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    laptop for I-DEAS NX

    We use Dell Latitude D600's with 1.6 GHZ processors, 30 GB hard drives, 512 MB RAM, and ATI Rage Mobility Radeon 7500 AGP adapter with 32 MB RAM. These are about a year old and are used for demonstrations and light modeling. I'd look at some of the newer Dell's with the Mobility Radeon 9700's...
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    Need advice on drilling holes in Aluminum

    I need some advice on repetitively drilling holes in aluminum. Here's my situation - I have a 2.75 in dia. 2014-T6 aluminum piece that I am drilling 12 holes radially around the piece. The holes I'm drilling are .126-.128 dia by .205-.215 deep. I have a machine that uses a Suhner drilling...
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    Proof MS-Project written by Husbands

    After reading some help files, I figured out that it assumed BOTH Husband and Wife had 40 hrs of work to do. It assumed this by assigning both resources when the task was initially created. If you create the task with just the Husband and set it to 5 days duration, then add the Wife at 50%...
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    Save As PDF...

    I have Acrobat distiller installed on my NT machine which gives me an Acrobat PDF printer. I just export a PFF in drafting and use the old plot routine to print to a PDF. Pretty simple and painless. Lee R. Nichols Lee.Nichols@thiokol.com

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