The company successfully competes with low-cost
manufacturers by designing its entire product using Solid Edge — generating
manufacturing drawings automatically and significantly reducing turnaround and
costs. In addition, Cmith enhanced marketing, with customers reviewing
realistic 3D views of plans.
Theebo Tech designs better with Solid
Edge. The agricultural equipment manufacturer uses Solid Edge SP to simplify and automate error-prone
processes, such as new product introductions, engineering changes and release
to manufacturing. Watch the video and read the story. http://ow.ly/EbzER 
Using synchronous technology in Solid Edge, Tread Corp.
reduced new product design 50 percent and revisions 75 percent. It also imported
and edited foreign CAD data 10 times faster than traditional history-based CAD.
NX Tip
of the Week
April
10, 2015
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NX -
Avoiding Collisions in Drilling Operations in NX CAM
When using the Drilling operation in NX CAM sometimes you may
have issues with the tool colliding with the workpiece when the tool traverses
from one hole to another if there is a feature between the two holes. If the
feature isn't especially tall you can simply adjust the "Minimum
Clearance" distance to a higher value. However, this adjusts where the
tool starts its drilling cycle to a higher value along with the rapid height
level causing excessive cycle times. Another way to do this would be to set a
value in "Rtrcto" in Cutting Parameters but this could also cause a
longer cycle time. A better way to avoid a collision in a Drilling operation is
to use "Avoid" when specifying holes. Below are the steps showing an
example of avoiding a tall area on a part in a Drilling operation.
1) Notice the path shown collides with the part.
Re-specify the holes and select Avoid:
2) Notice in the cue line
in the upper left-select a start point. This is the point before you want the
higher retract move. Notice the cursor location in the pic:
3) Pick the end point. This
is the point where the higher retracts will stop. Notice the cursor location in
the pic:
4) Select
"Distance" for the retract height:
5) Notice
"Rtrcto" in Cutting Parameters is set to None:
6) After regenerating
the operation the tool will rapid up to the distance specified between the 2
points you defined:
Chad Varney
Application Engineer
Ally PLM Solutions, Inc.
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The world’s oldest brewing equipment
manufacturer delivers sophisticated design and an aesthetic appearance for
microbreweries. Using Solid Edge’s synchronous technology, the 335-year-old
company delivers outstanding technological product improvements and
sped up the pipe routing process. It also eliminated potential production
problems during the design process versus downstream and completed significant
steps toward integration of the pipe bending machine and plasma sheet metal
cutter.
Solid
Edge Tip of the Week
April
3, 2015
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Solid
Edge - Deleting Complex Bends
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Moving
to a new modern design system, Indaer Industrial Aeronáutica leveraged synchronous
technology in Solid Edge to re-use all previous design data and engineering
changes and reduce the cost of manufacturing custom-made parts and tools. The
switch improved overall productivity 40 percent and eliminated the need for
physical prototypes.