Good afternoon. I am a program manager at a contract manufacturer and I am putting a project together to acquire a 2nd 3D printer for our facility. I currently have a Markforged X7 and it performs great for our uses. We are mostly using it for form fixtures to check hole positions, form...
All of our materials for this application would come in as sheet and we'd laser cut.
Yes, our customer designed the part. I'd like to propose a new material to them without them doing too much up front work as they have limited staffing. However, if I propose something that makes sense, it'll...
Good afternoon,
I have a customer part and would like to propose a switch due to material availability in my area. See below my options avialable.
Customer asked for .177-A656-Grade 50
Option 1: .1875-ASTM-A572-Grade 50
Option 2: .179-A715 Min grade is 50
The part is holding a heavy load...
SOLVED: FIGURED OUT THAT THE DRAFTING STANDARDS WERE SET DIFFERENTLY. APPARENTLY IN ISO, THE JUSTIFY BUTTONS HAVE NO EFFECT. NOR DO THEY AFFECT THE VERTICAL TEXT POSITION IN ANSI EITHER.
Brandon LaSota
CAD Engineer
Modineer
www.Modineer.com
Having a text justify issue. On my PC, my dimensions show up just fine, centered and all. Centered left to right and vertically. However, my justify buttons have no effect on the dimensions.
On my co-workers pc, their dimension justifies down, and the buttons also don't change anything. I can't...
Thank you so far everyone!
@3DDave: I have found some, but I need to go beyond lettering. I need to put a custom symbol on there. I can likely make a custom tool for the holder though.
@TugboatEng: I'll probably end up making a custom version of these stamps per 10 digit part number. I need to...
Looking to see if anyone has ever used a press brake and produced custom tools with a stamping die to place part numbers or emblems on a part? I'd like to stamp a 10 digit part number into thin sheet steel utilizing a 50, 120, or 300 ton press brake. I have a stamper made for this and stamping...
SirPhobos,
The part was designed in space. So there is no way to orientate the part squared up due to the geometry of the part and just a face and normal to. However, someone above did say by selecting 2 faces then normal to, you have more control over the parts orientation. This solved my view...
drawoh,
That's not a bad idea, but a lot of steps. It seems as the planes in SW match up with the default coordinate system. I was trying to find a way to define new planes based on a new coordinate system that wouldn't affect messing up all my current drawings and views. But, what you provided...
Good morning,
I'm working with a design done by someone else, who designed the complex part in place(not on the standard coordinate plane). I have entered a custom coordinate plane and would like to generate a top, right, and front view plane based on the x,y,z of the new coordinate system. This...
Good morning. I am a mechanical engineer and program manager. I recently was nominated to test drive the new Microsoft Surface Studio for my job and to provide a report on if it is worth the upgrade from our current Dell's or not. I'll be putting it through my normal routine which involves...
I recently purchased an X7 from Markforged. I have a couple questions:
- What parameters are you using for 3D printing text onto your part? What font and size work best when designing in SOlidworks?
- Any special parameters when you setup the print? Specific layer height?
- How do you infill...
3 Parter today.
I have a few plant layout drawings that I'd like to clean up data wise. While generating a blank layout for some co-workers, I deleted almost everything out of the file and still found it to be +50MB in size. So where is the data at that is taking up so much space? Is there a...
@TheTick, I'm not hung on created by SW, we're just hoping to standardize our softwares as much as possible. We've picked SW as our parent software and we currently own bending softwares, nesting, Catia, Inventor, NX, ect. We're cutting all that out and trying to stick with as least amount of...
We do a lot of work with stamping at my business and are currently using a stand alone 3rd party software to simulate flattening, generating tooling, etc. The complexity of stamped products, especially files given to us from customers generated in a different software, requires us to have this...
I've been given 4 plant layouts and am tasked with merging them all together. I noticed that the 4 layouts have been scaled differently and drawn with different softwares. I would like to setup my units as Inches in my main drawing, and then manually scale each plant to be in the same units as...
I need to import a PDF and convert to a DWG or DXF in Draftsight 2020. I saw a video online of someone doing this with Draftsight where the video was uploaded in 2019, but I do not have the same options as what I saw in that video. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!
Brandon LaSota
CAD Engineer...
I'm in a new business that manufactures lots of parts with Press Brakes. In my previous career, we prototyped a lot of functional parts with 3D printers, but in my new business, we're looking at the possibility of 3D printing the tooling for usage in a brake press. We're looking at capabilities...
@SBaugh, I should have been more clear with my post.
Problem 1: This box wouldn't even pop up. I would click spacebar and the view orientation cube around my part would show up just fine. However, the Orientation dialogue box would not. It wasn't hidden behind any windows, off screen, or...
UPDATE: Problem 1 has been solved. Not sure it was the correct way, but I did a registry edit and started fresh. This did not fix the flat pattern issues though.
Brandon LaSota
CAD Engineer
Modineer
www.Modineer.com
