Stock sizes are covered under various standards... if they are suitable, without machining, then tolerance them as such or simply label them as STK, etc.. If they are not, then you should refine the dimension and form such that the surface is machined to specification. Short answer... yes, if...
Worked for the same company right out of college for almost 10 years. Small company with lots of learning/growth opportunity and once that stopped I moved on to something new. Half a dozen small companies later and a couple of large Fortune 500 companies, which btw were the worst places I've...
Currently using the Dell 38" Ultrawide and very happy with it. The ability to select preset tiling arrangements is a plus for dedicated document real estate. Tiles can be customized as well. If you go that route, make sure you have the GPU to drive it. The other option I considered was the use...
1. Open the part, in Assembly Navigator be sure that WAVE Mode is selected
2. R-click the part, WAVE, Create Linked Mirror Part
3. Name the part, choose Objects to Mirror, select Mirror Plane, Non-exact Mirror - Keep Broken Links
4. Modify mirrored part and save
5. Create New Parent (if not...
If your supervisor doesn't see the issue, then take this advice as you see fit but.... you're jousting with a windmill.
I've had great luck moving smaller companies into better practices WHEN management was on board. Larger companies on the other hand pose a whole different challenge, even...
Good point, disassembly is certainly important in some designs!
I'll add this SLS design guide from 3D Systems, which one might find useful. Covers a couple of hinge designs as well.
http://www.3dsystems.com/company/datafiles/SLS_Guide.pdf
Like many engineers, I'm always looking to design-out potential problem areas. Getting back to corner radii in 'fit' type pockets, I prefer the relieved corner approach to trying to control min/max radii. (see attached)
If you design (if feasible) the corner such that even a non-radius 'male'...
"8. Avoid designing parts that have corners the same size as a typical end mill diameter. Adding .20 or .30 to any corner with a standard diameter will lessen the surface area coming into contact with the part."
As an engineer who spent most of his former life in my father's mold shop making...
"If the pin is 2mm in dia, why do you need a lifting eye, and where do you get one that small?"
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Coming from 20+ years of PIM part design... I haven't had much luck with living hinges in SLS applications, at least not any subjected to cyclic deformation. That's not to say that there aren't some materials out there that could prove successful or print consistently to optimum thickness. If...
Design intent in relation to datum assignment seems a little off with this example but that aside, I don't see the purpose of datum D in light of C. Pick one or the other as tertiary.
Call out the angle, make it basic. Assign D to this callout/surface. Profile of surface on "D" tied back to...
