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Drafting – Getting the Most Out of Draft

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Speaker Bio: Ricky Black

Background:

Product Manager - Solid Edge Draft from 2002

Nearing 30 years of experience in

manufacturing and mechanical CAD

Machinist and CNC programmer

Solid Edge Draft software development team

from the beginning of Solid Edge

Areas of Expertise:

Manufacturing - Drawing

Personal interests:

Boating/Fishing

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Executive Summary

Today’s Topics:

Drawing View Styles

Drawing View Captions

Annotation Improvements

Key Takeaways:

Understanding Drawing View caption workflow.

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General Question

What version of Solid Edge are you using now?

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Drawing Views – Captions

Drawing View Caption has a new

tab.

Caption is based on new

Drawing View Style.

More on Drawing View Style

later.

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Drawing Views – Captions

Use Property Text in Captions

Retrieve model name in caption

%{File Name (no extension)|G}

%{File Name (no extension)|GP}

%{File Name (no extension)|R1}

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Drawing Views – Captions

Drawing View – Property Text

%{Annotation Sheet Number|DV}

%{View Sheet Number|DV}

%{Primary Scale|DV}

%{Secondary Scale|DV}

%{View Angle|DV}

Removed options for formatting

User defined strings

Options were getting out of control.

Scale

%{Primary Scale|DV}:%{Secondary

Scale|DV}

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Drawing Views – Captions

Caption Building Helpers

Commonly displayed properties

Suffix – Section, Auxiliary, and

Detail View

Annotation Sheet Number

View Scale

Angle of Rotation

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Drawing Views – Captions

How to use caption

properties

Example – Section View

Suffix Format = “A-A”

Input String =

“%VA-%VA”

%VA = CP Name

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Drawing Views – Captions

Example – Section View

Suffix Format = “A-A”

Buttons are helpers.

They input the proper

syntax.

Click “View Annotation

name button”

Inputs “%VA” in Suffix

Key in “-”

Click “View Annotation

name button”

Inputs “%VA” in Suffix

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Drawing Views – Captions

Example – Section View

Scale Format = “1:1”

Click “Primary Scale

Property Text”

Inputs “%{Primary

Scale|DV}”

Key in “:”

Click “Secondary Scale

Property Text”

Inputs “%{Secondary

Scale|DV}”

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Drawing Views – Captions

Properties and Captions

Property Buttons

Insert 2-letter codes for

the properties at the

bottom

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Symbols and Values

Symbols and Values Button

Drawing View Captions

Dimension Prefix

Callout

Feature Control Frame

Text Box

Etc.

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Symbols and Values

Symbols and Values Dialog

Stop the button madness!!!

New Symbols for ASME

14.5-2009

Symbols grouped by type

Double click to add

Click + Select to add

Will be added to annotation.

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Symbols and Values

Symbols and Values Dialog

Values grouped by type

Double click to add

Click + Select to add

Will be added to annotation.

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Drawing Views – Captions

Property Buttons

Suffix %AS Button

Inserts “%AS” at cursor

%AS displays Derived

Suffix Property String

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Drawing Views – Captions

Property Buttons

View Scale %VS Button

Inserts “%VS” at cursor

%VS displays Derived

Scale Property String

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Drawing Views – Captions

Show (Evaluate) Check Boxes

Enable display in caption

%2-Letter code alone will

not display

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Drawing Views – Captions

Two Captions

Primary Caption

Secondary Caption

Both may be multi-line.

Either may be shown/hidden.

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Drawing Views – Captions

Two Captions

Primary Caption

Secondary Caption

Appearance controlled

separately

Font

Color

Etc.

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Drawing View Style

Drawing View specific properties

have been removed from

Dimension Style.

Dimension Style was

overloaded.

Drawing View Style has been

created.

Drawing View and DV

Annotation Style properties will

be here.

Drawing View Caption, Cutting

Plane Line, Auxiliary View Plane

Line, Detail Envelope

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Drawing View Style

Name Tab

Specify the Drawing View Style

name.

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Drawing View Style

Caption Tab

Set the Caption defaults

discussed earlier.

The Drawing View Properties

override these defaults.

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Drawing View Style

Caption Tab

Predefine each view type

separately.

Principal and Pictorial

2D Model

Section

Auxiliary

Detail

All predefined types are stored

in a single drawing view style.

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Drawing View Style

View Annotation Captions

Predefine each annotation type.

Cutting Plane

Auxiliary View Plane

Detail Envelope

All predefined types are stored

in a single drawing view style.

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Drawing View Style

Caption Format Tab

Primary caption and

Annotations

Secondary caption

Units – Reference to dimension

style

Caption Location

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Drawing View Style

Lines Tab

Options same as in previous

versions

Moved from Dimension Style to

Drawing View Style

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Solid Edge Options

Other options for captions

Solid Edge Options –

Annotation Tab

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Solid Edge Options

Automating Caption Display

Sheet Number

Drawing View Scale

Rotation Angle

These options automate the

Drawing View Caption check

boxes for Show (Evaluate).

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Solid Edge Options

Automating Caption Naming

Cutting Plane, View Plane,

Detail Envelope

Object Creation Sequence

Annotation type does not

matter.

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Solid Edge Options

Automating Caption Naming

Cutting Plane, View Plane,

Detail Envelope

Defined Object Sequence

Annotation type does matter.

Automatically sorts names as

annotations are added.

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Solid Edge Options

Specify Annotation Letters

User defined character

sequence for each annotation

type

Request – No O, I, Z, and S

Looks Like – 0, 1, 2, and 5

Multiple Character Lists

Used in the assignments

below

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Aspect Ratio and Wrap text

Set String Length in Objects

Callout

Text Box

Tables

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Aspect Ratio and Wrap text

Adjust aspect ratio to widthCallout UI

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Aspect Ratio and Wrap text

Wrap text to widthCallout UI

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Blank (NULL) Callouts

Where did my callout go?

There it is!!!

Blank callouts display

But they don’t print

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Formatted Callouts

Tolerance

Dual Units

Round off

Etc.

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Formatted Callouts

Example

%DI %{%HS/ST.01^-.02} - %{%HD/@3/ST.002^-.003} DEEP

Go to Solid Edge Help.

Click on the Search tab.

Key in “Format codes” and Enter.

Double click on the item in the list.

Gives examples of codes.

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Formatted Callouts

Predefine these in Dimension

Style – Hole Callout Tab

Remember that you can

predefine multiple styles if

needed.

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Centerlines – By 2 Lines

Update Drawing View

By 2 Line Centerline changed to

By 2 Point Centerline

By 2 Line Centerline lost

associativity to model

Could not reattach centerline

Much rework because of

dimensions

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Centerlines – By 2 Lines

Centerline Enhancements

See the lines that the centerline

is based on.

Use handles to ALT+Drag to

disconnect and reconnect.

Center Marks can be

disconnected and reconnected.

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Centerlines – By 2 Lines

Add centerline rebind failure to

Dimension tracker.

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Centerlines – By 2 Lines

Click on detached centerline.

Displays existing handles.

Drag both handles to reattach.

Center Marks can be reattached

too!!!

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Angular Dimensions to Center Marks

Center Mark lines are

treated as lines for angular

dimensions.

Locate the lines, not the

center of the center mark.

Locate the center to get the

old style dimension.

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Callout Dimension

Old Way

Dimension Prefix

Enter Text

Change Dimension

Type

Blank

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Callout Dimension

New Way

Set Dimension Type to

Hole Callout

Derives syntax from

Style Hole Callout Tab

Intelligent Dimension

Placement

Only Places Callout

when Needed

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Feature Control Frame

ASME 14.5 – 2009

New symbols in Symbols

and Values Dialog

Multi-Line Composite

All Over Symbol

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Feature Control Frame

Parallel and Perpendicular to

connection object

This includes dimension

projection lines.

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Text Box - Bullets

Bullets and Numbering

Single level only for ST4

Bullets

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Text Box - Numbers

Bullets and Numbering

Single level only for ST4

Numbers

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Text Box - Fractions

Fractions in text box

Superfix and Subfix text

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Text Box - Fractions

Key in fraction followed by

space bar.

Specify the type in the

combo boxes.

Fraction string converts to

type specified.

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Text Box – Stacked Text

Use Text – Stack to insert

fractions, superfix and subfix

text.

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Perspective Drawing Views

Use Custom Orientation Window

in the Drawing View Wizard to

define.

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Other Improvements to Look at (Your request may

be here.) Much More!!!

N – Sided Polygon

Closed B-Spline Curve

Rectangle by Center

New style ISO/DIN Edge Condition Symbol

Surface Finish Symbol Improvements

Retrieve Dimension and Annotation

Improvements

Dimension Enhancements – Jogs on

Projection Lines, etc.

Parts List Overhaul

Bend Table Improvements

Direction based on view direction.

Column definition in draft

Save as PDF Improvements

Multi-Sheet Printing Across Documents

Drawing View Scale for Measure

Commands

Do not Fit Hidden Layers

Drawing View Delete – Undo

Lock Drawing View Position

Sheet Scale Improvements

Mouse Wheel Scroll Improvements

Detail View Improvements

Section, Revolved Section, and Broken Out

Section Improvements

Broken View Improvements

Hidden/Tangent line display in Drawing

Views

Auto-balloon Fastener System (Stack

balloons)

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Conclusions

Much work has been done on drafting over the last few releases.

Many customer requests have been put into Draft.

We still have work to do.

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Drafting

DEMO!!!