do you have to use a "TC" save? In SE we can do a normal save which saves it in your cache then yo...

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Jaylin We are now using SW and Teamcenter. I am curious what improvements we'd see in Teamcenter if we switched to SE (without getting into SW vs SE). Thanks Dwight I don't know I've never used the Embedded Client for SW. Do you have a Structure Editor for SW? image.png I'd imagine with SE and TC b...

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SW geeks, how would you do this in SW? How would you flatten a bend like that in SW. I don't think it's possible in SW...

Jaylin Hochstetler

I went from SW to SE and wouldn't go back. I sympathize with you Pernils . Sorry SW fanatics... We do machinery design with lots of sheet metal so we use sync very heavily. If it would not be for sync the switch would not have been worth it. If I would be doing all ordered modeling I would probably ...

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Sorry, I didn't see this post till now, @DLZ_SWX_User. I don't recall seeing that behavior before. I'm glad you were able to figure something out.

FYI, we moved to SolidEdge so my knowledge in SW is waning... And my knowledge in SE api is increasing...

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edit: see Kenny's response below, it's much better and doesn't require API. I had to look it up. https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/docs/se/2020/api/webframe.html#SolidEdgeConstants~DocumentTypeConstants.html and this example can be found in the navigation tree: Programmer's Guide > Solid Edge...

Jaylin Hochstetler

FYI, If you ever want to do this in .NET, which I did recently your code needs to look like this Public Enum ShellAddToRecentDocsFlags Pidl = &H1 Path = &H2 PathW = &H3 End Enum <DllImport("Shell32.dll", BestFitMapping:=False, ThrowOnUnmappableChar:=True)> Private Shared Sub SH...

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I don't know what the housekeeper is, sorry. You can filter on file extension type, but if I'm not mistaken your results will not be accurate. There can be sheet metal parts in a .par file and regular bodies/parts in a .psm file. The latter not as common as the former. When editing a solid part fil...

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No :) I am just evaluating the software SE and comparing it to SW what is possible. In SW this is also not doable the flanges need to be separate body to flatten it but thought SE can! And hope some expert knows the answer. There's lots of good info of the 2 in this thread https://www.cadforum.net/...

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Jaylin Hochstetler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:25 pm
we have our Sheet Metal Template setup with the gauge table preloaded which makes it faster

I just realized this is a mute point b/c you can do the same thing in your Part Template.

Jaylin Hochstetler

I don't know why they still keep with the .psm file type. The file can be switched back and forth. From writing our auto DXF add-in I learned that there's a meta-data tag in the file to identify it at sheet metal or not. Cannot go by the file type any more. I did not realize that. What is it called...

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Thanks all for the tips will try this out! 1. Is there any need to use the .psm sheet metal template? What are the benefits of saving in this format. As I could just have .prt and the switch between when needed! We still use the .psm b/c it's a lot easier for automation (the SE Housekeeper https://...

Jaylin Hochstetler

If you need a single function from Premium that Classic is missing such as the example of "Point Cloud", you can add on a license for just that function with Classic. You do not need to purchase Premium to get it. This is especially useful when supporting many users with concurrent floati...

Jaylin Hochstetler

The UI toolkit SE was using hasn't changed (same 3rd party). What has changed is the appearance which is being driven by some new guidelines which intend to make all Xcelerator products look similar. Not sure what you are referring to in regard to it causing crashes. Typically, crashes only occurs ...

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I have not yet used SE 2023 yet but I'm kind of irked that they changed the interface. With the current color scheme you can instantly see what a function is. The new interface the functions are all similarly colored making them hard to distinguish. I imagine I'll get used to it. I'm hoping that now...

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len_1962 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:42 am Took a SW and Key Shot class here at ASU, made all the solids with SW, here are some of the results.
learn alot about how much I do not know about photos

Wow! That's awesome! It's crazy what you can do with CAD/rendering. Such as https://grabcad.com/library/ram-trx-1

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Attached is a macro along with the source code (VB.NET) I made that searches through a directory, finds any files that don't have a where used and records it in a log file. It is especially useful for cleaning data before uploading to TeamCenter. A fair amount of the code comes from the Housekeeper ...

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That's the goal, but only users and content can get us there. You should be able to read without logging in. Google should be able to give you search results without logging in. We do get #1 for "CAD agnostic forum" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cad+agnostic+forum&t=newext&atb=v281-1&...

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All I am looking for is a quick and easy way to show / hide the reference planes for a body in an assembly. The top level assembly and the sub assembly both give me a checkbox in the history tree to turn them on and off. Is it possible to get the same option for the components in the assembly / sub...

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I just noticed the 3DXperience platform has an interesting and awful interface layout design. It can easily be accounted for that each tab is 30% and that the middle is 40% of the interface. In short term, the totality of both tabs should be more compelling then what's in the middle. Not only that,...

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@matt you're popular!
email from Siemens:

https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/solidedge/ ... wiia420000

Jaylin Hochstetler

Hi everyone. As long time SE user I was a bit eager to learn a new cad system when changing job. The initial amusement quickly turned south. It only took 2 weeks before one start to write keywords like "Solid Works" "sucks" and so on in Google. The software is a mess both in UI ...

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Fall back or fall forward..... SolidWorks feel more nature since it's how a 3d mouse work, push the part away (Roll up), and pull the part toward you (Roll down) But a lot of programs have seemed to standardize based on how Photoshop works so maybe 2D systems are to blame. Actually every other syst...

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We looked into Composer, but I think it's overpriced for not more than it can do. It's a screenshot program on steriods. Especially if you compare it to SolidEdge Technical Publications. SE Tech Pub is cheaper plus it is quite a bit more capable. Unlike Composer you can do everything in Tech Pub you...

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I didn't want to clutter up the VAR discussion thread with stories of "I've been so busy," so I'll do it here . . . Let's just say that I've been running around like a 3-legged cat trying to bury poop on a frozen pond. Really, really, really busy at work, and there are a TON of home proje...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 11:00 am If Pugs could fly?

That's cool! Did you model that yourself?

Jaylin Hochstetler

This for something different but I sometimes use the Symmetry Check feature in SW to make sure my part is symmetrical. I was trying to figure out if SE had something similar until I discovered the Reflective Plane feature. It's not really intended for symmetry check but it works. This is needed some...

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I ended up using .Net 4.8 Framework
There is .NET Standard (5.0 - 6.0), .NET Framework and .NET Core. So confusing...

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I am learning VB.NET and most of the code I look off of use Marshal.GetActiveObject to connect to a running instance of SolidEdge. Marshal.GetActiveObject is not supported in NET 6. It appears the last supported version was NET 4.8 Framework. What do you use instead in NET 6? Or do you simply not us...

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Over the past few months I find myself coming back to this thread over and over again. There's just too much knowledge here to pass up! On a related note, you can double click a face in a part or an assembly, and it'll show all the driving dimensions. I don't know how fast you are with the measure ...

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Imics13 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:40 am Hi Guys,

Watch this, there is a 3min short sneak peek section:
https://event.sw.siemens.com/realize-li ... ion/859560

BR,
Imi

That's just enough to make you salivate...

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