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With a .par open, select Application button -> New -> “Drawing of Active Model” to create a drawing from the model: Make sure that “Run Drawing View Creation Wizard” is checked and select “OK”: Do not place the view yet and in the View Wizard toolbar select “View Wizard – Drawing View Layout”: Change the
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Note: The Solid Edge ST8 Maintenance Pack format and process has changed PLEASE READ CAREFULLY Release Notes: Microsoft Installer (MSI) Maintenance Packs – Beginning with Solid Edge ST8, Maintenance Packs are delivered as and installed using Microsoft Installer (MSI) technology. Solid Edge MSI based Maintenance Packs are installed and tracked as Product Updates. • MSI Product
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Templates When you install Solid Edge, a number of template files are installed into the C:/Program Files/Solid Edge ST7/Template folders (split into sub-folders to define the drawing standards). Each folder will contain five files that cover the five different environments – Part, Sheet Metal, Assembly, Weldment and Draft. These files hold the pre-configured layout and
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There are some tasks in using a CAD program that are repetitive or commonly used and you think “why can’t this be simplified?”. Generally these revolve around sketching or draughting functions and these are just the sort of things that can be easily programmed using visual basic. Solid Edge delivers a number of sample macros with
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Ever had to place a Centre of mass on a drawing view? New in Solid Edge ST7 is a Centre of mass symbol. The video shows how this is done.
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Siemens have added a couple of view enhancements to the Parts list in ST7. 1,254 total views, no views today
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Introduced in ST6, the Directional Fence selection method is the default setting when picking objects in Draft and ordered Part sketches. What does it do? Can I restore the pre-ST6 default? This is what it does Dragging from left to right selects only geometry completely inside the fence as shown below. Dragging from right to
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At the risk of looking lazy (it is a very short working week after all), this weeks blog post is a link to the Siemens Solid Edge community blog. I read this article and just had to post it here too. There’s so much good information in it. Useful for so many, in so many
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Solid Edge Drafting and Solid Edge 2D Tip – Can’t Select stuff ? Ever had the situation where you can’t select something in Solid Edge Draft / Solid Edge 2D window ? 535 total views, no views today
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Each month we endeavour to add some Solid Edge Tips to our site to keep you up-to-date with new features and items you may have missed. Here are our Tips for March: 523 total views, no views today
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Solid Edge 2D Drafting offers an immediate advantage with production-proven capabilities including innovative parametric drafting tools, drawing layout, Goal Seeking, diagramming, and dimensioning. It is fully compliant with ISO, ANSI, DIN and JIS , and it’s absolutely FREE to download and use. Solid Edge 2D Drafting eases the transition from 2D AutoCAD with import wizards,
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This video shows how to take existing imported 3D data and link it to the corresponding 2D (dwg) data to end up with editable parts that update the draft files. 518 total views, no views today
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