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  1. reo682

    Compound Belt drive total torque

    Hi, I was just wondering, what would be total toque of compound belt drive - having 3 shafts. As shown in the attached screenshot, middle shaft drives one shaft on either side. would total torque needed by motor will be the sum of total toque of each shaft? Each shaft rotates at same RPM &...
  2. reo682

    DFM practice

    By the way I noticed DFMXpress add in for solidworks and also 3rd party add-in's such as DFMPro. I am not sure how effective these are. It looks like they just analyze some features and report issues. So far I didn't find any CAD tools that help with assembling part of DFM
  3. reo682

    DFM practice

    I am just interested to findout if there are any better tools available (add in tools for CAD programs - for both parts as well as assemblies) or other ERP systems. So far I have been using general optimization techniques for parts and assemblies and also some times used excel worksheet to...
  4. reo682

    ASME standard for dimensioning Section view & hidden lines

    Hello, I would like to request you to point me to ASME reference about following details. 1. Can we add dimensions to section views (I was told and followed that its better to show section view to clarify some detail( for example a hole..etc) than showing hidden line view. Its OK to...
  5. reo682

    origin precision for ordinate dimensioning

    Hello, When we use ordinate dimensioning in Autodesk inventor, it will create origin with two decimal precision (based on default dimension precision in the drawing template, which is 2 in my case) - (.00, .00) As far as I remember, solidworks used to create origin without any precision (0,0)...

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