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    Revision Control

    The answers are (of course) correct, however reality has a way of creeping in.... We design vehicles with ~30k individual components, and assembly levels up to 50 deep. If we followed this rule to the letter, we would be revising the top-most numbers several times a day. With the high cost of...
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    Online Resource: Google Book Search

    They don't necessarily have all of the text, but allow you to find books that meet your needs, and ways to locate copies (purchase/library). For example, the first book has the Table of Contents and the Index, but not the chapters themselves. Great tool!
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    JT file from Pro/E

    UGS sells a JT translator for ProE2001. PTC is a member of the JTOpen group, although it remains to be seen whether they will actually work toward better compatibility. Currently, ProE does not read JT files (even wildfire 2). Teamcenter can be used to manage both ProE and NX togehter, and...
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    UG 13 to UG NX3

    Not sure what the ethics behind it are (or even if the documentation requires a license), but CAST is just a bunch of web pages in a folder on your drive. If you want to review at home, I would copy the folder and read through the documentation at home. It's not like you are taking a copy of...
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    about EDS Vis VSA

    Generally, people look to these tools when "doing it in your head" becomes un-manageable. GM's biggest use is for engines. Making sure the sucker will bolt together when the tolerances from hundreds of parts interact with a Friday afternoon on the assembly line.
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    about EDS Vis VSA

    UGS Info: http://www.ugs.com/products/teamcenter/docs/fs_visualization_vsa.pdf My version: VSA is an add-on to VisMockup (you need to buy both). With it you can analyse stack-ups and variation of 3D models (converted to jt format, from any CAD tool). You add details of the variation to the...
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    PTC's use of JT format?

    Can anyone comment on PTC's use of JT files? There are some (not a lot of..) comments on their web site that they support the JT format, and PTC is a member of the JTOpen group. Specifically, can Wildfire open JT parts? Can Wildfire work with assemblies based on mixed components? We are a...
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    Power required by locomotive (tractive effort etc.)

    Be sure to include "Davis Equation", or "Davis Formula" in your Google search....
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    CAD Collaboration tool

    tools From UGS; There is a free JT viewer: www.jt2go.com The Vis suite starts at ~$500USD for a light user, and climbs to ~7500USD for full VisMockup, with many steps in between.
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    UG ON SHAKY GROUND?

    The magic is in Teamcenter (Engineering). We have been using UG for ~7 years, with TcEng/iMan for control. Our assemblies are around 30k parts (~10k unique). This is more than a CAD workstation can load, we can probably get ~1/4 of a complete assemlby loaded. UGS has developed techniques...
  11. needahandle

    File renaming

    You may want to check out Cloning the assembly, you have the option of briging along the associted files. You can use the Dry Run and Log to rename components how you want, or you can choose the 'assign new numbers' option.
  12. needahandle

    Animation help?

    View > Visualization > Create Animation.... Good articles in GTAC, Q1 & Q2 2002.
  13. needahandle

    Involute Form in Sketch

    The following link should take you to an explanation of how to do it in a different modeling product. You can probably just cruise by the step-by-step, but understand how they are using the math to build the profile, then translate to sketcher...
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    Toolbars not being saved on exit. UG NX

    Ashcombeh, Aren't you using v18.0.4.2 on a Win2k machine? These folks are having a problem with NX2 on an XP. I suspect there may be some differences.
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    Importing dxf files

    In v18+ you have to Edit>Settings and select mm.
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