In this Snackbyte video, discover how some of the key features of Solid Edge Technical Publications can help you make better manufacturing documents.
In our latest Solid Edge Snackbyte video, PROLIM Application Engineer Ben Weisenberger, demonstrates some really simple commands you can use to make any kind of technical document stand out.
Are you making a publication of your own, straight from Solid Edge? Let’s take a look at some of the most important points Ben made, and see how you can apply them to your own document.
Solid Edge Technical Publications provides templates for you to use. In the video above, Ben uses the Printed Manual template, but you have a lot of different options available. Here are a few that you’ll find useful:
These templates are designed for manufacturing documentation, as well as 3D and interactive.
This software includes an assortment of images that are commonly needed for manufacturing documentation. You’ll have access to several different kinds of warning symbols, plus plenty of icons to indicate the types of necessary tools.
Select from a variety of industry-standard 3D orientations to demonstrate movement in your document. You can also select a part to highlight it from the rest of the assembly.
You’re probably used to implementing exploded views in Solid Edge, but now you can use them in Technical Publications, too!
Select each individual part of the exploded view and then move, rotate, or scale it for your purposes. Plus, with the storyboard wizard, you can quickly create an illustration based on the exploded view. In the video above, Ben demonstrates how each part of the assembly pulls apart from the whole to show how it was constructed.
This wizard will create an animation for each step, hiding and showing parts as necessary.
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