Articles on ‘Drafting’

Understanding Smart Dimension

28 August 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Parts, Solid Edge, Tips

When in the draft environment, you may wish to place some overall dimensions on an isometric view. The only tool that will give you true dimensions is the Smart Dimension tool. 550 total views, no views today

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Shuffling Dimensions

1 August 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Solid Edge, Tips

The “Distance Between” command places a dimension that measures the distance between elements or key-points. The first dimension placed will define the datum from which all subsequent dimensions are measured from (a right mouse click will reset the datum for the next dimension group). When the position of the second dimension is placed, you can

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Diagramming/Schematics using Solid Edge (or free 2D SE Draft)

7 June 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Tips

Solid Edge diagramming lets you create electrical, P&ID (process and instrument designs) and other diagrams, using standard libraries of 2D (AutoCAD) blocks and quickly connecting them with associative connectors (figure 1). Three main components make up the diagramming capabilities: blocks, connectors and the ability to convert native DWG blocks on the fly. 1,444 total views, no

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Dimensioning to a projected intersection

18 April 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Tips

Imagine wanting to dimension the length of the angled face from the projected intersection of the 2 faces. 563 total views, no views today

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Constraining imported 2D geometry

13 April 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Tips

When you import 2D geometry from a DXF or DWG file, Solid Edge will translate the data and load it into a 2D Model view, but this is only the first step of the process. 528 total views, no views today

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Changing Font Size of a Parts List

21 March 2012, by Alan 1 Comment
Drafting, Solid Edge, Tips

There are times when you may wish to reduce the font size of the parts list on your drawing to allow it to fit the depth of the page rather than having it wrap into a second column. 1,044 total views, no views today

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Sheet metal bend direction in draft

9 March 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Sheet Metal, Solid Edge, Tips

When you you are in the draft environment, it is possible to use callouts to label the bend direction, bend angle, etc using special callout labels. 502 total views, no views today

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Multiple Parts Lists on the Same Assembly

16 February 2012, by Alan 1 Comment
Drafting

I was recently asked how you could have 2 separate drawing views (using different display configurations on the same assembly) in the same draft file and both views have a linked parts list that start their numbering from one. To achieve this, place the first view using display configuration 1 (the head in this example)

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Using Sheet labels in the drawing border

31 January 2012, by Alan No Comments
Drafting, Solid Edge, Tips

When you are building your template draft file, you will commonly set up a drawing border which is pre-set with certain (callout) fields that will display properties from the parts or assemblies that are placed on the sheet. It is also possible to include properties from the active draft file and one case you may

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