We have a new assembly that was made from an existing assembly but has a few less parts, specifically early in the parts list. Now similar parts on the two drawings have different find numbers making it confusing for the person comparing them. He asked me if the new assembly's parts list can...
I'm using SW 2017. For some reason unknown to me when I open an assembly containing hardware from the SW vault (shows a little bolt as an icon in the feature manager tree) they show up way to large (for example, a 4-40 flat washer will have an OD of 1.75"). It doesn't happen on anyone else's cpu...
I recently had a vibration test done on a case. Inside was another sizeable component. The case had aluminum rails mounted inside (almost similar to a C channel) and the component had a rail on each side (a simple flat bar mounted to component). The component rail slides into the C channel very...
I suggested my coworker remove 'FULL' from a filleted edge radius callout. He asked why. Good question. I tried searching through ASME Y14.5 and couldn't find when to use the callout. I believe I've only ever seen it on a slot callout. But even then, I didn't see 'FULL' notated in the manual for...
Quick question. For detail views, according to ASME Y14.3, the detail circle should be in phantom font. However the example given in Figure 23 isn't clear on whether or not the outer edges of the view itself should be in phantom font. I also can't find any hard references on this in 14.2. Any...
