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How to Set a Different View from Front as the Default View When Creating a Draft

Caitlin Pope — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 06:40:11 +0000

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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Solid Edge ST8 – MSI Maintenance Pack 1 Announcement

Alan — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 01:56:39 +0000

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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Understanding Templates and Styles

Alan — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 03:24:35 +0000

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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Customising Solid Edge

Alan — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:42:28 +0000

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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Solid Edge Draft: Centre of mass symbol

Andrew Ecker — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 23:30:39 +0000

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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Solid Edge ST7 Parts List enhancement

Andrew Ecker — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:46:54 +0000

Siemens have added a couple of view enhancements to the Parts list in ST7. The image below shows how to activate them and what they do. 1,254 total views, no views today

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Solid Edge Tip – Directional Fence Selection

Andrew Ecker — Tue, 20 May 2014 21:57:08 +0000

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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Using the Alt key in Solid Edge

Alan — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:11:25 +0000

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 Tip: Selecting in Draft or Solid Edge 2D

Andrew Ecker — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:55:35 +0000

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 ? Solid Edge has the powerful ability to filter based on layer and element type and this is setup in the Select Options dialog

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Solid Edge Tips: March

Alan — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:57:11 +0000

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: Auto sketch relationships. In an Ordered Sketch dragging geometry to existing keypoints will automatically create new 2D relationships. Dimension value selection

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