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Thanks Bud. Your answer represents what I've already seen in other companies, I was curious to see what others have done. Previously our company had either a drawing of the pump itself, or only represented the components with a square and the port labels. It worked fine for the guys assembling...

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum and fairly new to hydraulic engineering. I'm educated in fluid power mechanics from my engineering technology degree, but far from an expert. Our company has decided to switch to totally ISO symbols on all schematics and I wanted to get some advice and...

We can actually get a network version of either one for free so the cost to us is not a question. Our company is part of a larger corporation that has network liscences to just about any program we want. We haven't made the plunge at this point only because of time constraints and production...

drawoh, We are using AutoCAD 2D currently. My question was more general drafting in nature. We are considering the leap to 3D modeling and are considering either Solidworks, or UGS NX. Are there any other concerns about this subject within a given CAD program? Is there a CAD package that...

Here's the question, if I delete an item in a BOM that is no longer needed, can I re-use this number for a different part even if this new part is not a replacement for the deleted part? I think this creates confusion but a coleague disagrees. I have always heard that this is poor practice, but...

fcsuper, Are you saying that none of the drawings have BOMs? We order parts directly from the drawings so what ever is on the BOM goes into our purchasing system. This is the reason that we would call out parts on all drawings with references, or "0" quantities on some drawings, and hard...

Our company is making a change and I was wondering what other companies have done and some pros and cons to each way of doing this. Currently we quantify parts on the schematic BOM and also call them out on the installation or sub assembly BOM but give them a quantity of "0". For example a pump...

The design change being made to the form of the part is removing combinations of plates, and channels, welded together with cut gussets and complicated welded pieces and exchanging them with simpler formed sheet metal parts. Therefore it is essentially the same finished part, with simplified...

I considered making it a new part number, but that would require me to update the part number on every installation that uses this assembly. Since the fit and function aren't changing and the form change will not create any interference issues on the installations, I opted against it. Our part...

My question is similar to an earlier post - thread1103-185128. My situation is this, I am redesigning a part that is a welded assembly. It's form is changing slightly, but it's fit and function are not, therefore, I want to keep the same part number. However, several pieces are being added, and...

Iknow this sounds simplistic, but the number 1 thing that causes this at my company is someone changing a folder name in the path to your x-refed drawings. Sometimes it's hard to notice, like a space added or a hyphen added.

Thanks Norm, It works perfectly. I was misinterpreting what cummings54 had suggested. It works his way also, I just didn't apply it correctly. good job

Thanks all, but here are the results I'm getting. joerd, I don't understand VBA but what I did was open TOOLS, MACROS, VISUAL BASIC EDITOR and pasted your code in the window. I then typed =sheetname(A1) into a cell and it returned #NAME?. I really don't know anything about VBA so I'm sure I'm...

I use a spread sheet to track projects and invoices, I will have several projects in one spread sheet with several worksheets so that I can share similar values from a master worksheet "BUDGET REPORT" into the appropriate places in each project's worksheet. Currently I do this by using the...

Our company uses our AutoCAD drawings as images in our user manuals. We have a group of people who work on the manuals as a word document, but they are not drafters. What we do is export the drawing from AutoCAD into the .WMF format and insert that as a picture into the word document. Our...

Do you start your new drawings with a template, or from scratch? The way I've always managed my title blocks and borders is to have a border drawing made in model space that has all of the attributes defined as described in detail by limct above. Use this drawing as a "block" to be inserted...

I recently bought an HP 110 at home for small time work. It will print up to 24" wide with the optional roller feed. It only cost around 900.00 after. So far It's held up well. Before that I owned an HP 450 that worked great for 7 years, and at work I use the HP 500 that cost about 2500.00...

I realize I am looking at an older book, but I rely on my drafting book from college which is Engineering Design Graphics, seventh ed., by James H. Earle. It states on page 358 that the "Cylindrical Datum Feature" is the axis of a true cylinder. In other words, two of the three required planes...