Once files have gone out the the immediate engineering group (exact limits may vary a bit) I would say option 1 is superior.
Certainly once drawings start going out of the organization I'd be vary careful making a change and not having an explicit revision change. My employer has got pretty...
Generalizations are usually a bit silly but most of us make them, for instance my issues with Industrial Designers (thread731-254646 being just one example) have led me to have a healthy skepticism of them.
For another generalization, I've rarely in my career for the last 10 years encountered...
CWB1 your experience of modern corporate America does not match mine.
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The guilt was at straying off topic, my story is 100% accurate I swear[bigsmile].
Yeah you got my implicit point on how engineering behaves in different sectors/business structures etc. - it's something posters should remember in this type of soft forum - I'm definitely not saying people from...
Youniccon well that's a nice update - good to hear it.
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In my experience 'money being tight' had little to do with the engineering workload - joys of being in the manufacturing field I suppose. We could be crazy busy working on multiple...
Please warn us when you're going to make cracks like that phamENG, I nearly shot hot tea all over my laptop. That scenario is as unrealistic from my Engineering experience as the villains in an Ayn Rand novel. The idea of not having enough work to fill 40 hours (or 37 back in Blighty) is hard...
CWB1 - disagree that what you say is universally true. I'll do a much better job of drafting print to ASME or what have you stds than most draftsmen & designers I've worked with.
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"Aren't going to see too many PhD's being CAD jockeys. "
You clearly didn't work at my (recently) former employer in the nanotechnology field.
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Re hairdressers, are you all forgetting the nasty chemicals used in processes like hair straightening, bleaching and dying? Then there's the toxic fumes from Brazilian blow outs and the like.
So yes cvg people have been quite seriously injured by bad hair cuts and the like.
Some hair...
Maybe look at spring center punches?
Though on second thoughts I'm not sure that's quite right.
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Different features have different drivers in different applications.
Sometimes stress concentration as drawoh mentions, sometimes manufacturability, sometimes aesthetics...
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IJustLikeScience - there was some history with the poster in that other thread and some of the responses were fine tuned to that history. Hopefully much of that wouldn't apply to you so I would take anything from that thread with a big pinch of salt.
That said, kudos for using the search...
I'm with Greg on this one, but then again we both went to 'trade schools' and got our bachelors in 3 years (though his school have a far more famous rowing team than mine).
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Are you willing to re-locate? Seem to be a lot of job openings in Antelope Valley CA and even at China Lake north of there that you might want to look at. Take a look at second tear contractors and civilian Dod/Navy/AF/Army... job. Assume you've checked out USA Jobs website - for a vet it's a...
Historically I've been my own draftsman like btrue, and frankly despite as many mistakes and errors as I've made I'm as good or better a designer/draftsman/CAD Jockey as just about any I've ever worked with.
I'm a pretty lousy Engineer though but hey, can't have everything.
I've tried...
Not sure I understand your hang up, not up to speed on 2009 version but with 95 version my first thought is composite profile if I understand your requirement.
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The issue of coercing students into STEM - especially Engineering - just because they do well in math and science at high school or lower division college is real, and something I've brought up before. My wife was hounded by her algebra prof to join the engineering program when she was at...
At former employer our concession to the issue of printing larger drawings on smaller paper was that we set most font sizes to be .15" (~4mm) instead of .12" (~3mm). This meant when E was printed on B they were just about legible. The drawing title & number etc. in the title block were already...
I have deliberately added features to otherwise nominally symetrical parts in order to orient the datums etc. Classic is on a square or rectangular part or similar I might add a chamfer on one edge to aid orientation. Doesn't directly address your question but pointing out that I generally...
You have specified the hole to be centered on the rectangular part in an acceptable way to Y14.5 as Drawoh says.
The other way to get similar result as Drawoh alludes is to make the center hole the datum and center the rectangular outside profile on it - doesn't have to be surface profile it...
