In ~1950, my family moved into a new house, which turned out to have a wet basement.
The builder went bankrupt.
At his expense, Dad had the interior basement perimeter excavated to a depth of 1.5' and a width of 1', then filled with gravel, terra cotta pipe, tarpaper, and more gravel to a level...
https://www.theleadenhallbuilding.com/
https://www.google.com/search?q=leadenhall+building+video&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
I caught a video, I think on PBS, about this building.
It was erected in (crowded) central London, with no hotwork in the sky, with the basic structure going up at...
He says some good things about engineers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPSA6FBdYk
There are worse ways to spend an hour.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
I'm trying to make a polar array from an existing object, 17 objects at a little less than one degree apart.
DS will let me make the array just fine if I give a positive number for the angle, but unfortunately the base object is at the CCW end of where I want to place the array.
DS will not...
Using V1R5, Fedora version, under CentOS 6.5, latest.
No issues of any kind were reported at installation.
I've produced a simple 2D model in model space, and went to paperspace tab1 to produce a drawing of one of the parts. ... for which purpose only two of half a dozen layers need be...
See also thread163-39768
I guess it's all settled now, but I'd like to strangle the bureaucrat who sat at a desk and dreamed up the truncated dome 'detectable warning' for visually handicapped people.
My point is that the domes are easily detectable to anyone with a healing bone, by means of...
Not loose floor mats, not a sticky pedal, not driver error.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319903&itc=eetimes_sitedefault&cid=NL_EET_Daily_20131028&elq=4ac15f69559942b9ade56983b2b6d422&elqCampaignId=2021
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
I was watching Extreme Survival Bunkers on the Travel Channel just now.
One bunker is a former missile silo, intended to be self-sustaining, converted to real nice condos. All of the video was apparently shot before occupancy, and before painting of staircases, etc. was done, but it's a...
For much of the past year, I've been living at my son's house in an older, quiet neighborhood in Eastern Pennsylvania. During that time, a small number of very large trees have been removed, some because they were just scary big, and one because it leaned over against my son's house during...
... is what I now see when I start Draftsight, under Wine, on Fedora.
Then the modal dialog box closes.
I could swear that I have already registered the product.
Now it won't even start.
What next?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
I am of course in sunny South Florida, but my sister lives in the ancestral small tract house in upstate NY. The house has a typical sloped shingled roof, now covered with still increasing amounts of snow, and she asked how to get it off. Actually, she just asked for ways to get some salt up...
2009.5.0 XP32 4Gb
Maybe it's because I'm working with big models, but I'm getting really tired of the Solidworks cursor misrepresenting what's going on.
E.g., I save a file, and the cursor changes to an hourglass.
Okay, fine, it should do that; it's busy.
A minute or two later, the cursor...
I could swear it was working yesterday.
If I highlight the part in the feature tree, RMB, Copy With Mates, I get a blank dialog box asking me to select a part. So I select a part in the graphics area, its name shows up in the dialog box, I click OK, and ... the dialog box closes and nothing...
I mean, not so fast getting started.
First, I had to make a model that was seamless.
Okay, that's out of the way.
Now, I'm trying to specify the inlet conditions.
But with the >required< caps in place, I can't seem to tell FX what face is to be the inlet face. I keep getting the message "The...
When Harold routes a pipe on a skid, and then I open the skid assembly, some/all of the pipes show up as 1" diameter x 20 ft long, regardless of the diameter or length that Harold actually used.
If I highlight one of those pipes and click Properties, it points to a Pipe.sldprt within the design...
... is about what SW2009.4.1 is managing to do, while doing automatic repair of a fairly complex object imported from a step file.
It's using exactly 50 pct of a dual-core CPU, and is using 0.5Gb of 2Gb that should be available to it under XP.
The file is actually on a Passport drive with a...
SW2009.4.1
Today I was importing a STEP file of a pump inlet casting, with a ~45 degree ell cast into the cover. The outer surface of the outer half of the ell showed up as a persistent gap, i.e., no surface there.
So, I right-clicked and said 'close the gap'. No joy.
I right-clicked again...
2009.4.1
I'm trying to copy an ordinate dimension.
I.e., the dim line points to an edge of a hole in a panel.
I want to copy it so the new dim line points to a parallel edge of another hole in the same panel.
I hold down the CTRL key, and drag the tip point of the dim line to the end of the new...
A local expert has proposed building 'rails' atop an existing slab to support a big engine, said rails comprising a number of rebars bent into a squared U shape and epoxied into paired holes drilled in the slab, surrounded by epoxy grout poured into a plywood form.
He calls the formed rebars...
