@Dave Just trying to educate myself. I'm interested in better understanding what you are saying. If I move the cylinder 1" the door will move in an arc x distance. Do you mean how far the center of mass moves or the door arm connection or? This is where I get tripped up. Reading and...
This is not homework. I've taken some engineering classes so I'm familiar with the theory and terms. I've just never been good at applying it.
I'm building a little enclosure with a pneumatic cylinder-actuated door. Need some help making the free-body diagram and force needed to open the door...
How do I add an ordinate arrow to show which direction it is coming from? Chain adds chained arrows to all ordinate dims. I thought there was a way to just show a short arrow at the ordinate dim.
I believe it would only fail at the hex portion. I'm curious to see how thin the hex portion can be. My stated torque for the lock nut this is for is 100ft-lbs.
I'm making a custom wrench for personal use. For fun, I'd like to run an FEA and see if the wrench will fail. below is a similar wrench. A torque wrench is applied to the square hole. Where do I fix and apply the load? Should it be a torque or a force?
I need to have a baffle sweep around a nozzle opening in between 2 cylinders. The baffle is open on the bottom. I'm having a heck of a time trying to visualize it. I've attached a part file with the geometry and some screenshots of my attempt. The last screenshot it what it would look like...
Posted this in the SW forum figured I'd try here as well. The attached macro counts hole wizard holes and returns the count in an excel file. How do I have it return the count in a dialog box? I assume this is...
