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Ted Barham is the person behind BarhamSoftware.com. Mechanical engineer by day, he spends his leisure time honing his skills in Visual Basic and maintaining this website. He also occasionally takes on consulting jobs to help pay the bills.

The following are descriptions of some custom programs he has written for hire. If you have a modest programming job for Solid Edge automation, contact Ted Barham to see if he might be able to help.

 

Past SE consulting project examples

• Created a macro called ASM2DXFs that is run from the assembly environment. When launched, the macro exports flat pattern (DXF) files for every sheet-metal file in the active assembly. The macro uses existing orientation information for sheetmetal files that already have a flattened model, and it creates incrementally-named copies of parts that show up multiple times in the assembly. All resulting DXF files are stored in a single directory ready to be transferred to a laser or plasma machine.
  
  
• The PropSummary code was modified to look at only draft files -- extracting the file property information not from the draft files, but from the first-placed parts shown in the draft files. The client purchased the modified source code for use in his own software.
  
  
• Developed a set of functions to allow a CAD/CAM software manufacturer to read sheetmetal flat-pattern data directly. By accessing the flat pattern geometry straight from the Solid Edge .PSM file, the users will no longer have to remember to export DXF files -- and they'll never have to worry about out-of-date .DXF files either.
  
  
• The AutoNumber add-in automatically names Solid Edge files with a part number assigned from a central database. In this way, networked users need only choose to save a file and they'll be guaranteed that the file is automatically named with a unique file name. In addition, a toolbar button allows the user to "check out" a unique part number from the database without having it attached to a Solid Edge file.
  
  
• The ImageMaker add-in creates [.TIF] images of draft files whenever a drawing is saved. In this case the small bitmaps were linked to the company's ERP.
  

• The BackgroundChanger program is used to replace the background of Draft files. This allowed the client to change the background and title-block on all of its existing draft files.
  
  
• The BatchRenamer program renames Solid Edge files based on their 'Document Number' property & updates links to point to renamed files.

NOTE:
Many of these programs are available for sale and can be customized to your needs. If you're interested, send an email to Ted Barham.