I don't think anyone can deny GD&T is not very intuitive, unlike the concept of +- dimensioning which anyone can understand. I have never been in a precision manufacturing environment but I have never seen GD&T used except for a flatness callout here and there
Fatigue is strongly affected by surface finish since most cracks will initiate on the surface and will often be the leading cause of the fatigue failure. I am not sure but I think it is just a safety factor kind of thing, it just decreases the allowable max value by a certain percentage. (i.e...
I agree, while English is wide-spread in Europe, it is in fact way less than one might think. If you match a job description perfectly you will get it. If you don't (and that's the vast majority of the time) if you don't speak the local language you won't get the job.
I was just here minding my own business and did a Google search and what appeared on top as the advertorial link?
Reminds me of Autodesk paying for advertising on taxi cabs at a Solidworks convention, or maybe it was the other way around?
AI and expert systems should have been much bigger today already! Wasn't there the biggest amount of buzz around expert systems in the late 80s? Why has this not seen more uptake by now?? I think people are just afraid of displacing their jobs, which is a fair thing to worry about I suppose. I...
It harkens back to something I've read a while ago on the INCOSE website an article from 1992 it was about how Systems Engineering techniques could apply to education. Briefly it was divided into four levels:
1. Schools develop some curriculum for you, little thought is given to its meaning or...
Foundation is a lie, your brain is plastic and learns all the time. You don't need to be taught the details of everything, learning works best when it is done just-in-time.
