While I think you are closest to understanding what I'm looking for, compositepro, you actually have it backwards from my intent. If I wasn't curious and looking to better my inherent "feel" for materials, I would never have even made a post to begin with. I want the engineering equivalent of...
I will be graduating in May with a degree in Mechanical Engineering (and a minor in English, how many of those do you see? lol) and plan to move to the Manhattan borough of New York City within a short time of graduating (and by short I mean within a month).
By the time I graduate, I will...
no, I think you both are misunderstanding what I'm talking about.
First of all, I'm not designing anything remotely that simple. I've already designed a handful of oilfield drilling and abandonment tools working in my intern/jr. engineer position under a PE. While my core designs were great...
Does anyone know of a site that either has videos or photos with practical failure tests of various steel and aluminum structural members? By practical I mean, say, a 5 foot long piece of 2" steel square tubing suspended between two columns and then have weight added until it buckles?
The...
oh, well he primarily uses Solidworks, he just uses AutoCAD when he needs to redraw prints or something real quick for whatever reason because he's faster with AutoCAD. 95% of his work (or more) is Solidworks.
Well, I think I should make it clear that I work for a small company of 9 people: 4 engineers/draftsmen and 4 shop workers (final assembly and some welding is handled on site)and the owner's wife handling finances. The only server might as well be called the engineering server as his wife only...
we're on 32-bit XP
My graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI, but I have an older computer, my boss and the draftsman have slightly newer and I'm sure higher spec'd graphics cards and I know for a fact they have Xeon processors.
How do I enable the 3GB switch? is it a hardware or...
hmmmm...
So, if I'm understanding correctly, our current 2.XX Ghz Dual Core processors with 4GB of RAM is more than Solidworks can really take advantage of at the moment? We do handle FEA projects on occasion, but at least 90% of our work is standard drafting/modeling and working out the...
I recently was made aware that many applications (at least as far as XP is concerned) don't always fully utilize multiple-core processors as well as RAM over a certain amount. Therefore, my boss is considering upgrading to Windows 7 since it seems it more fully utilizes top-of-the-line...
