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mike miller

Definitely want feedback from someone who has used Solid Edge 2023 as the UI was redone in it, and a few of the changes were SolidWorks expat friendly. @matt certainly has some time on SE, and @mike miller I believe adopted it. I haven't logged in for awhile, sorry. I'm wearing several hats includi...

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WIth the database used with IDEAS, you did all of your work locally. The server didn't know anything about it until you checked it in. That was really nice, but we had some users that weren't great at checking parts in when they were done, which affected other users and assemblies. It also allowed ...

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Yes we do How do ECOs work in Solidworks PDM? In Teamcenter, Engineering Orders are their own item types that contain revisions. So EO000014 has a revision called EO000014/A. This method seems odd; I'm not sure why you would want to make a revision of an EO....??? image.png The reason I ask is beca...

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In our case, we use PDM so there is some history there for all part versions. For a quick look, we also have a PDF archive of all released drawings that we can quickly look through. Changes are officially documented in the ECO referenced on the drawing revision table. Those are also all kept as rec...

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Do you track changes in the item/part revision, or in the ECO, or both? (Let me say right away that I'm not talking about revision tables on drawings. I'm referring to recording the revision history of part XX in PDM.) If your coworker wants to see change history in 5 years for a part designed today...

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We call it a 'Non-Revision Change'. I drill it into users that it is primarily to make corrections to parts that haven't 'escaped' Engineering (i.e. they haven't hit the shop floor) or for changes that are strictly clerical (misspellings in a note, adding a missing dimension, etc). They are also ab...

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This is a conversation we just had today. Should all parts/items perpetually have one WIP revision on top of all released revisions? I thought it's a less-than-great idea, even though General Motors does it. But there is an upside; it allows you to make clerical changes without forcing a revision or...

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Keep assembly features in mind for use cases where material is removed. Here's a case we've had: Collar A is purchased form vendor. In ASM123 one occurrence is welded as-purchased, another occurrence gets a tapped hole and grease zerk before being welded. Our solution was to use the direct part file...

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Click the drop-down carrot and select customize.

You have to use modifier keys like Alt or Ctrl because SE uses a lot of context single keys during commands. (Also, I like to avoid using Shift combinations because typing in some text boxes will trigger that hotkey...

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I'd like some input on this, since I'm starting to consolidate tribal knowledge. Do you try to keep all CAD and PDM best practice data in one file, or do you spread it out into separate files for different sections of the software? Do you record tips as well as rules? Do you record the reasons for t...

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I downloaded them but got an error message when trying to open: "no translator available for this file type". The file size is about 4 KB so I'm inclined to think something must be corrupted.

mike miller

I don't like tax collectors but they're not evil enough to be killed. Also everyone is judged after they die, not before. So Jesus had a moment of weakness and killed someone in anger? Jesus became Evil for a moment? God could became Evil? Since "bad" one will go to Hell, so God and Devil...

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There are God in different culture. There are wars fought in name of God because "my God" is the only God. God is all loving but human are not. If God is all loving, why God don't allow human to worship "other" God? Since there is only one God, all God human worship is the same ...

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I'll say just let everyone believe what they believe. Don't force other to believe what you believe. Frederick_Law I'm not trying to force anything on anyone. At the same time, if you know something is true (in an absolute sense, not just for you) would you stay quiet? Is withholding the truth real...

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I kinda like FreeCAD. Looking back at what we've spent we could have hired a couple of programmers to work on a fork to implement what we need and accomplished the file management we needed. Bonus if the community would have merged the bits that they wanted back into master. Not to mention that suc...

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I have to think of this quote from Thoreau: "Technology is improved means to unintended ends."

mike miller

I definitely see the benefits there, it's just not something I do. The only imported geometry I use is for packaging, and doesn't require modification. (Although there are some vendors whos models are so bad they could use some rework.) Uh huh. Like engines with 1700 surface bodies..... <()>

mike miller

I'm not opposed to the idea, in theory. I've done very little with it in practice, but I have yet to come across a part where I say to myself "It would be easier if I could just drag this face instead of editing the sketch." Having said that, most of what I draw is square and boxy. If I w...

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Solid Edge has something similar in assemblies: Peer Variables. It is an amazing tool for assembly work.

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@SPerman are you switching to NX?

mike miller

Thanks for all your kind remarks. I know a lot of people are reticent to discuss "religion" and that made me hesitant to post here. At the same time, it's really NOT about what works for me or for you. What matters is what's true, and we should never be ashamed of the truth or even admitti...

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Here is a brief update on myself and the last several months in particular. I felt led to post something here, in the event it helps someone it will be worth it all. I have to admit; I was getting sucked into the vortex of my job and all that pertains to it, especially CAD. It took awhile for God to...

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Current project: 44 ft firewood conveyor- modular construction, high-way towable, hydraulic lift, radial drive wheels to pile high and wide, optional radio controls for processor or loader operator.

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@mike miller how was the transition to Solidedge? Do SW parts and drawings import as seamlessly as they claim? Do assemblies keep their mates when imported? We never spent much time trying to do the whole structure because our SWX data was pretty bad. Any time you have multibody parts, it will be a...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:38 am Sounds like cable TV

It's like cable TV, except more expensive because cable TV is 2D and 3D'sperience is 3D. See?

mike miller

Actually not the case at all... Those 2 modelling features they shared were Ordered enhancements that are simply using some feature aspects of Sync that are better than what was previously implemented in Ordered. If you were in any way familiar with the Move/Rotate Face commands in Ordered, you wou...

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Configure Dimension does not come up when I right-click the dimension. I'm not quite sure how this works, but I'm also trying to avoid having to create a huge list of configurations in the pin model, to go along with the huge list of configurations in my assembly. Fortunately the pin model is a gen...

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I didn't like it at first, but I've learned to ignore it when I don't need it. The only time I've used it is if an initial mate puts a Part inside another one so I couldn't click on it to move it. When that happens I can click on it in the tree and use that triad to move it. That doesn't happen oft...

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@berg_lauritz That would help to speed things up even more, that if based upon preselected items, the context of what's shown in the mouse gestures would be amazing!!! How would that be significantly different from the existing context toolbar? (click to select, pick command - vs - click to select,...

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We have seen this problem after running a DXF export macro. It seems like the macro leaves some bend lines visible instead of hidden.

mike miller

Another great pet peeve: If you have pre-defined views in your drawing template and you insert a part that has one configuration and has the sheet metal feature in it it will automatically create another configuration with a flat pattern, because it automatically selects the view palette when doing...

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The less people know about how laws and sausages are made, the better they will sleep at night. -Otto von Bismarck

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Starting to see the "future version" error since we're still on 2021 and I'm not hot to upgrade. So.......I just open SWX 2022 files directly in SE. Works like a charm.

mike miller

There was a time, back in the ancient days of computers, where the OS didn't try and "help" you select text. You put the cursor where you wanted the selection to begin, and drug it to where you wanted the selection to end. I hate the fact that Windows decides it knows what you want to sel...

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If SWX is this bad at simply repositioning imported geometry, how in the world can it reliably modify it?

mike miller

Solidworks finally decided to implement Synchronous.

mike miller

I don't know how SWX records it, but I know it can be way off the deep end sometimes.

mike miller

I never cease to be amazed at SE's BOM capabilities. You can get just about anything you want in a few clicks.

mike miller

Have you tried setting this option (in the subassembly) to "Promote"?

mike miller

Yeah, huh. Maybe now's a good time to mention that I'm presenting at Realize Live. This one on imported data and one on subd modeling. This looks a lot like PLM World. :| Someone tell me what to say at this point. Kinda miss the old days when I knew exactly what to say, and we had events for mid-ra...

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What's Twitter?

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https://event.sw.siemens.com/realize-live-americas/agenda?filters=165096 If you're interested in Solid Edge or any Siemens products you don't want to miss this. Virtual attendance is free, and you don't need to be a customer AFAIK. Lots of tips/tricks and even a sneak peek at SE 2023. :D They even l...

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When the draft is in a direction different from the extrude, or the draft has to be applied as a separate feature, fillets in the sketch and fillets before the shell generally hurt the chances of draft working. You have to think of Draft, Fillet and Shell as being like a Rock, Paper, Scissors game....

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Saw this the other day on I-69 toward Port Huron/Sarnia. @AlexLachance, any idea who makes this?

mike miller

I'm getting better at Sync Tech and starting to appreciate it more........but he last change was too much and SE gave up the ghost. Is there some sort of Auto-recover? I half expected it but relaunching didn't give any options. image.png In Solid Edge's defense, this is 2022 sp0 I believe. image.pn...

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Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:48 pm Is it a holiday and no one told me? There's been zero traffic today.

Palm Monday?

mike miller

This new "enhancement" would explain why mirroring is broken: http://help.solidworks.com/2022/English ... f6eb51#Pg0

mike miller

Hmmm......... April Fools?

mike miller

Nothing was deleted... so i dont really understand why it mess up the internal ID... Wait... now thinking back about it... i DID change a dimension to driven....but how is this affecting the internal ID ~~~~ I've had similar things happen with Insert Part. In this case it was a form of master model...

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