Here at my company we always save the drawing as a .TIF file and place it in a folder on the server so non-solidworks users can view and print drawings. If you do it, remember to click options and pick packbits compression and set the DPI to 600. This will give you the best results. Also, we...
I personally recommend the "CommonNotes" Macro that can be found at: http://webpages.charter.net/mkikstra/SolidWorks.html
It works excellently and I use it all the time.
Matt Lombard offers some macros for additional views on his web site, http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/ I've not used them so I do not know if they are what you are looking for. Hope it helps.
Yes, there are some, but very few. TurboCAD is one. The windows emulator that a MAC offers will probably allow you to run AutoCAD, but I doubt it would run high-end software such as SolidWorks or Pro/E. You should check out www.architosh.com and see what advice they have to offer.
I do not have a patent related to tires, but a good patent search is going to cost you about $10,000, and a full patent, depending on the type, about $30,000. You can, however, do some of you own searching for patents on the internet to see if anyone has patented a similar idea. If it a good...
Here is what the standard says:
From: ASME Y14.3M-1994 MULTIVIEW & SECTIONAL VIEW DRAWINGS
"Half Sections -- The view of a symmetrical object or one very nearly symmetrical which represents both the interior and exterior features by showing one half in section and the other half as an external...
If you have a 1/4" bolt with 20 threads per inch it would be 1/4-20 UNC-2B (Internal) and 1/4-20 UNC-2A (External). That is if, in fact, you have a unified screw thread. That being said, the American Standard for unified screw threads does not have any multiple start threads in it. Multiple...
