Bakery equipment manufacturer shrinks design time 50%

AMF Canada designs better with Solid Edge. With design time down 50 percent, other results included a key reduction and near elimination of sheet metal rework. Assembly times dropped 20 percent and the food processing machinery company was able to meet critical delivery times.

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Performance Improvements with ST6 MT6 for all Solid Edge Insight and TC Users

Hi all Solid Edge Insight and TC users,

There are performance improvements made with ST6 MP6 that I wanted to share with you.

Limited Update and Limited Save (must be requested for ST6 but will come standard with ST7):

You need to request the add-in (email Madison.rye@allyplm.com with request for 64 bit only and I will request permission from Siemens).  You will get a link to download the add-in (64 bit) that delivered the ST6 UI to get access to this functionality in ST6 MP6.

For each client this add-in needs to be loaded and registered by the following procedure:

Copy the contents of the downloaded zip file into the Program Files\Solid Edge ST6\Program folder (or wherever you loaded Solid Edge if not loaded to the default location).
Locate the file registerLimUpdate64R.bat (one of the files copied into the Program folder in step #1) and double click it.

This will register the Add-In so Solid Edge can see it.

The add-in will make available the following UI located in the Large Assembly tab (which should be newly created by the Add-In).

Assembly features – Fix to increase performance if you use many assembly features:  

After MP6 is installed, please add the following registry key…

In order to realize this fix in ST6 MP6 and forward, you have to add 'MembassyBindOnce' as new DWORD (32-bit) value in the registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Unigraphics Solutions\Solid Edge\Version 106\DEBUG] hive.  To turn it ON or enable these fixes, its value has to be set to 1.  0 turns it OFF or disables these fixes.

Reverse Property sync: 

Make sure this is on by checking after loading ST6MP6 … 

The dll provided in the fix does this by creating registry key enableInsightRPS = 0 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Unigraphics Solutions\Solid Edge\Version 106\SolidEdge_Insight 

O is so it does not do reverse prop synch saving time on the download

1 is so that it does do reverse prop synch taking more time on the download

Thanks,

Madison Rye, Application Engineering Manager at Ally PLM 

Solid Edge Tip of the Week - May 5, 2014

Solid Edge Help

The Solid Edge Help is a very useful tool for users who are just starting to learn Solid Edge or for someone who may have forgotten how to use a certain command.

To quickly access more information on a command that is active, all you have to do is press F1 to bring up the help for that command. The other way to access help on a certain command would be to hold down the Shift key and then press F1. This will put a question mark next to your cursor and you are able to select any command in the ribbon that you want help with: 

The default behavior for the Help in ST6 is to open in a web browser. I find this extremely helpful as I can quickly copy the URL of whatever topic I was looking at and share it with anyone that has access to the internet. If you don’t have access to the internet or like the local help better, you have the option to switch the way Help is displayed. To change this setting go to the Solid Edge Application Button – Solid Edge Options – Helpers Tab and scroll to the very bottom. There is an option here that says “Use my web browser to display help”:

 

One of the reasons I like using the local help is the Favorites tab. After searching for help on a command, I can go to the Favorites tab and press the Add button at the bottom of the window. Whenever I come back into Help I can access my favorites and find the information I need quickly and easily:  

Ben Weisenberger
Application Engineer at Ally PLM Solutions