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I am developing a small micro lens part. The shot size is .15 gr. PEI and my smallest available injection machine is 14T 18mm 20gr (PS) screw. Because the part has very fine features it is necessary to raise melt temps toward upper range limits. This presents a less than ideal scenario where, I...

I have many sheetmetal models that were created with NX 5 and older. When we upgraded to NX 7.5 (.2.5) most sheetmetal features will not respond to changed parameters nor can I add new flange features. I know the SM tab feature replaced blocks and pads for SM but it seems that we should be able...

You've all been very helpful. Thanks very much for your help and advice.

Thanks for all the inputs. I have attached a little sketch. I believe I understand Belanger's reply and it make sense to me. That is how I had concluded it should be. The basic 1.0 dimension is coming off the implied (and shown) center plane of datum A and is indicating the drawn centerline of...

I have a block whose width is datum A and I place a pad on top of the block aligned with the block but not centered on it. There is a slot through the pad. If I want to position the slot true position to datum A, what would be the correct notation to specify this. Thanks for your help and...

One thing I should have pointed out originally, this part is a 10 position widget and with only 10 position the cumulative tolerence will not cause assembly failure. However, this is slated to be a family product where there will be as many as 96 positions. At some point the tolerance stack will...

I’m looking for opinion or experienced guidance on methods used to preserve design intent when tooling is built and results in parts that don’t meet intent but are “good enough” to make the decision to spend $$$ and time should wait until tool rebuild at end of tool life (possibly). If prints...

I am looking into some add-ins for SE v11. I have some examples (in VB) and would like to expand on them. They reference 2 type libs , se.tlb and se2.tlb. These are controls and objects I believe I need. Are they available to the general public anywhere or do you need to buy them? I have...