I think the problem is that we are dealing with buyers or middlemen instead of engineers. This part was a casting, I suspect is unavailable or too pricey for the quantity needed, and which probably does not need draft angles... but the response to that question was in the form of a "machining"...
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In this instance the customer has also provided a model.
The instruction for this job/ customer is "build to print" and a note on the drawing states "machined as shown".
- Pictorially, the radii appear to be cylindrical
- The model provided has cylindrical radii
- The...
If a drawing note specifies a profile feature to have a draft angle "all around", shouldn't any radius on the profile also have a draft angle, essentially making it conical rather than cylindrical?