Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  • Users: jbknudsen
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. jbknudsen

    API 17G - ISO:13628-7

    OK, so lets start the debate on mechanical testing. When a mechanical test calls for impact or charpy testing at 1/4t and 1/2t, what is the actual location of the test sample. If the part starts as a solid bar, yet has a finished geometry with a thru hole, then testing at the center or 1/2t...
  2. jbknudsen

    Camera in Motion Analysis

    Does anyone know why the camera path is only followed if "solidworks screen" is selected in "Save Animation to File". i get this great rendering of the item, however i cant save a rendered Animation. Any Clues, Thanks, Jay
  3. jbknudsen

    SW 2009 Lighting

    So what is up with lighting in 2009. I have just been upgraded from 07. I can not move/modify light position, color or intensity. I am not able to RC to bring up properties box either. Did i get a bad install???? Anyone else experiencing this issue. Thanks, Jay
  4. jbknudsen

    cosmos express output

    Hello group, can someone refresh my memory on how to change the setting in Cosmos exress to generte the HTML report with IPS values? all models are in IPS, values on report are all metric. Thanks in advance. Jay
  5. jbknudsen

    ASME BPV Codes

    In a jam, Full code is on the way. Does anyone have information relating to ASME B & PV Section IX article II. I need to get the coupon sizes for qualifying Al-Br inlay with 8630, 4140, and 174-PH. Thanks, JBK
  6. jbknudsen

    Modifying Legend

    Greetings to all, Does anynoe know how to remove items from the legend that do not appear in the project. Example: My legend displays "External tasks" I do not have any external tasks for this project and would like to remove the descriptor for "External tasks" MS Project 2003 Thanks, JBK
  7. jbknudsen

    "Brush Plating"

    Greetings to all!!! I am working on a project requiring a 3" bore to be refurbished in a localized area (approx 2" long encompassing the bore. The customer is wanting to "brush plate" the bore and then re-polish the surface. I am not familure with with process. I have found a few web-sites...
  8. jbknudsen

    Indented BOM

    Howdy all, Does anyone have a macro or program that will indent a bom for use in an excel spreadsheet. Let me clarify: One that is better than the "less than usable" indented bom that comes in solidworks. The solidworks indented bom shows sub-assemblies of sub-assemblies with out any way of...
  9. jbknudsen

    equevilant material to astm a106

    Greetings to all, I am working on a project that utilizes a 20.330 dia x 2" thick x 80" long drum. The drum is ASTM A106 seamless. I am removing material from the drum for access holes. I need to make 5"x3"x2" thick pods to replace the material removed from the original drum. Some of the...
  10. jbknudsen

    linking cells to "max" function

    Greetings to all. I am tracking shipments each week for a year in excell. I need to know the max shipment and the date that it was received. For example I will note the weight of the shipment of resin and the date the shipment arrived. I have 52 fields for the weight and the next row has the...
  11. jbknudsen

    slope of a tangent

    Howdy to all. we are working on a problem that involves finding the slope of a tangent to a curve. Myself and a few other are arriving with consistant answers, however, our answers are not correct. Q: Find the slope of a tangent to the curve of y=ln(25x + 3) at x=2. Running the natural log...
  12. jbknudsen

    Revision Table Text

    Greetings to all. This is a Revision Table issue. The text formatting is still yet to be desired. I am finding that the text field (or column) width is always much larger than than the text. For example "ITEM" has a text box that will allow 12 characters in the field priot to the text box...
  13. jbknudsen

    PDF error

    Greetings everyone, been a while for me. I am experiencing an "unexpected error while converting pdf" message at the very end of what seems to be a normal "saveas pdf" exercise. I can not save any files as pdf format. I am running SW 2004 SP3.1. Any clues. Thanks, Jay
  14. jbknudsen

    Planes 1,2 & 3

    Greetings to all. I am aware that once a plane has been "autosized" the plane will always be 5% larger than the associated geometry or bounding box. Here is the question. Is there a way to have the autosize activated for all new parts or existing parts for that matter? I have...
  15. jbknudsen

    Macro for Placing CL text on line

    Geetings to all. A question was posed today that it would be nice to have a centerline symbol placed in the middle of our centerlines yet would be allowed to slide along the centerline if needed. Is there a macro or option that allows this. I have tried to add horizontal relations to the text...
  16. jbknudsen

    Pendulum calculations

    Greetings to all. I am trying to determine what the peak force or load (in lbs) is on a wire when a pendulum is at the apex of its swing. All of the calculations that I have found seem to deal with determining the time of a full cycle. I understand that I will need to have "time" and...
  17. jbknudsen

    Torque converted to load

    I am trying to calculate the load required to remove a circular shell from a circular urethane mold. The process currently employes a 3/4" dia 6 pitch acme rod x 24" long and a pneumatic impact wrench in conjucnction with a spredder bar. I am wanting to replace this operation with...
  18. jbknudsen

    Bolt Length

    Greetings to all, Is there a rule of thumb when considering the length of a bolt. For instance, I would not want to use a 3/8" dia bolt that was 14" long. I am aware that the thread engagement should be 1:1 in respect to the dia. of the fastener. At what point will the bolt be so...
  19. jbknudsen

    Consistant width for bom column in drawing

    Greetings to all, I have a bom that has been modified in Excel to match colums widths in conjunction to our drawing t-block. When the bom is inserted in the dwg, the coulums all "autosize". Is there a system variable or option that needs to adjusted in SW or Excel. SW -2001+ sp4.0...
  20. jbknudsen

    B.O.M. Duplication

    Greetings, I have modified bomtemp.xls only to add a material field. After the bom (modified)is inserted into a drawing or assy and then printed, the bom has duplicating line items. This also happens after a rebuild or a print preview. I strongly suspect the bom that has been modified and not...

Part and Inventory Search