I just met with one of my new solids vendors, SE.

The meeting lasted for 2 hours,

in that time frame we worked out a dead nutz easy way
for me to stick steel to a base plate and my own drawn or imported
and sarts and tick em
to the top side of skid... all moveable at will...

and put each component and assy in libraries off of the C drive.. that
show up in the SE libraries file, I just select C drive.
and find one of the folders I made

C: pipe fittings
C: steel

etc
and all saved as templates only

so the part say a fixed 2" size elbow is imported to part mode.and
edited to say 4" and presto I have a 4" elbow. ..thats saved-as only,
to 4" pipe elbow, goes to the desk top or whatever... then I need a
skid I go
to 'sycnhrounous assembly drawing mode' drag the parts in, do the
assembly and Im done.



also I can copy parts from other libraries, say from inventor, into
these files using the cad conversion gismo..and presto I gotts plenty
of parts.

I drilled much of that, I will drill the rest tonite... then practice
running sychronous pipe. the guy didnt think it would stretch etc as
I moved the main parts etc...but as I recall some of the demo's on
youtube a built in place assembly will do that... we will see.

I


Phil scott




Phil scott

 

Sounds like you are losing most of the advantages in the
piping add-on program & libraries .... by not using it & them.

 

yes, that is entirely correct in synch at this point.. SE
acknowledges that, and says its being worked on. My guess,
due to the complex web nature of many piping jobs we will not see much
in the way of a viable fix for that...and that will
limit the sycnh aspects of SE's and Acad inventors offerings for the
duration.

for what I do personally though, I can easily live with it.... will we
see a synch petrochemical plant design in the future?

I dont thinnnnk soooo.


If i need much complex piping I will have to do it in SE plain
vanilla, and thats not so bad looking..... but still a long way from
what Inventor has to offer. Learning Inventor though, for me, and my
time frames and my distain for bugs and complexity etc was not
going to happen... but it is a world class capable program and their
pipe routing is world class in what it can do.


for me the advantage in synch for what I do... is the ability to
quickly move and stretch, add to, and modify *parts in place on a
skid.
so I can develop a library of large assemblies then for new proposals,
drag one up, make some fast edits and email it to the client for
initial comments
and edits etc.

the other advantage is that it is about 400% easier to learn than
Inventor... that was killing me.. . SE has not been so easy either,
it has
bugged tutorials in spots and its own issues, but is still a lot
cleaner than IV..and at this point looks like it will work...and for
me, a cad idiot,
thats huge.


yesterday the SE guy said to me... 'I can show you how to do this in
SE plain vanilla also, and easily'.... I told him that would involve a
history tree and a spread sheet and that I am not up to that just
now... and said that probably later, if I live that long, Id get into
that aspect...

I had gotten that far in IV, I know how it works, and .... all the
snitty little problems that it has in its own aspects.


for now, Im grateful for the ability to model directly... and for some
of SE's very tricky little features such as th 'hole' function.. now
thats slick,..light years advanced from say IV's grossly pedantic, and
laborious and entirely limited hole function.

If you get a chance in Se sycnch...draw a hollow donut...them make
holes around the perimeter.. thats a laugh out loud experience.





Phil scott