<\/STRONG>[editor] This is an article submitted by Tushar Suradkar for publishing in the Solid Edge Community Blog. <\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n
Solid Edge Can Sense<\/STRONG> Take a simplified design by using a pattern of holes along the periphery as shown in figure for next step.<\/P><\/p>\n The amount <\/STRONG>or rate<\/STRONG> of fluid flowing through the orifice is an in-direct function of the surface area<\/STRONG> of the circular face of the Orifice Plate. The more the area of the face, lesser the area of the holes and lesser the amount of flowing fluid. Setup the Sensor<\/STRONG> Specify Surface Areas<\/STRONG> You specify a negative area exclusively in cases where there is a disjoint area on another face on the model that you want to include in the calculations, if required by that particular design. Specify Sensor Parameters<\/STRONG> Type in a Name<\/STRONG> for the sensor something like Orifice Design<\/STRONG> or even your pet’s name will do. Just right to the current value is the Edit Area Value<\/STRONG> button (1<\/STRONG> in fig) that you can click if you want to re-specify the area again.<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n Specify Limits<\/STRONG> Sensor Ready – Test It<\/STRONG> Sensor Working<\/STRONG> Now with the sensor thinking for you<\/STRONG> in the background, feel free to experiment with the orifice dimensions. Note :<\/STRONG> Anytime you wish to change any of the sensor settings, right-click on the Orifice Sensor and select Edit<\/STRONG> from the menu.<\/P><\/p>\n ~ Tushar Suradkar<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [editor] This is an article submitted by Tushar Suradkar for publishing in the Solid Edge Community Blog. <\/p>\n Solid Edge Can Sense Solid Edge has a feature called Sensors – call it your …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61781,"featured_media":9094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,96],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-story","category-news","category-tips-tricks"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/0001-4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Solid Edge has a feature called Sensors<\/STRONG> – call it your sixth sense.<\/P>
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And it helps everyone who uses Solid Edge – machinists, mold tooling designers, sheet metal specialists and everyone.<\/P>
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Sensors in Solid Edge are highly developed, each intended to be used for a different purpose.
This article takes the example of an orifice<\/STRONG> design and shows how the Surface Area Sensor<\/STRONG> can make life easier for a designer.<\/P><\/p>\n![\"1.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/1-14.jpg\" "\\"1.jpg\\"")
<\/span>Problem Definition<\/STRONG>
The task is to design an orifice plate as shown in figure. The plate is circular and has numerous circular holes.<\/P><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/STRONG>What is a Sensor<\/STRONG>
Keeping that in mind, setup a Surface Area Sensor<\/STRONG> that will alert you whenever the surface area crosses a pre-defined limit.<\/P>
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By now you must have gathered a faint idea about a sensor. Per Solid Edge Help,
You can use the Sensors tab on the EdgeBar tool to define and keep track of design parameters for your parts and assemblies.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/STRONG>1. Click on the Sensors tab on the EdgeBar.
see figure.
2. Click the Surface Area Sensor<\/STRONG> button at the top of this tab.<\/P><\/p>\n
Select the top face of the Orifice Plate.
See figure. This is the positive area.<\/P>
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Click accept<\/P><\/p>\n![\"5.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/5-30.png\" "\\"5.png\\"")
<\/span>The next tool on the ribbon bar is to select negative area. Since the holes are also a part of the circular face of the plate, there is no need to specify negative area separately.<\/P>
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By now, the Sensor Parameters<\/STRONG> dialog has popped up so you can educate the sensor.<\/P><\/p>\n
In the Sensor Definition<\/STRONG> area, the current value is now displayed.<\/P>
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Set other options as shown (2<\/STRONG> and 3<\/STRONG> in figure)
Specify a Threshold<\/STRONG> value of 1500 or as may be in your case.
See red ball no. 4<\/STRONG> in figure above.<\/P>
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Take a glance at the description generated<\/STRONG> and appreciate how the sensor also thinks for you<\/STRONG>.
By setting Display Type<\/STRONG> to Horizontal range, you can check if the area falls between two values that you specify in the Sensor Range<\/STRONG> area.<\/P>
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For the present case, select True\/False<\/STRONG> since we are interested in checking the surface area and arrest the design when it goes beyond\/falls below a preset mark.<\/P><\/p>\n
The final step is to use your sixth sense – the Orifice Sensor.
Right click on the Sensor tab and select Tear Off<\/STRONG> from the menu.<\/P>
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You do this to view both the sensor and the Feature Pathfinder tab as you change the surface area.<\/P><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Switch to the Feature Pathfinder<\/STRONG> tab and change the diameter of the hole or the count in the pattern (since the diameter of the plate is to be kept fixed).<\/P>
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As soon as the surface area for the Orifice Plate crosses the threshold limit that you specified earlier, the sensor will change the green signal to red.<\/P>
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