Using AI to edit Solid Edge Projects

Hana designs camera adapters. A freelancer made the lens flange in Solid Edge, and that engagement ended. Now the product team wants a bayonet lens instead of a screw-on lens, so the operator can change lenses in a quarter turn. The camera body side of the flange must not change.

Hana opens the flange in Flux and asks for the change:

"We are changing from a screw-on lens to a bayonet lens. Add a 12 mm tall front collar on the front face of the ring, around the bore. Add three bayonet tabs on the inside of the collar, 120 degrees apart, and a spring-loaded locking pin in the collar face, with a release button on the outside. The four M3 camera-body screws on the 71 mm pitch circle do not change, and they must stay accessible: no part of the collar may cover a screw head or come within 2 mm of it. Check this before you finish. Then export a STEP file."

What Flux built

• A 12 mm tall collar around the bore, with four scallops that keep each M3 screw head open from the front for a hex key.
• Three bayonet tabs inside the collar, 120° apart.
• A spring-loaded locking pin in the collar face, linked to a release button on the outside of the collar.
• No change to the Ø90 mm ring, the Ø60 mm bore or the four M3 screws on the Ø71 mm pitch circle.

Flux measured the gap between the collar and each screw head. The smallest gap is 2.19 mm, so every screw stays reachable. It then exported the assembly as a STEP file with 11 separate solids and opened the file again to check each solid.

In Flux, the change took a few hours. Hana can send the STEP file to the machine shop today, and the camera board and body stay as they are. Use Flux for your next camera-mount revision.