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No surface treatments. Cutting articular cartilage, cortical and cancellous bone. I'm still not convinced how often we are seeing dullness that was induced by direct cutting of the tissues, but that doesn't completely obviate the need to assess the sharpness if only to say that we do/can as...

CCW as illustrated in the picture, yes. Torque/load to cut may be an option if we can identify a suitable medium that doesn't in itself cause undue abrasion. Will have to kick that around. One thing I intentionally didn't mention since it's related but presently out-of-scope, is that the alloy...

Well, that's a tease--it shows up in the post preview before submitting. I tried it a little different way:

We have some custom stainless steel tools with hole saw type geometry where the cutting 'tips' are not of a standard geometry--it has a scalloped leading edge which creates two sharp 'peaks' at the innermost and outermost edges: These items are intended for limited re-use, but we would like...

Regulatory agencies/bodies that see "FDA recognized consensus standard" and stop asking additional questions? 😅

Thanks for the suggestion, although this might be harder to 'sell' since some may ask "is that [surgical] stainless steel?" -- if we can say "Yes, it meets chemical requirements of ASTM F899" then great, but...:confused:

All materials in this equation are nominally 316L; the form of the actual raw materials is not specified on the drawings, however, according to the material certs, the 'new' (non-magnetic) plate was made from 1.5" smooth turned cold-finished round bar; the 'new' mating post appears to be made...

So, we have some machined parts of somewhat dubious history where the drawings indicate the parts are 316L but due to the fact one of the components exhibited ferromagnetism and was not galling in a same-material pair, we suspected the material may actually be hardened 400 series (e.g. 416/420)...

This is amazing; before I go buy a bottle to experiment with, what is the visible reaction that I should expect in such a case? [thumbsup2]

I have done that as well, but not ideal. [sadeyes]

The reason is so people like me, when opening a drawing for the first time and having no idea of the revision history... are left to wonder if there is something important associated to that bubble with a letter in it. On an associated note: unless it has improved in the last few...

Nothing to add other than these pieces are almost certainly molded, possibly CFRP.

You're not wrong... [yinyang]

Since you are already relying on CAD model, just omit any 'points' along the path and force them to choose. If they ask which points they need to measure to know if the part is acceptable, then fire them. "Which dimensions are critical to meet specification? [ponder]" "All of them" [flame]

I lean towards the "useful" in the sense that it beats into the [idiot] reader's head that partial threads don't do me any good but you are fine to have as many as you'd like past where there are full threads. Generally, though, I find I'd care to use a note like that where I know the hole depth...

Thanks for the lead Scott, would not have thought to use the word 'nesting' to describe the activity.

This is less of a Solidworks question and more of a general solid modelling question. If you have a model with a known but irregularly shaped volume, are there any utilities that can create a best fit volume packing of another known shape? Preferably with some other constraints such as "always...

Now who is living in fantasy? [yinyang]

I thought it was indicating that it was acceptable to be machined in either full light or full dark. [ponder]

If you can call it 'programming' to do very basic SQL queries (I mean very basic) I use it frequently to bypass the actual front end GUIs of different software to get the data I care about that is replicated and stored in databases. You can save many many minutes this way. Examples: historic...