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The Arch Way The Newsletter for Friends of Archway Systems Volume 22, Number 2 Summer 13 Upcoming Events: New Archway Site Archway Systems, Inc. April 30 — Solid Edge SP Webinar ArchwaySystems.com is all new! With Southern California: June 4 — Solid Edge SP Webinar easier access to all the information you need, 2134 Main St, Ste. 160 June 18 — Rhino 5 Webinar the new ArchwaySystems.com is a great place Huntington Beach, CA 92648 to get to know all of the products we offer, Phone: 714-374-0440 Upcoming Webinars send us an inquiry for services or products, Fax: 714-374-0301 and register for events! Check it out today! [email protected] We have three mechanical webinars coming up in the next few months. The first Rhino 5 and 3DConnexion—A Northern California: will take place Tuesday, April 30th, from Natural Pairing 56 Nicholl Ave 10am to 11am. It will cover Solid Edge SP With the new improvements in Rhino 5, Point Richmond, CA 94801 (formerly called Insight XT). The second will paired with a 3DConnexion 3D mouse, your 510-231-0502 be another webinar on Solid Edge SP on designing process can be faster and more [email protected] Tuesday, June 4th, from 10am to 11am. intuitive, as if you’re holding the model in WWW.ARCHWAYSYSTEMS. COM Learn how Solid Edge SP can improve your hand. With this pairing you can have WWW.VERSACAD . COM your design management with a visual intelligent 3D navigation, enhanced approach based on Microsoft Sharepoint. camera navigation, and customizable Solid Edge SP is PLM/PDM software buttons. designed explicitly for firms that rely on Solid Rhino 5 has a new 3D mouse button Inside this issue: Edge as their design software. It is the natural mapping editor, allowing you to easily assign follow up to Solid Edge Insight that was first your favorite commands to the 3D mouse Who’s Who at 2 introduced in 2001 and has over 1000 Archway Systems function keys. And navigation is even better, customers. whether you are navigating through your Solid Edge ST vs 2 Spend just 50 minutes on this webinar to model or you’re using the camera, target SolidWorks learn how to save 50 times that amount of camera, or helicopter navigation modes. A MyCADvideos.com 2 time in the first 3 months! 3DConnexion 3D mouse can make this Register for the April 30th webinar. Or experience even easier, more natural and register here for the June 4th webinar. intuitive to help speed up your design process Our third webinar will be on Tuesday, and make you more efficient as a designer. June 18th, from 10am to 11am, covering Contact Archway today for more What’s New in Rhino 5. information on a 3DConnexion 3D mouse or If you are a Rhino user or interested in Rhino 5 to see how you can best utilize this Rhino 5 you won’t want to miss this quick natural pairing. update on Rhino 5 including Gumball for quick editing and many more new features. Solid Edge Free IPad App Register today for the June 18th Rhino Solid Edge has a free app for the iPad that webinar. allows you to interactively view and share 3D See ArchwaySystems.com/Events for all models created in Solid Edge anytime, of our upcoming events. Contact Archway anywhere on your iPad. Check out the Solid for more information about these webinars, Edge Mobile Viewer in the iTunes App Solid Edge SP or Rhino 5. Store today. Page 2 The Arch Way CAD Digest: Solid Edge ST vs SolidWorks Christopher McAndrew, a long time SolidWorks something and Solid Edge ST’s history-less parametric user, at CAD Digest ran a comparison of SolidWorks vs. modeling which allows you to focus more on the design Solid Edge and wrote an article “Getting an Edge Over of the part, rather than the order in which you design it. SolidWorks.” With his 7+ years of SolidWorks With this difference, comes a new way of thinking with experience, he wanted to know how easy it would be to design. If you have used SolidWorks for many years and transfer to a different mechanical CAD software like have become accustomed to the feature tree, history- Solid Edge. So he put it to the test. based way of modeling, switching to a history-less way McAndrew found that Solid Edge installs easily and of modeling can take some time. Also McAndrew says runs more smoothly than SolidWorks, in that he never that Synchronous Technology makes it “easier to work had to force-quit the program. He attributes this with files created by others, while providing the power possibly to the difference between SolidWorks’ history- to create new designs from scratch.” based modeling and Solid Edge Synchronous The biggest surprise for McAndrew was the fact that Technology’s history-less parametric modeling. after only 50 hours of working with Solid Edge ST5 he He also found that the layout and interface was “surprisingly [felt] like a proficient Solid Edge user.” similar enough, using similar symbols for the same Though there are many add-ins that may require more functions, to be intuitive for anyone switching from one learning, Solid Edge is generally intuitive and easy to mechanical CAD package to another. This made his pick up, even if you’re new to mechanical CAD. learning process faster. He has many more great thoughts in his full article The biggest difference he saw was between on CADDigest.com. Read it for a more complete look SolidWorks’ history-based feature tree modeling which at the differences between Solid Edge ST and can create problems in the order in which you design SolidWorks. Archway’s Product Line Archway is a full service provider of technical Services: Who’s Who at Archway software serving the Academic, Architectural, Training Systems Phone support Civil and Mechanical Engineering markets. Tom Lazear On-site support Administration, Sales & Training Design & Engineering Software: Customizing George McMeans MicroStation, ProjectWise and applications Consulting Sales & Training in Nor. Cal. 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