A Bit fun - Annoying Features of SE (any version) 1

[karmoh]

I was having a ponder the other day about the most annoying things in Solid Edge and possibly the most aggravating would be having the HELP button where the Cancel button should be on the Profile Error Assistant.
This one gets me every time...........

 

[ryandias]

I noticed with version 20 & with ST that my background watermark "confidential for review" appears in front of my drawing views after adding a few dimensions. I ended up having to zoom full then zoom back to my original view until i noticed the "refresh" button just the other day!

 

[beachcomber]

Why do we still have different file types for part and sheet metal? The times I've started a part and then wanted to do it in sheet metal....grrrrr
Or has this changed with ST2?

bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.

 

[donyoung]

BC,

hmm, there is a trick to achive this, it might also come in handy
when importing a foreign assembly that holds a mix of sheet metal
and part files. This one might come in handy:

- Open your Sheetmetal template and from the Applications menu choose
"switch to part"
- Save this template then rename the extension from .psm to .par

As you can cannot specify the 'part' template to use when importing
Assemblies Edge always uses normal.par, however with this modified template
when you come to edit a component you can choose on opening to keep it as a
part, or use "switch to Sheetmetal" followed by a "convert to sheetmetal"
and you are away... Although the extension will still be .par it will behave
as a standard Sheetmetal component now.

NOTE. be aware that if you use this template to create new files SE will
force you to save it with the .psm extension so it may be worth keeping your
original template for normal part creation.

This was once brought to the community by Wayne Marshal Solid Apps (UK)

BTW: still works with ST1 (only the file naming is different!)


dy

 

[beachcomber]

When moving the texty on a section arrow we only see a small square, not the real text.
And.. can't add a leader to the callout text of a detail view.

bc.
2.4GHz Core2 Quad, 4GB RAM,
Quadro FX4600.

 

[Gemnoc]

In draft:

How about not being able to format text in a callout. Come on, AutoCAD has had MText for years, why can't I have both regular and bold text, or different text sizes in the same callout?

Oh, another one, similar to BC's example: when you move around the view's title, an arbitrary rectangle replaces the text, and it doesn't even show the title's real boundary!!! Now that's lame.

Or the inability to align (line up) text boxes to other text boxes or any other element, which is the reason I never use them... Talk about a useless feature!

@ bc

I rather like that sheetmetal has its own file extension and environment.

 

[PatCouture]

In Solid Edge ST1

When you are editing a part in context and you are in a sketch profile once you've finished you click on the close sketch button at the end of the ribbon bar just to come back to the edit sketch menu (where you can modify the plane step or profile). Since I want to see my part modified I'm looking for a quick way out of this menu and most of the time I wrongfully hit the close and return button which is at the exact same spot than the previous button instead of going all the way left to the finish button or hitting the escape key.

Really anoying!!!

Pat

 

[PatCouture]

I got another one

When doing a pattern or a mirror feature I always try it first as a fast feature but when it doesn't work I get a error message saying that SE could not pattern given set of topology that's when I know I should have used the smart feature so I hit the smart button and then everything is fine.

If the feature could automatically switch from fast to smart when necessary it would be very useful or at least put a smart button directly on the error message with the OK or CANCEL.

Pat

 

[burhop]

I know some of this is venting (please vent on ) but if you really want to get Siemens PLM's attention you might check out this blog post on "Providing Input":

http://siemens.pmhclients.com/index.php/site/comments/providing-input/

Mark

 

[KENAT]

I've done the IR/ER thing on a number of occasions. Haven't seen much result, but then again I'm stuck on an older version of SE so even in the unlikely event they've responded to any of my ER/IR I probably wouldn't see it would I.

Oh, and for anyone wondering, yes if big users complain (as in companies with lots of seats) they're more likely to get taken seriously than individual users. Dan said so at PLW world 2006.

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[karmoh]

Burhop, Kenat,

The idea of the post was to solicit the minor irritations that we know are there but fall in to the trap of doing anyway, like clicking the wrong button.
God forbid that Siemens would move a button just because it irritated 30,000 users on a daily basis.

And as for text boxes……….Don’t get me started