#seu12 - 607 nail boards in solid edge a hands-on experience - steve webb

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Nailboards in Solid Edge:

A Hands-on Experience Steve Webb

SIEMENS PLM Software

Solid Edge Field Support

© Siemens AG 2012. All Rights Reserved.

Siemens PLM Software

Presenter background

Presenter background:

Steve is an Applications Engineer in the Solid Edge Field Support group. He has over 25 years of experience in Mechanical Design Engineering and Mechanical CAD. He has held roles as an Application Engineer and Educator at Siemens PLM Software, PTC, Saratech Inc and Moderntech SI. Before moving into the CAD Industry, Steve applied his CAD knowledge in industries including hydraulic gear pumps, high speed packaging equipment, and textile equipment. He holds a two year drafting certification from the Williamston Career and Technology Center.

Areas of Expertise:

Solid Edge Draft, UI and Competitive Analysis



Our Challenge

Design challenges to be solved

Take a 3D Wire Harness design and flatten the model to a 2D nailboard for manufacturing the layout.

How Solid Edge meets the challenge

Solid Edge ST5 introduces new functionally to create nailboards from the 3D wiring harness. Nail board creation allows flattening the harness, placing connectors, connector tables and conductor tables.



Nailboard



Hands-on

Create a new drawing

New

More tab

ANSI nailboard draft.dft



Hands-on

Select the assembly model with harness

Select the Diagram tab

Select the Nailboard icon

Look in the Nailboard folder and select

ForDemoAfterBundle-A.asm

Open



Hands-on

Nailboard Options

Main Run – Largest diameter

Board

Name – My Board

Width – 96.000 in

Height – 48.000 in

OK



Additional Information

Nailboard options

Main Run

Largest diameter - Creates the main run for the nailboard view based on the largest wire diameter in the wire harness.

Longest conductor - Creates the main run for the nailboard view based on the length of the longest conductor in the wire harness.

User selected – User selects the main run for the nailboard view.

Select conductor - User selects the conductor for the main run nailboard view.




Nailboard options

Board

Name - name of the nailboard view

Width - width of the nailboard

Height - height of the nailboard

Line Style - rectangular line style for the nailboard

Fill Style - fill style for the nailboard



Hands-on

Place Nailboard flatten view



Hands-on

Insert Bends

Select the Insert Bend command

Enter a Radius of 4.000 in and a Sweep of 90 deg

Pick the main run black bundle

Esc to exit command

Drag flatten wires onto Nailboard



Hands-on

Insert Bends



Pick the long red cable

Esc to exit command

Drag red cable around to reposition for better fit



Hands-on

Insert Bends



Insert bends so that your drawing will look like this



Hands-on

Insert Connectors

Select the Connector command

Pick the end of a wire.

Select Next to the Drawing View Wizard.

Select a Named View(Connector View) and Finish.

Change the scale to 2:1

Place the drawing view near the wires you selected.

Repeat the steps until all connectors are placed.



Hands-on

Insert Connector Table

Select the Connector Table command.

Pick any connector on the drawing.

Left Mouse Click beside the connector to place the table.

Repeat for all connectors



Hands-on

Add dimensions to the wires

Go into any of the dimension commands like Smart Dimension.

Select wires, cables or bundles to place dimension.

Add length dimension and radius dimension.

Add a callout for True Length.



Hands-on

Properties

Right mouse click the edge of the nailboard.

Select Properties



Hands-on

Insert Conductor Table

Select the Conductor Table command.

Pick the flatten view

Place the Conductor Table on the sheet.



Finished




Impact on existing Solid Edge seats

These commands will be available for all licenses of Solid Edge except Free 2D and 2D Drafting.

These commands will not work with legacy wiring files created in XpresRoute.




Drawing Views

Drawing views can be made from connectors only.

View commands like Principal, Auxiliary, Detail, Cutting Plane work with connectors.

Flattened geometry is not supported with drawing views.




Solid Edge Options

New option in the Edge Display setting “Do not show hidden lines in Connector View”.

Option to control the color of printing white conductors.




Disjoint Harness

Disjoint harness is known as “islands”.

Each island is spaced vertically on the nailboard.

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#seu12 - 607 nail boards in solid edge a hands-on experience - steve webb

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