Andy
No math formula is needed.
You can do this with a 'brute-force' solution. By adding in 'alternate units', and scaling appropriately, you can do what you've asked.
If you need a +/- or such, you can put that on the prefix for the alternate dimensional units
curmudgeon
Well, the proper value for 'i' is always a very touchy topic. An (overly) simplified method is to look at your next best alternative rates available. In other words, are you *borrowing* money? - -then use the rates that you get from your financing institution(s). Or are you looking at value...
First - -go look at what is in the plant now.
Second - - talk to the people that use the jigs/fixtures IN the plant (especially the foremen - - who hear the gripes, and usually have worked each of the areas)
Ask questions. What works right? What doesn't? What else is wanted/needed ?
Third -...
I *really* hesitate to suggest this, but is it possible that you can live with a 'template' for the ellipse? In other words, what accuracy is required?
Could a simple (metal, wood, paper ?) template suffice?
If so, you can have a discussion with your better shop-guy(s) and have one template...
and a couple more pennies....
If, on the other hand, your upper management is too short-sighted to understand that cluttered prints scattered hither and yon is a 'Bad Thing' - - then co-operate with them. Fully. Horribly.
Make sure the prints are hideously un-readable with the...
Just a couple cents from the sideline:
Several of the posters above seem to be getting into the 'my way or the highway' mindset. I mean, they seem to feel there is only two options available.
A. Print out the Engineering Prints with all the Flags requested by the Inspectors, cluttering the...
This may be waaaaay too simple, but check to see if your Outer walls are on the Defpoint layer, by any chance.
(Defpoints, if you didn't already know, doesn't show up on prints. By design)
Curmudgeon
I've used 0.2835 lbs per cubic inch for years for steel. But I've seen that various vendors use numbers that vary from 0.277 to 0.29 lbs per in^3
Your mileage may vary.
Curmudgeon
code blue,
Be sure you 'explode' the part(s) you copy to your new drawing. Otherwise, they will be a unit block, and the old layers will remain.
Curmudgeon
BillBirch
Sometimes, having a picture you can point to (like in a Chinese restraunt) can save a lot of time when discussing things 'across a language barrier'.
The catalogs are a handy item on the shelf -- especially when the computer system goes down.
Curmudgeon
If I understand Riku's problem (from waaaaayyy back when) correctly, he is seeing weird 'rubbish' blocks showing up in his block-lists that don't seem to appear in his drawing.
I saw something very similar to this happen at my last company. Almost every drawing had a mysterious 'Unit Circle'...
caddepot has a few very good 3D (dxf) men and women.
(all are wire-frame, of course)
I garnered a good 'standing man' (in a work-uniform) with his sitting twin. Also, several odds and ends for females - - though most were apparantly done by wishful teenagers fantasizing about naked Playboy...
Excellent suggestion, peterson!
I've used McMaster-Carr for much the same purpose. Also, Grainger catalog is good general-purpose catalog(s), and they also have some 'local' stop-in stores. Yeah, they're pretty pricey also - - but sometimes you need that darn thing (whatever it is) yesterday...
An English-version Machinery's Handbook would be a good general purpose book, which you will be able to use for this purpose, and for it's 'normal' uses.
Curmudgeon
