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Nailboards in Solid Edge:
A Hands-on Experience Steve Webb
SIEMENS PLM Software
Solid Edge Field Support
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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
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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.
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Nailboard
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Hands-on
Create a new drawing
New
More tab
ANSI nailboard draft.dft
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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
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Hands-on
Nailboard Options
Main Run – Largest diameter
Board
Name – My Board
Width – 96.000 in
Height – 48.000 in
OK
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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.
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Additional Information
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
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Hands-on
Place Nailboard flatten view
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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
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Hands-on
Insert Bends
Select the Insert Bend command
Enter a Radius of 4.000 in and a Sweep of 90 deg
Pick the long red cable
Esc to exit command
Drag red cable around to reposition for better fit
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Hands-on
Insert Bends
Select the Insert Bend command
Enter a Radius of 2.000 in and a Sweep of 45 deg
Insert bends so that your drawing will look like this
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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.
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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
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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.
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Properties
Right mouse click the edge of the nailboard.
Select Properties
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Insert Conductor Table
Select the Conductor Table command.
Pick the flatten view
Place the Conductor Table on the sheet.
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Finished
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Additional Information
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.
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Additional Information
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.
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Additional Information
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.
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Additional Information
Disjoint Harness
Disjoint harness is known as “islands”.
Each island is spaced vertically on the nailboard.
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