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+ | ====== Advice on using Solid Edge together with Rhino from Gary Lucas ====== | ||
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+ | Learning Solid Edge is much tougher than it needs to be because the | ||
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+ | documentation is very poor, and they plan on you paying a VAR to teach you. | ||
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+ | Join the Solid Edge newsgroup, a good bunch of people there. | ||
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+ | can only join if you are a customer and your support is paid up. So let's | ||
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+ | say you wanted to know more about Solid Edge before plunking down 5 grand. | ||
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+ | You are just out of luck because you can't ask the real power users that | ||
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+ | hang out in newsgroups. | ||
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+ | impressive Rhino' | ||
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+ | I've posted two documents that will help you. [[http:// | ||
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+ | good, there is no part 2, I keep hitting on him to write it. The [[http:// | ||
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+ | couldn' | ||
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+ | I have only exported a few things from Rhino to Solid Edge. Individual | ||
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+ | objects come into Solid Edge as Design Bodies. | ||
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+ | shrink wrapped, no parametric data, and are not adjustable. | ||
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+ | ago they added editing of Design Bodies so that you can fillet edges, make | ||
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+ | holes etc, and use a Design Body as a base that you can add or subtract | ||
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+ | from. So you are kind of out of luck if you want adjustable parts. | ||
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+ | edge has surfacing tools now. However I find them incredibly crude compared | ||
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+ | to Rhino' | ||
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+ | In Solid Edge every part is in a separate file. Solid edge relies heavily | ||
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+ | on the Windows folder format for keeping track of everything. | ||
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+ | ONLY linked into an assembly, unlike Rhino which actually loads a Block | ||
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+ | definition. | ||
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+ | the likelihood of losing an entire model is very small. | ||
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+ | that every assembly references your library. | ||
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+ | to a customer you must use Insight to package all the pieces. | ||
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+ | customer must either keep all the parts separate from his library, or put | ||
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+ | the parts in the library and relink them. | ||
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+ | I would like you to think long and hard about how you organize your parts | ||
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+ | library. | ||
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+ | However if you think about the workflow of designing piping you realize that | ||
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+ | is a poor way to work. Better to organize them as: Plumbing\PVC\2\Fittings. | ||
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+ | This way when you are piping 2" PVC pipe you go in the library and instantly | ||
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+ | have only PVC fittings, in size 2" and all kinds. | ||
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+ | until you are done 2" and then move to another folder for the next material | ||
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+ | or size. Our library is NOT organized this way and I have to constantly | ||
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+ | move up and down through folders for every single part! You must | ||
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+ | understand, one a part is named, and placed in a folder it can NEVER be | ||
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+ | renamed or moved, or your assembly falls apart. | ||
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+ | I have been using Solid Edge for about a year, and studying my ass off to | ||
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+ | learn more. It has paid off in that I am now in charge of solid Edge | ||
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+ | administration at our company, despite the fact that the original user has | ||
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+ | been using it for 4 years. | ||
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+ | don't hesitate to email me directly. | ||
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+ | Gary H. Lucas | ||
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