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    High temperature liquid to air heat exchanger

    Hi Folks; I need some help locating a supplier for a liquid to air heat exchanger intended to be used in a stack with 850 degree C airflow. Attempting to heat up liquid using waste heat Are there commercial heat exchanger that do this or would this be a custom design ? Many Thanks in advance...
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    File security when sharing SolidWorks files

    Hi Folks; A project I am involved with right now for the US Military involves a lot of SolidWorks drawing, assembly and part files. About 80 percent of the files are technology that belong to the US Army, the remaining 20% are our proprietary patented technology. We are in the middle of...
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    Linked properties not working in drawing

    Dear Folks; Working on a simple drawing with an assembly and a BOM, using the standard out of the box templates. I have Balloons attached to multiple views that behave properly but certain notes are linked to the custom property "description" But instead of displaying the custom property the...
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    Angular Dimensions

    Hi Bob; Ive done quite a lot of flanges in my lifetime and typically I dont use any wizard hole features when making the thru holes I use wizard features on fancy schmancy holes like NPT or BSP or countersinks and counterbores I just do the following: Open a sketch, draw a bolt circle using...
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    Configure a hole wizard feature

    Yeah I already have valves and fittings and all sorts of wonderful plumbing stuff with separate configurations for NPT size But every time I swap one out in an assembly for a different size the mates have to be reconfigured for the new size The thing is the geometry doesnt change for a tapped...
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    Configure a hole wizard feature

    Dear Folks; Can I configure a hole wizard feature in SW2012 ? That is, if I have a part with a 1-1/2" NPT pipe thread made by the hole wizard, can I configure it to 1/2", 3/4" or 1" NPT ? That way I can cycle through the sizes without having to redefine or configure mates for parts such as...
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    Minimum wall thickness of aluminum extrusion

    Dear Folks; Could anyone tell me if there is a limit to wall thickness in aluminum extrusion using 6061-T6 ? I have drawings of parts made in China with wall thickness 0.90mm and 0.80 +/- .15mm I am being told that no one in North America can extrude sections of this thickness Would...
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    PLC Software saving to AutoCad

    Dear Folks; Are the any commercial PLC packages that can save the ladder logic diagrams they create to .dwg format ? I was just checking out Rockwell Automations RSLogix programming environment and did not see any means to do this. Not sure if you have to pay for extra software to make this...
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    Same part, different colors, all on the same drawing

    Dear Folks; I have a client who wants a color coded drawing made. The drawing is meant to be laminated and shipped with the equipment so the operators can pull out the drawing and refer to it as needed. On the drawing I have a line that carries water, another that carries chemical and another...
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    Website Forum for CAD Drafting Contractors

    Hi; I have secured several contract cad assignments from Craigslist, in my opinion its an excellent place to look for work. Of course, depending on where you live and work, the local Craigslist might be different in terms of the scope of work available. LinkedIn would be another place you...
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    Hatching something strange with annotations

    I am working with Autocad 2009 annotative dimensioning and mleaders and it really is the bees knees. Except when it comes to hatching. Not really sure why these three things might be related but when I move the grips on an annotative dimension or alter the text in an mleader the hatching behind...
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    Cant change entities to another layer

    Heres a simple one I am using to being able to changing the layer of any drawing entity by clicking on it and pulling down the layer control tab and clicking on the layer I want to change the entity to. But it does not work on the clients autocad and I cannot find the setting that might be...
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    Annotative

    Im using AutoCad 2009 and I have got used to using annotative dimensioning. I tried making a block with text attributes annotative but it just dissapears when I insert it on the end of a leader. Was not visible in a different scale either. My procedure was as follows: Used attdef to create...
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    Acad 2010 Ribbon Bars

    Dear Folks; Is it easy to turn off the ribbon bars/menus in acad 2010 and replace them with the smaller icons from earlier versions ? I have custom toolbars set up in 2006 which keep almost all the icons I need on the screen at one time withing easy reach. Best Regards Adrian Dunevein AAA...
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    Snap Hook Question

    Dear Folks; I am working on a enclosure which needs to have 2 snap hooks to hold it together. These snap hooks need to be released by pushing a screwdriver blade into a recess into the enclosure. I am using SolidWorks 2008 to create the model. Does anyone know of any source where I can find a...

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