Solid Edge South Africa
Cary Polachek
The solid edge is a engineering design software which helps to create drawings of parts and assemblies for the production. We can create design in 2d and can do analysis of the design to avoid errors during production. They have a great customer support if we hav any issues.
Comments:I can quickly provide customer solutions, with great quality 2D drawings, 3D models, Video fly-throughs, machine animations, stress and displacement analysis and reverse engineering. This software is critical to my business.
Solid Edge delivers great results quickly and design changes are very simple. The user interface is simple and clean and you do not need to sort through a hundred buttons to find the function you need. The software is great at importing and exporting other CAD formats. The drawing options are very good and quality drafts are produced in very little time. The software is more powerful and stable than some other brands and the support staff in Australia is fantastic.
The User is allowed to do geometry constraint while sketching. The measurement standard can be selected before creation of the sketch. Recording option is helpful to make a video of the workspace. 3D drawing is easily done. 3D model drafting into 2D sheets are done easily with all detailed views. Intelligence in selection of line is helpful when there is difficult in selection of line in sketch.
We need to purchase the software from a reseller. Customer support need to improve problem-solving skill. The software doesn't run smoothly in a low configured workstation. User interface need to be improved. The software should not proceed for next design steps if there is error in sketching.
Pyga Industries is one of the smaller bicycle companies in the industry, and focuses on the high-end bicycle market. The company was founded in 2011 by Patrick Morewood and Mark Hopkins, long-term friends, entrepreneurs and mountain biking enthusiasts. Morewood founded the first South African bicycle company, Morewood Bikes, in 1998, and the Morewood Makulu was rated the top bike of the year for two years in a row by Dirt Mountainbike magazine. Hopkins was previously affiliated with cSixx, a distributor of high-quality mountain bike components, and founder of Leatt, a manufacturer of braces, body armor and gear for extreme sports.
Offering bikes that are competitive on the racetrack while still being fun to ride, Pyga has grown over the years, with current sales of around 600 bicycles a year. The performance and quality of Pyga bicycles are rated in the top 10 percent in the industry, and they are designed to pedal efficiently, to be active and supple, and to integrate leading technologies that distinguish the ride of new-age bikes. The company has a global footprint with distributors in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany and recently the United States.
Pyga currently offers five full-suspension bicycles and two hardtail bicycles to consumers. The bikes feature short chainstays for a playful ride, and the high anti-squat properties of all Pyga frames provide a solid pedaling platform for improved performance on technical climbs, rough sections and downhills.
Offering traditional aluminum as well as advanced carbon composite frames and wheelsets, Pyga has made the transition to leading-edge materials to enhance speed, performance, handling, durability and rider confidence. All Pyga bicycles are designed in-house, with manufacturing and testing done by the factory in Taiwan. Initial prototype manufacture and testing is conducted in South Africa, with the local trails as ideal testing grounds.
Transitioning from traditional aluminum frames (using tubes and computer numerical control machined parts) to carbon composite frames has given Pyga more freedom in design. With the new materials, intricate designs that are structurally sound as well as aesthetically pleasing were possible. The new freedom required sophisticated design software.
The CAD software previously used at Pyga presented several challenges. Making design changes to imported CAD models was difficult and time-consuming. Because Pyga manufactures bikes in a variety of frame sizes, designers need to quickly scale a design from one frame size to four, which often required starting from scratch for each frame. Assembly design was cumbersome, because the CAD package did not automatically update part interfaces when design changes were made.
To overcome these inefficiencies and take advantage of new design possibilities, Pyga selected Solid Edge software for computer-aided design (CAD), from product lifecycle management (PLM) specialist Siemens Digital Industries Software.
The parametric design tools of Solid Edge are particularly useful for fast scaling of frame sizes, instead of creating new size models from scratch each time. Direct modeling powered by synchronous technology enables Pyga to quickly make changes to CAD models from any source, and the fast changes also help reduce prototyping time. With Solid Edge, designers can use assembly design sketches to define overall shapes and link part interfaces, enabling fast and easy design changes in a top-down approach.
A full-suspension bicycle design begins with the definition of the suspension kinematics, which determine the connection points between the different linkages of the suspension. Once these are determined, the 3D CAD design process begins. Using a top-down approach with Solid Edge, assembly sketches define the overall shape of the bicycle. Then the individual parts are modeled within the assembly and linked using interpart copies and constraints.
Hi there, I am extremely new to Rhino, and also with using surfacing.
I have managed to draw up this kayak, but I desperately need to convert it to a solid with a thickness of 6 mm.
the outside needs to stay exactly as it is, only the inside needs to change.
There are so many naked edges to be repaired (the pink edges). Fixing this model will be a time consuming. Start with fixing the centerline of the hull. Getting the main surface bodies tangency average matched and joined.
@davidcockey
please advise where to change the tolerance?
i created the model using Rhino, from scratch. probably started it about 4 weeks ago in between working.(30 minutes here and there)
then 3 weeks ago, i started putting more time in during weekend.
i only know how to use AutoCad 2D and Solid edge (solids) so learning surfacing was tough.
but this entire thing is my own work.
including the seat which took me the longest.
@jodyc111 seem to be getting a lot of criticism for my work,
the last 3 weekends i have put in a solid 16 hours,
I only know how to rebuild lines.
and this is the final point, that i couldnt get through.
my email address is candic...@icloud.com
a method i used for cylinder is i used a solid pipe and ran it through in some areas, then i split it from the original, and created a curve, which i swept through 2 rails.
and i am very good with 2D drawings, so i started everything with sketches
I am very rarely on here now, only when I am doing after hour freelance work with my personal licensed copy of Inventor Pro 2018, like now. My full time job is now managerial, running a drawing office of 5 draughtsman all using solid edge, which I am very slowly trying to learn.
With steel sections I have created a library over the years of the steel sections, drawn according to dimensions from the Southern African Steel Construction Handbook. This library has just been one metre long sections, ipt's, saved to my own library in my own specific location.
If you then go back to the content centre family that you created earlier you replace that families template with the file that you created earlier. All of that family should then use your South African standard.
I will continue for the time being doing, in my current project, what I have been doing, but will definitely look at content centre, and frame generator and how they work and try to use for future projects.
@MikeKovacik4928
Hi, Mike. It's not my job to try to sell anyone on one workflow over another, but since you asked how we liked to do things, I'll just tell you my experience from when I was designing frames all the time before I came to Autodesk.
In the first few years of my old job, our company used iFeatures like you are doing for all of the frames. It worked, but we found it to be harder to make changes because of the way everything was constrained. Not impossible... just more challenging. We left Inventor for a few years and tried ProE (WF4 &5) and used their frame design module. During that time, we got used to the robustness of the sketch-driven design style. When we moved back to Inventor (for many reasons), we tried Frame Generator and found that it was even better than the ProE equivalent for what we were designing. It did take a while to create some custom libraries for some of our sections, though most were readily available as standard ANSI sizes.
So,... bottom line, my opinion is that you would be happier in the long run by taking the time to use the tools in Frame Generator. But it's just an opinion. Good luck in whatever you do.
@MikeKovacik4928 I use a robust set of iLogic structural steel members I created, complete with copes, chamfers, etc, the beams and channels also have plate profile support. Frame Generator has some advantages, but it seems silly to create (2) assemblies and a part sketch to place a single piece of structural member. I think most people use the FG for the cope and finish aspects, I just find it easier to use user created structural member templates so I can have the assembly talk to the parts and control everything at the top level (just my 2 cents)
I have used the ContentCenter for over a decade. But first I made my own profiles, b/c the out-of-the-box Inventor profiles suck. They are mirrored halves of each section, which makes it impossible to modify them in any meaningful way. Plus, they have way too many Sketch constraints due to the mirroring. So, I not only simplified the profiles, but I also added a Gauge line where the bolts are supposed to go, as well as adding other info to suit my design venue.
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