Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by Mike M

  1. Mike M

    A course to teach drafting to engineers who can do CAD

    I like what Kneat said. The advantage of starting with pencil drafting is visualization. My community-college introduction to CAD not many years ago emphasized this. CAD gives you the views for free, but the pencil doesn't. Some exercise to challenge and encourage orthographic visualization...
  2. Mike M

    Does a pocket require a broken-out section?

    Thanks MadMango and JNieman. Yes, I have a plan view of an irregularly-shaped flat-bottomed pocket without draft. Wondering about creating a broken-out section around the feature (i.e. using a spline and showing hatch lines). Somewhere in the back of my mind I feel that I shouldn't dimension...
  3. Mike M

    Does a pocket require a broken-out section?

    When dimensioning visible lines of a pocket, should I create a broken-out section around the feature?
See more

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top