I have a template assembly I use as a starting point for our products. It is done as an assembly with multiple skeleton sketches. All part dimensions are linked to the skeleton sketches, which are all controlled via a design table in the assembly.
I would like to control the suppression of a...
We are a small company who are looking at getting a basic Ansys license and a fatigue model license to confirm our inhouse calculations and to optimize designs.
My concerns would be the materials database for fatigue calculations. Where does one get decent data to create their materials...
Fairly new to ms project, and trying to see if we can shoehorn it into a schedular for our business. An engineer to order business, that repeatedly makes fairly similar parts.
So we get a new order to produce a 4 units of an item. It has an operation/task that uses an arc-welding workstation...
I used search, and found some closed threads only so i had to make a new one.
I have created an assembly, with all parts, and drawings as a template. The whole system is run via design tables with vba programming, works real slick.
All my guys need to do is copy the template, run the macro in...
I've had this problem several times, where i want to show a pitch circle on a drawing. Such as a diameter that a series of holes would be drilled on.
There is several options
-sketch within the drawing
-sketch within the part
In both you have to have 'view sketches' turned on. If the sketch is...
We have a couple customers who insist on dual dimensions when we send them drawings for approval. Where im confused is what one doies with geometric tolerancing control boxes.
Do you put both dimensions, with the secondary in [ ] inside the box, do 2 boxes, or just show geo tolerances in the...
I have assemblies that i download from suppliers, liek skf bearings. They are great and very detailed. The problem is sometimes they are too detailed. A large bearing may be an assembly of 100 parts. Add a few bearings and my assembly goes from 20 parts to 420 parts.
I want to change the...
Hi folks.
Our company went ahead and purchased solidworks.
I'm now trying to get everythign set up correctly.
I've used pdmworks before just as secure storage, but not for revision control. We want to have prerelease drawings with alpha, and post release revisions be numeric. I want the...
Were narrowing down the 3d package our company is going to use, which most likely will be solidworks.
This then leads to the next question, of FEA analysis. We produce conveyor pulleys. A long shaft mounted in bearings, a couple compression/friction fittings, end plates, and a pulley rim/drum...
Is there any site that explains the actual measuring methods and procedures for various geomteric tolerancing methods?
Its all well and good to spec concentricity, cylindricty, tir, circular runout, etc, but if the shop guys dont know how the measuring procedures that differentiate between...
3 years ago when I was last in a postition needing to evaluate and decide on a 3d cad package, the choice was quite easy. 3 years ago solidworks had the tools needed, and inventor was playing catch up. Now 3 years later I'm once again tasked with deciding, but the race seems a lot closer.
My...
Our shop produces shafts. The shafts have 3 stepped diameters at each end. The designers have been using concetricity callout on the shaft diameters in relation to one of the bearing journals.
From any research I do it says to not use concentricity if at all possible, since most shops are...
I've decided the best workflow routine for our company if we go with Solidworks will be using assemblies with all part sizes and configs controlled at the assembly level.
The prefered method for this is to use a skeleton sketch of planes, axes, points, etc and then creating all the parts "in...
IS solidworks able to use the inch " suffix in a dimension style ?
It seems I can only get inches suffix by using ft-inch units, except I dont want feet just the inches.
I guess its following ansi standards, but my shop has 30 years of following drawings done a certain way and dont really care...
I've recently moved to a company that is looking to switch from 2d acad to the 3d world, using either solidworks or inventor.
I have used solidworks in a different industry so my experiance is not fully relevant in certain areas.
We produce an assembly, made of about 8 parts, in maybe 20...
