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Hi, I've been wondering about this simplified problem - Say I have an airtight tank of some kind, connected to which is a compressor/impeller drawing in and compressing ambient air, to maintain a constant pressure in the tank, P_tank. Also connected to the tank is an open pipe allowing the flow...

Hi, I've watched a few videos and read some tutorials about how to make fibre glass parts and am thinking of buying a DIY fibreglass kit. However I'm unsure as to what you would do with a conical type mold in certain cases (the nose cone of a racing car for example). I could see there being a...

PedroCG: Thanks for the link and the info, theres definately some useful stuiff in there. However, I'm looking to build a smaller axial flow type engine, similar to the jetcat turbines. j79guy: Thanks also for the info, I'll definitely consider propane as a fuel, as opposed to kerosene, and...

Thanks to all for the wonderful replies, it's made things alot clearer for me. One possible scenario I thought about was that the injectors were used solely for atomization (Being either on or off, or constantly on), and didn't control the flow rate, so the only control for such a system must...

Thanks, so we have something like: Tank -> Valve -> Pump -> Valve -> High pressure fuel line -> Fuel injector? I'm interested in fuel systems for jet engines, where rather than a pulsed injection, the injection is continuous, and in particular I want to know how the system works for...

For fuel injection systems to work, the fuel must be under pressure, so that when the injection valve is released, fuel is pushed through it. How is the fuel from the tank kept under pressure?

Thanks for all the links, I'm looking through a few tutorials now

Hi, is there anywhere to download free solidworks interacive tutorials, like the ones pre-loaded into the program? I'm using Sw 2007, and have the pressure plate tuorial, but it seems thatn is the only one, so how/where can I download extra tutorials? In particular, I'm looking for one on...

Thanks, CorBlimeyLimey, convert entities is really useful, however it still doesn't solve my problem. The only way I can make the surface is by doing an extrusion with the cross-section first, and then selecting the edges as the patch boundary. But the problem is I don't want the extrusion...

Cheers, but I don't want to move into a new part, but instead select a group of entities from a sketch (namely those splines at the front), cut them from the current sketch, and paste them into a new sketch in the same original position, on the same part. I can cut and paste the entities, and...

Ben, thanks for taking the time to do that, but I can't open the file because it's a future version, I'm using SW2007, so yours must be 08/09? Anyway, I made a new part, similar to that, but made those splines as a sketch of their own, and it gave me what I wanted, using a filled surface, so I...

Thanks for the replies, here is a file I threw together, to explain my situation. So far I have only sketches, no surfaces or solid parts. You can see there are a few cross-sections down the length of the shape, where I've added sketch planes (but I've only sketched the first one). I've also...

CorBlimeyLimey: I'd rather not post the file if that's ok, it's kind of a private project. (I realise this would make things easier though) Jspisich: I don't understand the method you are describing, please can you elaborate? When I select filled surface, and try to choose either of my...

Well, I've created the relation now, but have a new problem... I can't create a filled surface with the three related curves. (Cross section is a closed curve).

Thanks, the two "rectangles" are side plans of an object, and I'm now trying to build some cross-sections too, giving me a 3D wireframe for the object, that I can use to make filled surfaces later. I managed to get the pierce relation working, but when I tried a filled surface, it lets me...

Hi, I have 3 intersecting sketch planes mutually perpendicular, and on two of them I have sketches already. On the third, I'm trying to make a new sketch (a cross section), which uses points from the other two sketches as a reference/relation. Consider two rectangles perpendicular to each...

Sorry to keep asking questions, but I want to know, when I have created a surface, or a set of surfaces/boundaries, then how can I make it into a solid? (i.e. 'fill' it), for example something like this: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/880/cosxcocyff2.jpg (image was quite big to post) Thanks

Thanks again. So with PI all I'm missing is the parentheses then. Got the shortcuts running, thanks for that. "Instead of using A*%T, use A*(%T-.5). I mentioned earlier in the thread that this yields a range of -A/2 to +A/2." Ok, thats simple enough. Any remedy for evaluating across something...

...entering z= (6*3.14159265)*%T worked, so I guess it must be a problem with pi.

Actually a couple more questions too: How can I set a lower bound for the function to be evaluated on? e.g. If I wanted a function evaluated between -5 and 5? How can I get a shortcut button for the macro? I inputted: X=0 Y= (6*PI)*%T Z=cos(%X)*cos(%Y) ...to evaluate z=cos(x)cos(y) on the...