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KennyG

For SaaS it makes sense.....for desktop software, it's a cash grab, customer lock-in strategy from companies that have mature products and markets and can't figure out how to sell more software. Imagine if all cars could only be bought on lease. I'd prefer if software companies wouldn't go the way ...

KennyG

I do something similar with threaded rod that will be secured in concrete with epoxy. If it needs 6" embedment in the concrete I'll model it with the Top Plane at 6" from the bottom face. When I mate it in the Assembly its Top Plane gets mated to the surface of the concrete. If the materi...

KennyG

I think the only tool available that may help this is called "Clean Sketch". It is supposed to remove overlapped duplicated elements and elements under a user defined size (points and small fragments). Below is the Help page on the command: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/246738425/P...

KennyG

Guessing you are the same user who recently asked the same question on the SE Community here:
https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/ques ... for-se2023

KennyG

It works fine for us because we have a strict rule that all sheet metal parts have to be .psm, until someone doesn't abide by the rule... Do you remember what meta-data you used to find sheet metal in .par files? Jaylin, once a PAR becomes sheet metal, it will have all the sheet metal bend variable...

KennyG

SPerman What web browser are you using? Those should open and work in any modern current browser such as Chrome or Edge, but one is the Community forum (middle) and the other two are to the Siemens Learning site where you must have a subscription (I think students and community users can access a s...

KennyG

What is the hyperlink path that you were clicking on? I have not seen any required app needed to play any of the tutorials. Also might want to see if you can move this to the Solid Edge forum instead of the Welcome forum.

KennyG

New post on "dezigndtuff" BLOG...
https://dezignstuff.com/how-long-with-y ... orks-last/

KennyG

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 floatin...

KennyG

Just tested that and it works in SE 2023 community edition. It's not native sheet metal, but once flatten it gives pretty accurate result. I know this can be done with surfaces both in SW and SE, but this is on another level with solid bodies. Thanks oa SE Think of the SE Sheet Metal environment as...

KennyG

So, this can be done in Solid Edge, but you cannot use the typical Sheet Metal Flat Pattern command. I actually did this in SE 2023 in Part using a helical curve and a cross section representing the sheet metal shape to sweep along it, then used the Sweep command to create the solid. Then I went to ...

KennyG

IDeleting sketches, even in synchronous, is bad form, and to show that in a demo means that these people are still more on the blender side than the Solid Edge side. Funny you should say that! In some of the videos, they make it clear that they are aligning a lot of the controls with those in Blend...

KennyG

Having never used NX I would have been PO'd. Changing icons undermines the whole point of icons. It's a symbol that means something in a specific context for the sake of efficiency, both time and display space. Please tell me SE provided an exhaustive side by side chart that users can print out tha...

KennyG

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 no...

KennyG

This reminds me of a Star Trek quote from the Borg...

KennyG

I found this in the "Supplemental Terms" for Academic Edition. (Does that apply to the Community Edition?) image.png The Solid Edge Academic edition is not the same as the Student or Community editions as it is a "paid" license that Universities must buy (or be granted) and is c...

KennyG

I guess it would depend on the license agreement you acknowledged when you downloaded the software, but generally the act of creating the geometry is what is licensed and thus any output from it whether it be STEP, STL, etc. Some software companies pursue license violations very vigorously and other...

KennyG

Seems this forum has kind of "dried up" after the new wore off. Most folks are using the Siemens Community Solid Edge forum or the Solid Edge Users Facebook group it seems. Heck, even the Solid Edge sub-Reddit had responses.

KennyG

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KennyG

For those using Solid Edge 2023 in a production environment...

Any "showstoppers" or annoyances you want to share?

Any big productivity improvements you have found?

Your opinion of the new UI after using it for a couple weeks?

KennyG

Not only alignment with NX and the rest of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, but there are some UI goodies in there for those migrating over to SE from competing product too. Plentiful context toolbars and object - action workflows have been added (like select a sketch/region, and then Extrude it vs...

KennyG

Coincident is a jack of all trades relationship type that works to make any point type on any element type coincident with any other point/element. Concentric is a dedicated relationship type only working with circles and arcs requiring the axis' to be both parallel and coincident (or "colinear...

KennyG

Solid Edge has Dynamic Edit that can be invoked when an Ordered feature is selected that shows the features dimensions/sketch. Dim values can be edited and sketch elements dragged if underconstrained. In Sync mode, dimensions appear when the face/s they control are selected and of course faces can b...

KennyG

Another option is to use the Radial menu which has the Line command on the right inner section in all environments where Line is supported, and since it is on the inner section it also available with the "gesture" action.

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KennyG

I think we can all agree that for imported geometry, Synchronous is a "no brainer".

KennyG

On October 12th @ 10:00 EDT, Siemens will be launching Solid Edge 2023. This is not the release which should happen later in October, basically just the "What's New" presentation. Link below to register, but guessing it will be available on YouTube without registering later. https://solide...

KennyG

I have spend a decent amount of looking at tips and trix on youtube but when the instructor fail to show what the command should do and revert to talk what should have happen one start to wonder if this software witch is older the SE is something to actually invest in. Actually SolidWorks and Solid...

KennyG

If you are asking about Solid Edge, the icon will have a "shaky" symbol around it if it is NOT fully constrained.

KennyG

https://www.engineering.com/story/a-str ... -323417665

KennyG

KQuigley Not familiar with the 3Dxperience SolidWorks, but given that it includes SolidWorks Desktop, is it still is the same and you can still store files anywhere you want and don't have to use the 3Dx cloud? And can you still buy or subscribe to plain ole SolidWorks Desktop, or are they making t...

KennyG

I'm guessing many have upgraded their Windows 10 PC running Solid Edge to Windows 11 at this point. I'm curious if you found in doing so that Solid Edge is more responsive on Windows 11 than it was on Windows 10 after the OS upgrade? I'm asking because so far there has been a couple of reports that ...

KennyG

Interesting. Sounds like more ST. After reading that I'm a bit less regretful that we moved away from SE; we feared that ST would continue to get most of the development leaving ordered modeling on the back burner. Actually not the case at all... Those 2 modelling features they shared were Ordered ...

KennyG

During the Siemens Realize Live events, the Solid Edge Team lead by Dan Staples introduced a very small teaser of What's New in Solid Edge 2023. Haven't seen anyone post about it on the web except for the following Polish site, so you may have to use your web browser's "translate" feature ...

KennyG

All I can say is I cut my teeth on Bently Microstation... Back in the day... Some of you Rember DOS? Well Bently Microstation had a graphical user interface that was far superior to the AutoCad 12 under DOS! I was great. It is only that Microstation had a Dongel Copy protection device and AutoCad d...

KennyG

We have multiple engineering groups: Product Development, Contract, Manufacturing, Quality. In each of those groups we have mechanical engineers, drafter/designers, electrical engineers, test engineers, mfg techs. Only the drafter/designers are in SolidWorks everyday / all day. The mechanical engin...

KennyG

. . . until you get a new computer with a new operating system that doesn't play nice with old versions of SW. Yea, I think the MS OS strategy for Windows 10/11 with the perpetual updates was: So the customers don't want to support the hardware/software ecosystem with needless updates... Watch this!

KennyG

Great video Matt. Do you foresee doing some "in depth" videos regarding the individual feature tools of the Sub-D environment that would be considered "training"? Also, on the slide of the mouse that Mark did... I realize he used SolidWorks to create the standard BREP model, but ...

KennyG

DSS is putting way too much fucus on the 3D Experience platform, and getting everything on the cloud based do everything in one place platform... They are so invested in this new platform, they are ignoring the fact that probably 90% of their users just need a good, robust CAD package... We don't n...

KennyG

Actually I believe .NET Core was an early version of a cross-platform version of .NET which was called "Core" up to 3.1. It was missing a lot of things that Framework could do so wasn't quite ready to replace Framework on the Windows desktop. .NET 5 & 6 are the next sequential versions...

KennyG

You can do this roughly the same way using Solid Edge's Split command, but you will need to create surfaces from the inside faces and extend them to or beyond the outside faces to use as the Split "tool" prior to using Split. Then after you have Split it into multiple bodies, you can use t...

KennyG

Youhan It looks like you have assemblies of individual components. If it is brake formed sheet metal, model each part in the Sheet Metal file, otherwise if it is a simple extrusion then use Part. then assemble them in Assembly. You can also create and edit both Shaet Metal and Parts from within the...

KennyG

Speaking of which, why was @KennyG not in Vegas? We needed help to keep Big Matt in line. There's another story there, but again, someone else is going to have to tell that one. Matt, comes down to the old adage, "Is the juice worth the squeeze?". With my BETA work, I see all the "wh...

KennyG

Ronan1961 I unfortunately cannot open your SE files as I'm guessing you used the Community or Student license, and I have the Commercial license. I'll assume when these translated in, you have the body in Synchronous and what you are attempting to do would also be in Synchronous. Since I'm using my...

KennyG

@mike miller I wasn't there, so I cannot comment on what they showed. Was hoping it would have been streamed/recorded, but it wasn't. Usually those end up on their YouTube channel soon after.

We'll see what @matt has to say.

KennyG

bnemec wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 3:27 pm How am I supposed to place this dimension without adding sketch elements on the drawing view?

You turn on your IntelliSketch "Silhouette Point" and select that point when placing your Dimension Between.

Oh wait, wrong app

KennyG

I'll be curious to see what makes it "virtually". I've been told it will be a smaller curated selection.

KennyG

NX Continuous Release is essentially like Windows 10 releases like @Zhen-Wei Tee said.

Here is the FAQ that Siemens put together on it.
https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/nx-design/ ... ase-F-A-Q/

KennyG

Generating a Parasolid file (X_T or X_B) from Parasolid based apps (Solid Edge, NX, SolidWorks, Onshape, etc...) is not a translation. It simply writes the parasolid body out to a file, so it gives the most reliable way to transport 3D data between those systems.

KennyG

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:01 am I don't understand why I have to wait 3 hours to watch the exciting new video:

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Marketing trick to build anticipation. I see it's working...

KennyG

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:03 pm This is what I was used to seeing in NX. An origin, 3 planes and 3 axis.

Curious, why the XC, YC, ZC and the separate X, Y, Z?

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