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    Low Flow Anemometer

    I am looking for a hot wire anemometer to measure air speed. The speed range required goes down to 20 feet/minute (0.25 foot/s, 0.076 m/s). I am having trouble finding a meter that is calibrated down to this flow speed. Any suggestions for meters that can accurately measure air speed in this...
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    Engineering Outsourcing/Workshare Concerns?

    People who think that they are immune to this are simply naive. As manufacturing continues to move to the far east, not only design but also other engineering roles such as production engineering, quality and reliability go too. However, we are seeing an increasing number of support jobs go as...
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    Where have all the engineers gone??

    I don't equate management skills with engineering skills, but I do equate management roles with increased pay, status and perks. In many industries, middle management roles are better paying than the vast majority of even senior engineering roles. Part of the answer to the question "where...
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    Where have all the engineers gone??

    Another issue with the engineering world is that the career progression path in many companies is simply not there. In many cases the people who make it into engineering management get there because they don't make good engineers. In my experience, good engineers remain engineers while...
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    Create Fluid Body From Assembly

    I would take a closer look at your CFD software. In most cases, the software will automatically create a part to represent all internal geometry. This means that you may not need to manually create the internal part, but could instead just add caps over all holes to create a watertight...
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    Automatically change dimension to set a parts mass?

    A sensor will allow you to modify the driving dimensions and will alert you when you reach the critical value.
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    CSWP Exam - Discussion continued

    The current CSWP test is a watered down version of what it used to be. Breaking up the test into sections as well as significantly reducing the price has resulted in a huge increase in the number of CSWPs, which was the corporate goal. While I think it is still a good thing to have, I think...
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    Propagate Cut to Parts

    I believe the correct term is "update holders".
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    Extracting custom properties from solidworks files

    The file you are referring to is Dsofile.dll. More details are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224351
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    Append Alternate Rrow To Previous Row

    Thanks Yakpol, this is what I was looking for. The challenge here was coming up with a process that can be carried out by people who do not use Excel regularly. I think this solution has a better chance of being remembered than using the conditional formatting approach and may be easier for...
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    Append Alternate Rrow To Previous Row

    Thanks for the replies. The macro solution is not an option in this case because the code would have to "live" somewhere. It can't go in the xlstart folder because the people who will be required to do this data processing do not work on dedicated machines - they move around amongst shared...
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    Append Alternate Rrow To Previous Row

    I am importing data into an Excel table and need to rearrange the data. The problem is that the information for one person is brought into Excel on two separate rows, like this: Last Name, First Name, ID Number Blood Type, Height, Weight I want to reorganize this data so that all the info for...
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    Attaching macro to a part

    Use a macro feature. These are documented in the API help. You can also check out the following example: http://www.solidworks.com/downloads/api/downloads/00000/0200s/0227/multi-body_parts_macro_features.zip
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    SW08 Desktop Engineering review

    More reviews can be found at http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/solidworks/reviews.htm
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    Using MS Access as a front end for SW

    No problem. You can open a file, add or edit properties and save as a new file. Here is an example for your Access guru. Remind him/her to enable the SolidWorks type libraries in the Access VBA references. This example opens a part file, adds a description custom property and saves as a new...
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