Electrical switch manufacturer meets customers’ design requirements 30% faster

Long-Yuan Switch Equipment designs better with Solid Edge. Advanced sheet metal modeling tools shrink cycle time for electrical equipment by 30 percent. Other benefits delivered by Solid Edge include a 100 percent material use rate and greater agility in addressing domestic and international market trends as well as weathering economic downturns.

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Tip of the Week July 16

NX - Using "Paste Inside with Reference" in NX 9 to Copy Manufacturing Operations

Using “Paste Inside with Reference” instead of “Paste” to copy operations from one workpiece to another can save time when you need to make changes to operation parameters in the original operation.  With this new functionality in NX9 when a change is made to the original operation, the operations that were pasted with reference will automatically change.  You no longer need to change each operation which saves a lot of time especially if you have several identical parts in the same setup.  To use this option:

Step 1 - Right click on the operation and select "Copy":

Step 2 - Right click on the second workpiece and select "Paste Inside with Reference":

Step 3 - Notice the "Linked" status in the Path column and the original operation in red signifying it is the "Parent" of the copied operation: 

Step 4 - Make a change to the original operation and generate: 

Step 5 - Notice the change is reflected in all operations that were "Pasted Inside with Reference":

Chad Varney
Application Engineer
Ally PLM Solutions, Inc

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Hydraulic equipment maker increases design efficiency and accuracy

Pascal Systemtechnik designs better with Solid Edge. The company also reduced its design costs, improved accuracy and verification and produced highly precise 3D models for better visualization. Pascal manufactures hydraulic systems, including cylinders, special actuators, electrical/electronic control panels and control systems.

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Tip of the Week July 11, 2014

 Solid Edge and NX - Getting an Exact Line Width Display using Antialiasing

You may notice in some models and drafts the lines and dimensions appear slightly blurred. This is caused by Full Scene Antialiasing which “smoothes” the appearance of geometry displayed in the graphics window. It achieves this effect by slightly blurring geometry which can cause some lines to appear slightly thicker than others. To obtain the most exact display of line width, the user can disable the Full Scene Antialiasing option by either of the methods listed.

In NX -

1.  Turn OFF "Full Scene Antialiasing" on the Visual tab of Preferences > Visualization:  

OR;

 

2.  Turn ON "Disable Full Scene Antialiasing" on the General Graphics tab of Preferences > Visualization Performance:

In Solid Edge -

Turn ON "Disable Full Scene Antialiasing" on the General Graphics tab of Preferences > Visualization Performance:

   

Nathan Pfeiffer 

Application Engineer

Ally PLM Solutions, Inc

  

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Food processing machine manufacturer reduces design time 45 percent

Eskort Makina  designs better with Solid Edge. Using synchronous technology, new engineers can work on current models and not have to worry about the history of how the design was originally created. Design time was reduced 45 percent and manufacturing costs dropped 20 percent.

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Machine housing maker directly modifies sheet metal design, increases process efficiency

Hatakeyama designs better with Solid Edge. With Solid Edge’s synchronous technology, Hatakeyama  directly modifies geometry and dramatically increasing process efficiency. Other results include near elimination of costly rework and enhanced communication between design and manufacturing groups.

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