From my understanding, BS 3643 is based the suite of ISO standards, so much so from my experience that I'd go so far to say it just paraphrases them.
I don't know if this is my having worked for a "European" companies for so long in the past, but if BSI has adopted and published the ISO...
I'm currently a "Member" of the Institute of Engineering and Technology - about 80% of the way through applying for my Chartership (would be a PE 'equivalent' in the US I suppose but let's not open that can of worms).
I have however sort of lost interest in the very general scope of this...
My working arrangement is this: I work for an engineering consultancy, I'm currently working on secondment to one of their clients (client pays my company $x in return for y hours of my time, I spend this time working in the client's office).
The problem is this: A project is going at snail's...
Is anyone aware of an anayltical method to estimate tool induced deflection when turning a relatively thin walled cylinder on a vertical lathe? I'm aware I could use FEA or similar software to solve my problem for me but it seems a simple enough problem that there must be a first principles way...
This is a question for the ex-Pro/E users I suppose.
A Pro/E coordinate system, when mated to another coordinate system has an origin, an offset in X, Y and Z and a rotation about X, Y and Z.
It would be really handy to have these 6-degrees of freedom in Solidworks but the developers seem to...
Apologies for being new at Solidworks and constantly referencing Pro/Engineer functionality.
Where I used to work, we used Pro Engineer WF4, which loads settings files on startup in a defined order, it loaded the corporate standard config, then on top of this loaded a local company config, then...
Does anyone know if the macro record functionality has been fixed in Libre 4.2? It's been broken in 4.1 which we have at work, only records parts of the macro and misses bits. MS Office is planned shortly but it would be handy if I can bend IT's arm to update Libre in the meantime just for macro...
Does anyone have a copy of both of the above standards to hand and can tell me the difference between them? I'm fluent in ISO 1101. But upon reading the ISO description for ISO 5459, it appears to be pretty much the same thing, graphical descriptions on how to attach datums and symbols to...
I'm fairly new to Solidworks having used Pro/E for the best part of my career.
Is there a way to have an annotation note constrained to a position on the view in a model. In such a way so when I rotate, zoom in etc. the note stays independent from the models position and remains on the same...
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A quick google brought up no answers for this and one guy who had the same problem with no resolution. At our company we show tolerances as limits to help machinists. Most of the time it isn't an issue working out what the nominal size is in the case of something like 10.0-10.1, It...
Hello all.
I will start off by saying this will be a very open ended question and I'm more after sparking discussion than getting a concrete answer.
At my workplace there are three main offices. Finance, who I'm not interested in. Design, where I work and Technical, where everyone else works...
I will start with this statement. Normally for document revision control I use ERP which does everything I want to do here but I cannot use for various reasons. I am doing it in Windows explorer and I can't install any additional software due to company policies regarding doing so. These are the...
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I'm creating a drawing in Pro/E WF4 which has some complex geometry with an important part under it all, I want to show this part as hidden line but not the entire model, otherwise there are so many hidden lines it is impossible to see the component. Am I...
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Im looking at starting up a garage business making some spun components from thin aluminium with a fairly intricate shape but fairly wide tolerances. Would it be possible to spin say a bell shape from 1mm thk aluminium, about 90mm long and 60mm max diameter on a wood turning lathe? I...
Heres a question which has puzzled me for a while and I have been unable to get an answer.
In a former life I designed a lighting mast for export to an American firm. Presumably someone somewhere would have had to stamp the design before it was constructed. How would this work as I did the...
I noticed CAD Schroer have a free 'personal' verion of Medusa4 up for download on their website. I use Draftsight at home and frankly I hate it (mainly because Im not used to it) but find Medusa 2000 (which I use for modifying 2d drawings at work) brilliant.
Has / does anyone use Medusa4 and...
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I need to know the straigtness tolerance for a HSS drill blank to DIN338, anyone able to point me in the right direction?
My copy of DIN338 is conveniently in German (which I can't read) and I can't make out anything to do with straigtness as it's more to do with the...
Is there a way of implicitly stating the orientation a DIN509 undercut is to be applied?
The bit of standard I have doesnt say so (although I only have 1 page of it and it's in German). For those not sure, DIN509 undercuts are not symetrical about the bisection of the corner.
As much as I trust...
