Recent content by spider80

Hello all, I was wondering if any of the unfortunates people who have upgraded to SW2006 SP3 have had issues with the pdf creation. I recently upgraded from SP0 to SP3, I noticed that certain drawings when saved as pdf (with section areas hatched) creates the hatch marks all over the page. As...

I wish I could rob768. Believe me am a mm guy.

I was referring to MH (Machinery's Handbook). I would just like to verify the numbers with the ANSI standards or calculations.

Thanks Nick. I just got in touch with these guys, most of their engg's are out, so I wld have to wait till Mon. Will let you know if something good turns out... Thanks again...

To rephrase my question, how can I calculate minor dia of internal thread? I was referring to MH and couldnt work out numbers based on the thread profile dwg (on pg 1793). I need to cut 2B thd of dia 11.625. What I calculated was for a UN, height of a thread is basically 5/8 times its sharp...

Follow up: I ended up modifying my design for the other reasons and the shim became a lot thicker at about .050", however the dia, are the same and there is an angle on it. I couldnt get a lot of guys to quote for this, the only one who did was using philrocks suggestion, of machining it between...

Is it right to say : minimum dia of the internal thd. = (major dia. of internal thd.) -(5/8 *pitch * cos30) for an UNC or UNS thd? Thanks

Hi griffengm thanks for the tip. I will call them. So far the people I have called cannot handle thicknesses less than a 22 or 24 gauges (ranging around .020-.032" thick) due to fixturing and other issues. I have been asked to try etching and water jet machining. So far it looks like an etching...

Thanks for your suggestions. I will try it out and get back to you ....

I need to make a sheet metal ring thickness ranging between .002" and .007" with OD of 11" and ID of 10.50". I cant seem to find any distributors who has shims with OD greater than 6 or 7". I am in a time crunch that I cannot contact a precision stamping company. If I buy blank shim sheet and...

I have to place a fillet (curved end of an object), say curve A tangent to another curve, say curve B. One constraint I have is the location of curve A is fixed from the horizontal plane. Curve B is fixed in all respects (x,y,z). So if I want to place curve A tangential to B at a particular...

Corblimey, that was too obvious, pretty silly of me though to miss it. I guess I kept going down the tree before looking carefully at detailing. Thanks.

I am not able to modify the options of extension line lengths, offset of extension line from the feature etc. Solidworks seems to have fixed this. I recently upgraded to 2006, I havent seen these options in any SW though. Very rarely I have the necessity to use a particular size sheet and...

Hi all, Am looking for some good place to learn sheet metal design. I did not give much notice to this unless I noticed lots of companies demanding experience in sheet metal (not just design engg) I am curious to know what it involves. Any pointers, websites elaborating designs reqts or your...

ooops !. My mistake.