Solid Edge Version 14

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Solid Edge Version 14

• Mark ThompsonDoug Stainbrook
• Solid Edge Technical Marketing

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Solid Edge V14
Draft
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Heres whats new!

• Usability Enhancements
• Drawing View Property Enhancements
• Query Select
• Display Reference Parts
• Enhanced Rotated Views
• Broken-out Section Views
• Translate View Port Layers
• Broken View Makeover

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Usability Enhancements

• What are the Enhancements?
• Fit to drawing view command on the Drawing View
  short cut menu The fit will include dimensions
  placed on the drawing view.
• Double Click annotations to open the properties
  dialog
• Callout, Surface Texture, Weld Symbol and Feature
  Control Frame.

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Usability Enhancements

• More Enhancements?
• Print current display This is more consistent
  with part and assembly.
• Constrain Detail View envelope to geometry in the
  drawing view When the model changes, the
  constrained Detail View envelope will move with
  the drawing view geometry.
• Added new JIS standard thread display.

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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• What are the changes?

V12
V14
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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• A closer look
• New bitmaps in the Tree View make the list more
  intuitive
• The UI has been made more intuitive by splitting
  up the Show, Hide, and Section radio group
• Enhance user feedback by giving status on parts
  in drawing view properties

V12
V14
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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• More Enhancements?
• Enhance section views by allowing the fill style
  to be set on parts individually in assembly
  section views

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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• More Enhancements?
• V12 offered no independent control of Revolved
  Section views segments. This made it difficult
  if not impossible to control what was displayed
  in the section view

V12 No Control
Revolved Section
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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• V14 has Enhanced the Revolved Section views by
  giving independent display control to each
  segment of the revolved section view through the
  property dialog

V14 Full Control
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Drawing View Property Enhancements

• Key Benefits
• Unmatched control of drawing view display

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Query Select

• What is it?
• The Draft Query tool will provide a way for a
  user to select files based on property
  information. Once the files are selected, the
  user can then use existing functionality to apply
  display settings and styles to the selected files
  in a draft view
• How does it work?
• A user can create a new query from the Queries
  tab on Edgebar or through the Properties
  dialog under the Display tab

New Query
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Query Select continued

• Once the New Query is selected, the following
  dialog will appear
• Fill out the Query Criteria
• Select the OK buttonto create the query

Property Criteria
Match All/Match Any of the following criteria
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Query Select continued

• The following shows the Display options from the
  Properties dialog

Execute Query
Edit Query
New Query
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Query Select continued

• FYI
• A user can only run the Execute Query from the
  properties dialog which differs slightly from the
  Assembly environment Query tool
• The only query option that can be done from
  Edgebar is to create a new query
• Once they are created a user can rightclick and
  get to the other options shown

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Query Select continued

• Key Benefits
• Gives the capability to use part properties to
  define classes of parts and easily control their
  display in drawing views.
• Gives the capability to use drawing view
  properties to query parts in the drawing view to
  make display changes.
• For example Query for all parts with a custom
  property that defines them to be hardware (bolts,
  washers). Turning off the hardware improves
  drawing view create and update performance.

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Display Reference Parts

• What is it?
• A user will have the ability to identify parts or
  sub-assemblies as being reference geometry in
  respect to the overall assembly and display this
  geometry differently on drawings.
• How does it work?
• Parts can be identified as reference geometry
  during or after view placement through the View
  Properties dialog.
• Select the view that you want to set geometry as
  reference, right click and select Properties

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Display Reference Parts continued

• When the dialog appears, the user can select the
  parts or sub-assemblies that need to be reference
  geometry.

Notice the icon changes when a part is marked as
reference geometry
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Display Reference Parts continued

• After view placement, notice the reference
  geometry placed around the plate
• A user can change the reference geometry at any
  time by right clicking on the view and selecting
  the Properties option

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Display Reference Parts continued

• A user has an option to turn off sectioning for
  reference geometry through the properties dialog.
  Uncheck the box on highlighted parts that you do
  not want to section

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Display Reference Parts continued

• Changes have been made to the Tools-gtOptions-gtEdge
  Display dialog. Three combo boxes have been
  added to the dialog. These combo boxes define the
  default Visible, Tangent, and Hidden line styles
  to use for reference parts.

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Display Reference Parts continued

• A few rules to understand
• By default no parts are reference.
• Derived and folded views take on the same
  reference part display as the original view.
• If an assembly or a sub-assembly is selected in
  the assembly tree, checking the Reference
  option will make all parts in the assembly or
  sub-assembly reference.
• All display options work on reference parts just
  like they do on real parts.
• Reference parts will be sectioned just like real
  parts.

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Display Reference Parts continued

• A few more rules
• Un-checking the visible property can hide
  reference parts. The Visible property refers to
  the property that will show/hide parts in V14
  with the Display Properties Changes.
• Reference Parts will hide other reference parts.
• Reference parts will not hide real parts.
• Real parts will hide reference parts.

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Display Reference Parts continued

• Key Benefits
• Enhance drawing view display by providing real
  reference part calculation. Reference parts are
  not just an overlay of the parts marked as
  reference.
• Reference parts will appear to be transparent
  with respect to non-reference parts.
• Non-reference parts will show through reference
  parts and non-reference parts will hide reference
  parts behind them.
• Full control of display is given to reference
  parts.
• Reference parts can use line styles defined
  specifically for the display of reference parts.
  The user can modify these line styles to suit
  their display needs.
• Not dependent on a changes to the assembly to
  make parts reference in drawings.

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Example V14Draft.dft
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Enhanced Rotated Views

• What is it?
• Rotated views have been enhanced such that a
  rotated view will behave more like a non-rotated
  view.
• What are the Enhancements?
• The rotation angle for a drawing view can now be
  specified in the drawing view properties dialog
  or by using the rotate command.

Properties Dialog General tab
Rotate command
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Enhanced Rotated Views continued

• More Enhancements
• Drawing views can be folded from rotated drawing
  views
• Broken views can be created from rotated drawing
  views

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Enhanced Rotated Views continued

• More Enhancements
• Section views and auxiliary views can now be
  derived from a rotated drawing view.
• Rotated Drawing Views can be used as input for
  the Cutting Plane and Auxiliary View commands
• Rotating the parent view will not rotate the
  geometry displayed in the detail view

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Enhanced Rotated Views continued

• More Enhancements
• In this example Section A-A was rotated 45 deg
  and then Section B-B was created from the
  rotated Section A-A view
• Dimensions can be retrieved on rotated drawing
  views

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Enhanced Rotated Views continued

• Key Benefits
• Enhancements made to the Rotate View command has
  greatly increased the usability of the command as
  well as make the Draft environment more
  competitive.

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Broken-out Section Views

• What is it?
• A Broken Out Section View is a drawing view that
  has a portion of the model cut away to expose
  internal features of the model. A closed profile
  is drawn on an existing view to define the area
  of the view to be cut away. When the cut is
  applied to the view, the model is cut down to a
  specified depth to reveal internal components of
  the model.

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• How does it work?
• Select the Broken Out Section view command from
  the Drawing View tool bar. Then select the view
  in which you want to create the cutout profile.
• This will take you into the Broken Out Profile
  environment. The user will draw the geometry that
  defines the closed profile in this environment.

Broken Out Section
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Broken-out Section Views continued

• Next the user will either key in the depth for
  the cut or select geometry in the drawing views
  that defines the depth for the cutout.
• The user can either select the Finish button to
  apply the cutout to the same view the profile was
  drawn on or select another view to apply the
  cutout.

Dynamic selection for depth
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Broken-out Section Views continued

• The user can either select the Finish button to
  apply the cutout to the same view the profile was
  drawn on or select another view to apply the
  cutout.

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• If the user needs to make a change to the profile
  or depth, they can select the profile from the
  view and the Smart Step ribbon bar will appear.
• From this menu a user can suppress the cutout,
  edit the profile, or change the depth of the
  cutout.

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• The following are examples of profiles that
  define a Broken Out View

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• The following are rules that apply to profiles
• The profile can contain 2D geometry and
  dimensions and must define one closed area.
• Geometry is drawn on a view to define the area to
  be broken away. This geometry is selected and
  used when the cutout is applied to define the
  closed profile.
• If the cutout on the view is edited, the profile
  will be displayed again during the edit.
• The range of the closed profile must intersect
  the range of a view to be valid. This is the
  source view and defines the direction of the
  cutout.

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• More rules that apply to profiles
• Multiple closed profiles can be used to produce
  multiple cuts. The multiple profiles can overlap.
• The cut from a Broken Out Profile can be
  suppressed without having to delete the Broken
  Out Profile.

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• A user can display Broken Out View profiles by
  selecting the option in the Drawing View
  Properties dialog

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Broken-out Section Views continued

• Key Benefits
• Eliminates a competitive disadvantage.
• Create a competitive advantage with the ability
  to select a view other than the view the profile
  is drawn on to apply the cutout.

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Translate View Port Layers

• What is it?
• Solid Edge now provides the ability to
  independently control layers per drawing view.
  Until now this has been a problem when
  translating files into Solid Edge. In particular
  are the ACAD files with view ports where geometry
  is overlapped by geometry from all view ports.
• How does it work?
• A user can control layers per drawing view
  through Edgebar with the Show/Hide option

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Translate View Port Layers continued

• Identify the Drawing View in which you want to
  turn off specific layers
• Expand the Drawing view by selecting the
  sign, then use the Show/Hide option on each layer

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Translate View Port Layers continued

• In the following Drawing view, you will notice
  there several geometries overlapping each other.
• Show/Hide options allow the user can clean up the
  view

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Translate View Port Layers continued

• Key benefits
• Enhances translation of Mechanical Desktop files.
• Resolves the ACAD view port layer issues.
• Enhances translation of IDEAS and UG Drawing
  files through DXF.
• Resolves cases where geometry would not translate
  into Solid Edge Draft.

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Broken View Makeover

• What is it?
• There have been some major enhancements to the
  Broken View command
• What has changed?
• When a user right clicks on a drawing view the
  command name on the pulldown menu has changed
  from Add broken View regions to Add Break
  Lines.
• A user will now define what to break away when
  creating a broken view, not what to keep.

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Broken View Makeover

• A user will now define what to break away when
  creating a broken view, not what to keep.

Only 2 lines required instead of 4
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Broken View Makeover continued

• A view can now be broken in both directions.

Horizontal
Vertical
All Break lines must be placed in the
un-broken state. If a user places more than one
break, they must be placedat the same time.
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Broken View Makeover continued

• Added break line types Straight Break,
  Cylindrical (S-Curve) Break , Short Break, and
  Long Break
• Each Break style providesHeight Pitch options
• A user can fold broken views from broken views

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Broken View Makeover continued

• How to edit a Broken View
• Select the Broken View, then click on the Show
  Broken View button on the ribbon bar.
• This will take you to the unbroken state
• Select one of the Break Lines to activate the
  toolbar for that broken view so edits can be made
• To add another broken View, right click on the
  view and re-select the Add Break Lines command
• Multiple Broken Views can only be added in the
  un-broken view state
• After edits are made, select the source view,
  then select the Show Broken View button
  on the ribbon bar.

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Broken View Makeover continued

• Key Benefits
• The new options for Broken Views provides a more
  robust command allowing the user to accomplish
  their tasks easier and with more options that
  satisfy Broken View requirements

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Example V14Draft.dft
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Theres More!

• 3D Dimensions on ISO Views
• Bolt Hole Circle and Radial Center Mark
  Annotations
• Angular Coordinate Dimensions
• Angular Dimensions gt 180
• Variable Dimensions
• Zero and Negative Dimension Values

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3D Dimensions on ISO Views

• What is it?
• Dimensions can now be created on pictorial
  (Isometric) drawing views and the dimensions will
  show the true model values
• How does it work?
• Select the Smart Dimension tooland begin placing
  dimensions inthe ISO view

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3D Dimensions on ISO Views continued

• By selecting an edge to place a dimension,
  depending on the part a user may have several
  placement options
• In the case below, by selecting the back edge,
  the dimension can be placed on the back or top
  plane
• To switch between the 2 planes, a user can press
  the N or B key

Top plane dimension
Back plane dimension
Selected edge
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3D Dimensions on ISO Views continued

• There is an option in the View properties dialog
  where 3D dimensions can be turned on or off. By
  default this is turned on for all pictorial views
  and off for orthogonal views
• The option is available forthose users who
  rotate anorthogonal view beforeplacement.
  Since it is anorthogonal view, this optionby
  default would be off.

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3D Dimensions on ISO Views continued

• Another option available for the user is to add
  extension lines to an ISO dimension
• By holding the Shift key downa user can select
  a dimensionin which extension lines will
  automatically be added as the cursor is moved
• FYI - Retrieve dimensions will not work on
  pictorial views and cannot be used to create true
  dimensions

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3D Dimensions on ISO Views continued

• Key Benefits
• Eliminate a competitive disadvantage
• Resolve a top 5 customer request
• Considerably enhances dimensioning capabilities

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Bolt Hole Circle and Radial Center Marks

• What is it?
• We now have 2 new annotation capabilities. They
  are Bolt Hole Circles with Center Marks and
  Radial Center Marks by 2 Points
• How do they work?
• First, lets look at the Radial Center Marks.
  This is not a new command, but it is extended
  capabilities within the Center mark command.

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• By selecting the Center Mark command the
  user will notice a new option has been added to
  the ribbon bar pull down called By 2 points
• After selecting this option, the user can now
  place true radial center marks by first
  identifying the center pt. of the center mark
• Second, identify the center mark location

By 2 Points
Horizontal/Vertical
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Bolt Hole Circle and Center Marks continued

• Another example of the Radial Center mark
• Notice the change to the radius of the center
  mark as it moves closer to the center

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• Bolt Hole Circle with center marks
• This new annotation command can be found on the
  Center Line pull out menu
• Once the command is activated, the following
  ribbon bar activates

Dim Style
Line Type
By 3 Points
By Center and Radius
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Bolt Hole Circle and Center Marks continued

• The next step is to identify and click the
  center of the bolt circle
• Then identify the radius point of the bolt hole
  circle

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• Bolt Hole Circle Options
• Once the bolt circle annotation has been created
  a user can easily make changes by identifying the
  bolt circle element to activate the ribbon bar
• Notice that the Add/Remove Center Mark is now
  active
• With this option a user can remove or add holes
  to the annotation as long as they reside on the
  bolt circle diameter

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• Bolt Hole Circle Options
• Just identify the hole element to add or remove
• Holes can also be added by right clicking on the
  bolt circle element and using the shortcut menu
• This particular option can be used if the bolt
  pattern in part is increased. This command
  automatically adds all circleswithin the
  diameter

Select element to remove
After removal
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Bolt Hole Circle and Center Marks continued

• Bolt Hole Circle Options
• If a user decides to change the pattern in the
  part environment, dimension tracker will pick up
  those changes automatically and report the
  differences

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• Key Benefits
• Enhanced drawing creation time, the bolt hole
  circle command automates the creation of bolt
  hole circles and radial center marks.
• The creation of the radial center marks includes
  the orientation. This greatly reduces the number
  of steps to place the center marks.

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Angular Coordinate Dimensions

• What is it?
• V14 offers a new command to create Angular
  Coordinate Dimension
• How does it work?
• Select the Angular Coordinate Dimension
  command found under the Distance between pull
  out menu bar

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• Select the Group center element which represents
  the origin center point of the angle
• Then select the common origin element (zero
  degrees) as shown below
• Once zero is set, a user can select center points
  around the bolt circle

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• Another option available is to change the
  direction of the dimensions using the
  counterclockwise command
• All other options such as adding jogs works
  exactly as it does in the Coordinate Dimension
  command

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Angular Coordinate Dimensions continued

• Key Benefits
• Extends the dimension capability by creating
  standard angular coordinate dimensions.
• Competitive advantage. Solid Works and Inventor
  cannot create Angular coordinate dimensions.

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Angular Dimensions gt 180

• What is it?
• The angular dimension object has been enhanced
  to allow values gt 180
• How does it work?
• The current Complement angle option has
  been modified such that when selected only two
  placement choices will be available.
• Holding the Ctrl key will also toggle this
  option on

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• Placement when this Compliment option is not
  selected will be the same as in V12 (4 quadrant
  choices)
• This functionality is also supported by stacked
  angular dimensions
• When placing Stacked dimensions there are only
  two sides that the dimension can be placed
  on.

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• This functionality will be supported by Chained
  Angular dimensions
• Where the user clicks determines which side we
  connect to in the chain

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Angular Dimensions gt 180 continued

• V14 also provides us with more stable output when
  changing driving dimensions. An example of this
  is shown below

V12 output
V14 output
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• Key Benefits
• Allow correct placement and display of angular
  dimensions gt 180 deg.
• Enhanced Stack and Chain behavior
• Enhancements to make the object behave better on
  create and edit.

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Variable Dimensions

• What are they?
• V14 provides a dimension UI that allows the user
  to edit and create formulas for driving
  dimensions without entering the variable table
  UI. This UI is basically a graphically interface
  to variable table.
• This functionality will be available wherever we
  edit the value of a dimension (Profile, Draft,
  Part, Assembly).
• How does it work?
• The user will enter formula edit mode by double
  clicking on the dimension or by running formula
  edit from the object shortcut menu. This will
  show the formula edit ribbon.

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• The formula edit mode will bring up a new ribbon
  bar which provides the name of the variable name,
  formula field, and the edit formula fly out
• Copy/Paste Link for Files in Assy
• A user can also display the variable name,
  value, or formula with a RMB click and
  selectingthe desired option

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• By double clicking on a dimension, the ribbon bar
  becomes active for that dimension.
• The user can rename the variable by keying in a
  new name and then selecting an Enter or Tab key
• A user can also enter a formula by keying it in,
  using the formula wizard, or by selecting other
  variables and mixing them with keyins as shown
  below

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• Variable dimensions also allow the user to
  measure elements and use the value for input as
  well as turn other dimensions on from other
  features in the same file
• Key Points are only available in the 2D
  environments

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• Key Benefits
• Enhance Variable table features by putting a UI
  on dimensions to create formulas.
• Enhance profile and sketch creation by allowing
  variables to be placed directly on the dimensions
  in the profiles.
• Enhance profile and sketch creation by allowing
  the dimension value, variable name or the formula
  to be displayed on the dimension.

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Zero and Negative Dimension Values

• What is it?
• Support zero and negative values in dimensions.
  This functionality allows the user to enter
  negative and zero values for supported dimension
  types. (Angular and Linear dimensions)
• How does it work?
• The system will not allow a user to place a zero
  or negative dimension, but the above type
  dimensions can be modified once they are placed
  to a zero or negative value

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• Examples
• Below you can see where the user changed positive
  values to negative values

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• Key Benefits
• Better control of feature profiles and sketches.
• Feature profiles and sketches do not need to be
  moved to change its location to the opposite side
  of a reference and then dimensioned again.
• Useful in formulas that drive dimensions in
  reference to a datum

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Example V14Draft.dft
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Solid Edge V14
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