Create Design Table in Solid Edge ST6

This video demonstrates, how to drive solid edge model or in other words how to create the design table in solid edge. Open the part module, sketch and constrain. Let's take an example of housing, which has flange OD=100mm, ID=40mm, thickness= 10mm. Save the model as housing as the name of the model. Now open a new excel sheet and save it as housing. This sheet is used to control dimension of the model. Click on tools command, select variables. In this window, you can see the dimension variables respective to housing sketch, now select all and copy all the variables. Open excel sheet & paste all the variables. Now copy dimension value from the excel sheet and paste in the formula column of the variable table. Repeat same procedure for all the dimension which are to be controlled.This process creates a link between the sketch dimensions to the excel sheet. This helps designers to make quick changes in the parts & fastens the development process. To test you can switch to excel sheet and change the dimension value from 20 to 10 then save it. If you switch back to solid edge you can see dimension has been updated. Open excel again and change dimension from 20 to 25 & save. You can see that the dimensions have been updated in solid edge.Exit sketch & select revolve command to convert sketch into 3D. The model can be controlled via the excel sheet Not only for 2D sketch but for 3D too. Open the excel sheet, change dimension from 25 to 20 & then save, switch to solid edge. The dimension gets updated instantaneously. Change flange dimension from 50 to 40 & save, if you go back to solid edge you can see that the flange dimension has changed to 40. Now save the solid edge model and the excel sheet & then close the files. Thus we can see that Controlling the models through solid edge using excel sheet can be very easy, quick and efficient. For more info please visit http://www.panso.in or write a mail to [email protected]