Hello, hope all is great.
Would anyone happen to know of any guidelines for conducting a structural assessment of an exisiting building? I am only familiar with the two guidelines listed below:
1. The Building Authority in Singapore has a guideline on periodic structural engineering...
Hello, hope all is great. Here is a post on "fuel savings and carbon footprint" for anyone interested in learning more about SolidWorks Sustainability:
http://www.inkavera.com/2010/10/04/solidworks-sustainability/fuel-savings-and-calculating-carbon-footprint-in-solidworks-sustainability/
All...
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Hope all is great.
I am teaching an FEA course at a local college and noticed that all the student machines have this problem.
1) Open a part or assembly in SolidWorks
2) Run the Floworks study wizard
3) Name the study and select next
4) The window where one selects the type of...
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Hope all is great.
Is there a way to add acceleration in more than one direction in COSMOSWorks? For example, you have a car that is driving and you have to slam on the brakes. You would have gravity going downwards, but also the deceleration going along in a different direction...
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Here is a blog article we did on the Central Canada Regional Users Group (CCRUG) Conference which featured presentations on NX6, Synchronous Technology, and Product Template Studio.
http://www.cadmech.com/blog/?p=35
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Here is a 3D CAD simulation of Leonardo DaVinci's self propelled cart using SolidWorks:
http://realgeniuses.sw-campaign.com/
If anyone knows of other interesting 3D CAD simulations of ancient or renaissance engineering please post them here.
cheers,
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Imagine you have a bend table with multiple angles. And let's say you had the angles 88 degrees and 90 degrees in your table. But you created a bend that was 89 degrees in your model. Note that the table does not have information for 89 degrees. Does SolidWorks interpolate (between...
Hello,
Was looking at the SolidWorks 2008 Help and it says that SolidWorks now supports Multiple Angles in a Single Bend Table File (Excel Bend Tables). However, I can't find an example on how to do this. Anyone know how (i.e. what the formatting looks like) or know where is there a sample...
Hello,
Has anyone run into this problem?
1) You have an assembly
2) You save it as a part (Exterior Faces)
3) You open the new part and see gaps (i.e. missing faces) in the surfaces
We are running into this problem with some assemblies that were imported from NX as parasolid. Our VAR thinks...
Is there a command or way in NX to suppress all internal components in an assembly?
For example, imagine you have an assembly of an office cabinet. Is there a way to automatically suppress all the internals of the cabinet (i.e. everything inside the drawers)?
Hello,
Is there a way to save a UG assembly into 1 multi body part?
Is there a way to shrink wrap it, so that only the external components or external faces are saved (i.e. there are no internal components)?
Thanking you in advance,
Joseph
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called "The Sons of Martha", which is dedicated to all those that work in the background with no glory, simply so that all things work (e.g. engineers, construction workers etc.).
Here is a story of the poem...
Hello all,
Just wanted to create a thread for those that want to share salary data. For example the Professional Engineers Ontario has a salary survey:
http://www.ospe.on.ca/salarysurveys.html
If you know of others and want to share them please post them here.
Good day, how can one get the smallest value that is greater than or equal to a lookup_value?
For example if the lookup value was 150 and the range was:
010, 100, 200, 300, 400
I would like to choose 200, since it is greater than 150 and is smaller than the 300 and 400.
The problem with...
Good day, just installed SWX 2008 SP1.0 and can't get even a simple equation in a part to work. We always get "syntax is incorrect".
Is there an issue with SP1.0 (i.e. do you get the same problem)? Or is this more of an installation problem (i.e. it is only us)?
Good day, is there a way to hide the first row in a cut list? The row that contains the labels Part Number, Item Number, Description, Length etc.
Happy thanksgiving,
Good day
We received some Pro/E files from a customer.
We tried opening them in WildFire 2 and WildFire 3 and always get either of these messages:
file name.prt is an invalid file
file name.prt cannot be retrieved
I don't know what version of Pro/E these files are. What could be causing this?
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Good day, we are thinking of adding the following enhancement to SWX, but wanted your thoughts on this issue first:
"allow drawing view envelope to move, while feature remains fixed"
Here is why we need this enhancement:
1) We have nozzles in pressure vessels
2) We have a master...
Good day,
Noticed that SolidWorks Routing is becoming more widely used. I am starting this thread in order to list some SolidWorks Routing Best Practices. Your ideas are very welcome.
Here is a tip to get the ball rolling:
- There is a switch (setting) "Constrain fitting to sketch" and...
