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SOLID EDGE UNIVERSITY 2014

Re-imagine What‟s Possible #SEU14

Solid Edge University 2014

May 12-14, Atlanta, GA, USA

3D Sketching in Solid Edge ST7

Rahul Kulkarni, Manager, Solid Edge Product Design, Pune Center

2014-05-13


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About: Rahul Kulkarni

Rahul Kulkarni

Manager, Solid Edge Product Design, Pune Center

Siemens PLM Software

Rahul has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

from VJTI, Mumbai University. Prior to his role in the

Solid Edge Product Design organization, he was in Solid

Edge Product Development and before that a Technical

Services and Planning Engineer at Tata Motors car

plant. Rahul has a combined work experience of 15 years

in manufacturing and CAD software industry.

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Agenda

• Need for 3D Sketching

• New 3D Sketching Tab on Ribbon

• 3D Sketching commands

• 3D Sketching Triad

• 3D Sketching Relationships

• Project Keypoint Option

• Locking Axis or Plane

• Pathfinder Display

• 3D Sketch Edit

• Dimensioning in 3D Sketch

• 3D Sketch Usage

• Demonstration

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Need for 3D Sketching

• 3D sketching is the quickest and easiest way to create parts which use a 3D

sweep path or a 3D guide curve where the path lies in multiple planes.

ST6 ST7

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New 3D Sketching Tab on Ribbon

• A new tab has been added to the Synchronous Part and

Sheet Metal to support 3D Sketching.

• A new 3D Sketch command has been added to Ordered Part,

Sheet Metal, and Assembly that puts you in a new

3D Sketch mode.

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3D Sketching Commands

• The 3D Sketch elements that can be created are:

• Lines

• Tangent Arcs

• Arcs by 3 points

• Circles by center point

• Rectangles by center point

• Fillets

• 3D Sketch elements can be trimmed using the Trim Command that is specific

for 3D Sketch elements.

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3D Sketching Triad

• When creating 3D sketch elements, the alignment lines are displayed for all 3

axes and are color coordinated to match the coordinate system axes.

• Can be toggled on and off from the 3D Sketch command ribbon

• Aids you in creating 3D Sketch lines along a specific

axis of the selected coordinate system.

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3D Sketching

• The command bar for the 3D Sketch line is similar to the 2D line command.

• The „Relative to‟ option is used to select a Coordinate System that will be

used to align 3D Sketch elements to.

• The Coordinate System in use is highlighted.

• The OrientXpres Tool is similar to the one used in Keypoint curve.

Base

CoordinateSystem_2

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3D Sketching Intellisketch

• 3D Sketch elements can be locked to planes or faces, locked to keypoints,

locked to axes, or randomly drawn in 3D space.

• 3D Intellisketch is used to control what keypoints can be located when

creating 3D Sketch elements.

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3D Sketching: Locking Axis

• Pressing the “Z” key forces a 3D Sketch Line to lock to a specified axis of the

active coordinate system.

• Pressing “Z” toggles between the 3 Axes

• An indicator near the cursor informs you which axis is locked.

• The OrientXpres triad will display only the locked axis.

• Only the alignment line associated with the locked axis is displayed.

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3D Sketching: Locking Plane

• Pressing the “X” key forces a 3D Sketch Line, Rectangle, Circle or Arc to lock

to a specific plane of the active coordinate system.

• Pressing “X” toggles between the 3 Planes.

• An indicator near the cursor informs you which plane is locked.

• The OrientXpres triad will display only the locked Plane and Axes.

• Only the alignment lines associated with the locked axis are displayed.

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3D Sketching Relationships

• 3D Sketches can be related to other geometry or to other

3D Sketch elements using the 3D Sketch relationships.

• Similar to 2D Sketch relationships

• You are given the option whether to display relationship handles on the

sketch geometry just like 2D sketches.

• The On Plane relationship is unique to 3D Sketches where you can force 3D

Sketch elements to be coplanar with a planar face or reference plane.

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3D Sketching Project Keypoint Option

• In 3D Sketch commands, you can select a keypoint at its place or project it on

a sketch plane, using the Project Keypoint option.

When Project Keypoint is OFF,

the keypoint is located at its position.

As the keypoint is in a different plane

than the sketch plane, a 3D box is

shown as an indicator.

When Project Keypoint is ON, the keypoint is

projected on the sketch plane. As the

keypoint is on sketching plane, a 2D box is

shown as an indicator.

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3D Sketching: 3D Include Command

• The 3D Include command can be used to copy 2D sketch elements,

3D sketch elements, and part edges into the active 3D sketch.

• The included elements are associative to the parent elements

and maintain their 3D position.

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3D Sketching: Pathfinder Display

• The 3D sketch element style can be derived from Face Styles

or set in the element‟s command bar.

• 3D Sketches appear in their own collectors in the

PathFinder within the Synchronous Part, Sheet Metal

and in the Assembly.

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3D Sketching: Pathfinder Display

• In Synchronous, all 3D Sketch elements are added to the active 3D Sketch.

• If a new sketch is required the

„New 3D Sketch„ command will create a

new 3D Sketch and make it active.

• A 3D Sketch can be made active by using the

„Activate‟ command in context menu.

• In Ordered, creating and editing the 3D Sketch

is similar to 2D Sketch.

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3D Sketching: Edit

• Editing of 3D Sketch elements is similar to 2D Sketch elements.

• On selecting, elements can be edited by

• Using the Modify command bar(single element)

• Dragging the edit handles(single element)

• Using the Move command by using the

steering wheel (single or multiple elements)

• Relationships applied to the elements are

honored during editing.

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3D Sketching: Dimensioning

• Existing Dimensioning commands will also dimension 3D Sketch elements.

• Smart Dimension

• True dimension is placed for a 3D Line by default.

• Projected dimensions can be placed similar to 2D sketches.

• Radius and Diameter can be placed for a 3D Arc or a 3D Circle.

• Distance Between

• True dimension is

placed on distance

between line by default.

• Projected dimensions can

also be placed similar to

2D sketches.

• Angle Between

• Angle dimension can be placed if the

two lines are coplanar.

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3D Sketching: Usage

• Almost all commands that require a Sketch/Profile can use 3D Sketches.

• Following are some of the examples.

• Part - Extrude, Sweep, Extruded Surface, BlueSurf, Bounded etc.

• Sheet metal – Tab, Contour Flange, Dimple etc.

• Assembly - Assembly relationship commands, Drag and

Move components, Assembly feature commands etc.

• Routing – Tube, Piping Route, Frame etc.

Sweep command using 3D Sketch as path

BlueSurf command using

3D Sketch as guide curves.

Contour Flange

command

using 3D Sketch

as profile.

Piping route using

3D Sketch.

Assembly relationships-

Axial Align using 3D Sketch.

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Demonstration

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3D Sketching: Summary

• Available in the Part, Assembly and Sheet

Metal environments

• Can be used in many modeling scenarios:

• Define paths for sweep operations

• Create models for pipes/wires that are

bent in more than one plane

• Define paths for piping, wiring, tube

routing and frames

• Define cross section or guide curves for

surfacing

• Use for placing components in

assemblies

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Contact

Rahul Kulkarni

Manager,

Solid Edge Product Design, Pune

Center

Siemens PLM Software

15A, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park,

Hinjwadi, Pune, India. 411057

Phone: +91 (20) 3918-3362

Fax: +91 (20) 3918-2001

Mobile: +91 98225 56725

E-mail:

[email protected]

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