SolidAir,
Thank you for the response. The design table is one time use, once they enter the variables the model is done and ready to be saved and drawn. I'm not sure I get your meaning, however. Are you saying there is a way to start with the user opening an Excel workbook, entering the...
Morning all,
I have created several part templates for common parts that we create here in our office. They utilize Design Tables that I've customized to have drop downs and a only a couple of variables, and then the rest of the model features are calculated based on the variables they enter...
Solidworks has some built in tutorials that will help you get the basics down for most things. Located in Solidworks under "Help > Solidworks Tutorials"
-E
M.E.
I never used it for super in-depth calculations, but I did write a 17 page calculated analysis in the format of a report that I could send a customer in MathCad. It turned what used to be a couple hours worth of calculations and equations into about 20 parameters in a hidden block that would...
Dimensions in SW are not "smart", per se. They will update in a view if you change a part slightly, but center marks and such will not. Mirroring the part is too drastic a change for SW to know to update the drawing accordingly. You're not moving the dimensions, you are relocating them...
I took a few minutes to run through this in the fashion I eluded to above.
1) I made a quick assembly consisting of two tubing connections, mated where I wanted them to be for this example (5 inches apart vertically and horizontally, but sharing a center plane). See Image ASSY1.
2) Select...
You can create/edit parts in an assembly environment. It's how I build most of my tooling assemblies because it ensures that your mating components have matching lines, etc. In this case, you could make a new component within the assembly, and then edit it just as if you were in the new part...
Yeah, seems like a standard linear pattern. Although you won't have physical mates at each point, they should be locked in place by the pattern parameters.
EDIT: See attached. Done using simple linear component pattern.
E. Morel
M.E.
Upon further tinkering: I don't think the BOM configuration properties will do what you want them to do either. It doesn't combine parts from different configurations, only the one being shown on the BOM. You can show BOTH configurations on the BOM and that will show that there is 1 part on each...
Jeff,
From the image he posted, it looks as if the part is modeled as bent, with a small angle at the end of it also. This would make it so that he can't simply flip the part over on the other side, the angle would be upside down relative to the mating part. In reality, he's going to use the...
You need to assign a datum to one of the edges parallel to your x or y axes. That will give you a set orientation to measure an angle from. I think.
E. Morel
M.E.
PE2012,
I was in a very similar spot less than a year ago. I worked my way through school at one company and wound up as the supervising engineer there. I was so proud of the job, so proud of my work there and the company, that I was blinded by it. I wouldnt, COULDN'T look elsewhere, no matter...
Came up in an audit? What kind of audit? A vendor audit? I've never been through an audit where CAD models come up as a quality control topic. Personally, I won't leave a sketch undefined or under defined before creating a 3D feature, and everyone I know that models is the same way. The quality...
Oh, it sounded in your initial post that you were looking for a standard to cite with the intention of not allowing the two to come in contact.
Given the information in your second post, no there is not one specific rule that states you can't have CS and SS in contact. I've seen plenty of SS...
Yes, it's a graphics thing. I just drew a circle and created a line with a coincidental point on it, and if I zoom in far enough it shows the line extended outside of the circle.
E. Morel
M.E.
