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    Saturation and Mechanical Force, conceptual

    Hey thanks for your responses.
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    Saturation and Mechanical Force, conceptual

    Been working on a solenoid actuator design and the simulation software is indicating that, as I increase amp-turns beyond what is reasonable, the force output of the piston keeps increasing. This is in contrast to what I expected. My understanding was that as the piston reaches magnetic...
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    Healing an import from IGES

    Sorry for the delay in responding. Here's a more specific description of the problem. The surfaces from the IGES file sew into a solid nicely, so I haven't needed to play with the tolerances yet. I'm trying to make a simple fixture for the part. So I'm creating a block that encloses the...
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    Healing an import from IGES

    I have an IGES file consisting of surfaces. After import, I sew those surfaces into a solid. Since the surfaces don't quite match up, problems develop later on. I want to manually/automatically edit those surfaces after import and before the sew but I can't find any way to do it. The...

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