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    RoHS compliance note on drawings.

    We as designers are responsible for being certain that the materials we call for parts to be made of are in compliance and the drawings go out with requirements for certs. But these edicts for notes come down from above and sometimes make more sense to management than the people who have to...
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    RoHS compliance note on drawings.

    We are required to place a RoHS compliance note on the drawing of every part that comprises an assembly that we sell as RoHS compliant. The note we have been using may be a bit ambiguous and I was wondering what other people use as their standard note. We use: ALL MATERIAL, HARDWARE AND FINISH...
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    Feature Driven Component Pattern - Patterning Seed Feature

    I generally use the hole pattern (tapped holes) that sits below the slot to make a feature driven pattern. It does require that you mate one of the fasteners to the hole first instead of being able to use a smart mate to the feature in the surface that, usually the flat washer, the first...
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    Working in Comfort

    I have progressive lenses but they seem to only progressively make my eyesight worse. I'll have to try some separate dedicated glasses and see how they work out. Besides, the progressives are a pain if you want to lay down and watch TV.
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    Working in Comfort

    I like the arm adjustability on that one. Unfortunately I live in a cube farm with a wrap around desk so I currently use a chair with one arm off so that my mouse arm rests on the table and my left on an arm rest.
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    Working in Comfort

    I have tried for a position that puts more of the weight on my legs than my a$$ but I don't know how the physics of that is supposed to work. In a sitting position the center of gravity kind of forces most of the weight to be right on my seat. It seems the only way to change that would be to...
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    Working in Comfort

    It looks like the Herman Miller Equa chair has ample padding at the front of the chair where my chair seems to be lacking it. That may be a key feature for me to look for since that is the main zone that seems to be causing me pain. I haven't had much problem with chair theft yet but that may be...
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    military spec cad models!

    http://quicksearch.dla.mil/ is the site I use to find mil specs. Very many are superseded by SAE specs which you have to pay for but the historic superseded ones should, in most cases give enough info to create or confirm model geometry. http://www.mcmaster.com/# McMaster-Carr also has lots of...
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    Working in Comfort

    Does anyone have one of those aeron chairs? Are they worth it?
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    Working in Comfort

    Thanks MadMango, apparently the only pain at work isn't just the boss and the bugs. I've been wishing for a department masseuse for years now. They say we should be buying mattresses more often but I think my chair padding died a long time ago.
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    Working in Comfort

    I am thinking about that option. I just don't want to go and spend $1000 and find the chair is no more comfortable than a moderately priced one. Hoping someone out there found one that stays comfortable for those long hours in the zone and could tell me about it.
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    Working in Comfort

    This may be a bit off topic but it is something we probably all deal with. Does anyone have any recommendations for task chairs? I have worked for the same company for over 20 years and I think most of our chairs started here before I did. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat all day long and...
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    Undo Threshold?

    I mentioned that solution to him and he said he had tried it. Maybe, like you said, it has to be reset repeatedly and so that was why he said it wouldn't work. I suggested to him to make some sections of the sketch into sketch blocks to reduce the entity count and number of conditions to solve...
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    Undo Threshold?

    I can't tonight. Just about quitting time. I couldn't believe it myself until I saw it. I thought maybe he was confused by the things that should be undoable but aren't. But I watched him delete lines in the sketch and the undo and redo under the edit menu stayed grayed out. Guess we'll try...
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    Undo Threshold?

    I didn't mean a limitation on how many steps back you can go. I meant that he can't undo AT ALL because he has too many entities in the sketch.

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