In today's environment, I would say utilize the Master Model approach and separate the drawing from the model in their own files.
When I started with UG at UGII V3, (dating myself now) we did the drawings in the same file as the models. Back then, we were still drawing everything in wireframe...
EV trucks will work for local delivery but not long hauls.
Team Penske pulled into one race in CA last year with eCascadia Freightliners. what wasn't mentioned was that the trip from NC to CA was with the normal diesel trucks and they switch tractors for the local run to the racetrack...
One of the things I remember from my GD&T training was to think of the datums as setup planes for inspection. I realize that with CMM that is not so much a requirement anymore, but can you achieve the proper location and sizing requirements using the same datums for multiple holes?
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Not sure what GRIP is doing or how it utilizes template seed parts.
GRIP is obsolete and unsupported for many years now.
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Does CATIA use FlexLM for its license management? If so, you can have IT set up an option file where you always get the license with the sheet metal option.
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Ben Loosli
If you are using SolidWorks for your designs, do you want to switch to Fusion for that task?
SolidWorks and MasterCAM use the Parasolid modeling kernel while Fusion uses an AutoDesk modified version of ASICS.
If your machinists or whomever does your CNC programming now, are familiar with...
If I remember correctly, in NX the ug_english or ug_metric definition files setup your working environment and provide the 'defaults' for a new part creation. The Create/Part command would then use these values for how to setup your file.
It has been 20 years since I played with GRIP and the...
It has been a while since I wrote any GRIP but I think you can create a new part by setting the default new part template in the configuration file and then the Create/Part command will use that.
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You can electronically sign PDFs with the right Adobe options. It requires us to enter our password for the system to apply the e-signature.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
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Get some training! It kills me how many companies hire new employees and do not invest in them with training on the company CAD tool. People switching jobs from one with CAD tool A to CAD tool B still need trained on CAD tool B. They are all just a bit different that an experienced instructor...
Might depend on the version of SolidWorks you have, too.
Is your current version compatible with Windows 10 and 11?
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This can probably be done with some programming in UGopen (or whatever has replaced GRIP).
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Can you modify the file yourself? Learning how to build family tables is an art to get all sizes to update successfully.
When we had Unigraphics at my old company, we contracted EDS (at the time they owned UG) to create about 20 family tables with a GRIP program interface. Once we had the...
I have travelled that pass too many times to count. Went to school in Idaho and used to go to Jackson Hole to ski on weekends.
Late fall 1972, I did a spin in my 1968 VW beetle on that road near the top of the pass where it is sheer cliff up one side and down on the other. Luckily, I stayed on...
One of our designers has done some drawings and he has done the dimension of the hole with tolerance pointing to one hole. To another hole in the same bolt circle arrangement, he has put the true position callout. In some cases they are opposite sides of the drawing view. While I don't think...
I have had it done different ways at different companies. Currently we just list the ECR in the revision block like this: REVISED PER ECR #####-##.
We have a few canned text lines that we use in the revision block.
Other companies have listed every change with a number for each change, like: C1...
Don't have an answer for utilizing GPM again, but I took a UGPost class in Cypress at V16 days, before PostBuilder was released. We were modifying theb TCL code directly to get the output we needed. Used GPM for many years before that, started UG2 at V3 and used it through V18/NX1.
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I agree with using REF on subsequent balloons to the same component in different views.
We use Creo software and when we use the quantity in a balloon, the software will not allow a second balloon without it being marked as REF or having the quantity of the original balloon decreased...
The nesting software we used for our laser machines had an option for common-edge cutting where it would cut adjacent parts to use a single cut between the parts to get 2 part edges.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
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