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The vibration environment hasn't been specified, and we are essentially the customer for our own manufacturing line. If there is to be an environmental specification, we'll be the ones writing it for our own products. The market I'm in isn't heavily regulated. I don't want to take that as a sign...

I do have some kind of vibratory feeder hardware here that could be modified easily to hold a circuitboard. Even so, some manner of IPC/ASME/EIA spec would go a long way. Even if I show a failure on a shaker table, because it's a small in-house test and not an exact replica of the vibration seen...

On a lot of electronic assemblies, I see silicone, or even hot glue sometimes, used to secure large components against motion or vibration. I know that solder is weak structurally. Some assemblies have silicone on darn near everything that has more than several millimeters of height. I've seen...

I'm trying to get rid of the hotlink protection on my website so that the image attachment can be displayed. I also can't help but notice that there isn't an Edit function here. Huh. I've got eng-tips.com added as a permitted domain, but it still isn't doing the job. Maybe an embedded image...

I'm working on a vertical chain-driven conveyor system. It is to have several trays attached to the chain, which will move components past a paint sprayer system. The machine is meant to permit an operator to place the components onto the trays, push a button, and come back in 45-60 minutes to...

Hello all, Version: Pro-E WF4.0 What I'm after: Some way to add notes or comments in Sketcher, similar to how one would add comments in computer code to explain what a line or section should do. I do design of aluminum extrusions and sheet metal enclosures, and there are many features and...

....and as frequently happens, the answer was right there in front of me, to be found right after asking for help. [smile] The button next to the Open Model button, which looks suspiciously like the icon used to indicate "Add Component to Assembly" is in fact the "Specify external Copy geometry...

Hello all, I've been trying my luck with some manner of top-down design, using the Publish Geometry and Copy Geometry tools to share some references between models. A problem I've run into: Changing the coordinate system to which a Copy Geometry feature is bound. Is there any way to do it after...

SnTMan: Someone's got to design the hyper-intelligent FEA systems of the future, at least until they're smart enough to design their own successors. [smile]

The tolerances were in fact their limits. I will explicitly call out tolerances on critical dimensions, primarily if it's not symmetric: -0.002/+0.014, for example. Besides that, the extruder will produce their own drawing, call out the tolerances they are willing/able to hold, and give the...

Maybe some day in the future they'll get the flow properties of aluminum figured out, and it'll be possible to feed a profile to some FEA software that'll then try to build the die from that. "As it turned out it was out of limit but that did not matter to you, what would have happened if it...

A portion of my job is the design of aluminum extrusions as framing for small signs, typically 6063-T6. What I learned early on is that the process a diemaker or extruder uses to determine the extrudability of a die isn't at all a matter of FEA or stress calculations or anything like that -...

Fixed: Of all things, it looks like it was the vertical sync setting in the ATI drivers. I set that to "Off, unless application specifies," and now it looks like everything's working fine. I guess Pro/E has to recalculate and redraw the *entire* window when so much as a single pixel changes.

Some additional findings: IT came down to help out with this. Process Explorer was used to monitor the xtop.exe process. With OpenGL enabled, the CPU is barely affected when manipulating 3D objects, or when working on a drawing. However, the GPU is quite active, and is pegged at maximum usage...

I recently got a PC upgrade to an i7-960 CPU, 8GB RAM, Win7 64-bit, and an ATI FireGL V8650 2GB PCIe videocard. And I'm running Wildfire 4.0 M010, 32-bit. The 3d performance is fine; it can manipulate assemblies pretty smoothly, so it seems like the 32-bit Pro-E is working ok with the 64-bit OS...

Update on this: Apparently the hard part, at least as far as our programmer was concerned, was building the GUI to put in rectangles that were linked to specific G-code jobs, then be able to manipulate them, and also nest time automatically. The G-code part didn't take too long, by comparison...

Hm...it appears that this router does not support G68 or G69 commands. Though I'd imagine that swapping out x for y coordinates shouldn't be too terribly horrific of a programming challenge. Updates will arrive as the program progresses.

We have some manner of experience with "nesting" and a brute-force approach. Part of our business involves making LED signs with two overlaid messages, and it is of course important that none of the LEDs interfere with one another on the circuitboard. We've got a program that will try iterations...

Our resident programming guru is diving back into Visual Basic, so it looks like we're just going to buckle down and write our own application. He's going to strip down the individual G-code jobs to get the perimeter rectangles, then have a GUI so the operator can import the day's batch of...

The PCB software is limited in terms of its working area, and doing the nesting there requires manual rework to get the various features set up properly. - The switch from manual to automatic occurred as a result of a machine switch, from the old router to the new router. The new router is...