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  1. emorrison

    Question about selecting Stock/Blank Size in part design

    Stock sizes are covered under various standards... if they are suitable, without machining, then tolerance them as such or simply label them as STK, etc.. If they are not, then you should refine the dimension and form such that the surface is machined to specification. Short answer... yes, if...
  2. emorrison

    Things they forgot to mention in the interview

    Worked for the same company right out of college for almost 10 years. Small company with lots of learning/growth opportunity and once that stopped I moved on to something new. Half a dozen small companies later and a couple of large Fortune 500 companies, which btw were the worst places I've...
  3. emorrison

    curved monitor

    Currently using the Dell 38" Ultrawide and very happy with it. The ability to select preset tiling arrangements is a plus for dedicated document real estate. Tiles can be customized as well. If you go that route, make sure you have the GPU to drive it. The other option I considered was the use...
  4. emorrison

    What do you call this leveling device

    Perhaps 'Jack' would more appropriate.
  5. emorrison

    Tolerance of assembly components logic

    Sorry, I'm having a difficult time picturing this. Any way you could upload a general sketch?
  6. emorrison

    Create Surface - Thicken and then convert to sheetmetal

    Have you tried using WAVE Geometry Linker to select the face(s) from the other part?
  7. emorrison

    Create a Mirror Part

    1. Open the part, in Assembly Navigator be sure that WAVE Mode is selected 2. R-click the part, WAVE, Create Linked Mirror Part 3. Name the part, choose Objects to Mirror, select Mirror Plane, Non-exact Mirror - Keep Broken Links 4. Modify mirrored part and save 5. Create New Parent (if not...
  8. emorrison

    tired of bad drawings

    If your supervisor doesn't see the issue, then take this advice as you see fit but.... you're jousting with a windmill. I've had great luck moving smaller companies into better practices WHEN management was on board. Larger companies on the other hand pose a whole different challenge, even...
  9. emorrison

    Living Hinge Design

    Good point, disassembly is certainly important in some designs! I'll add this SLS design guide from 3D Systems, which one might find useful. Covers a couple of hinge designs as well. http://www.3dsystems.com/company/datafiles/SLS_Guide.pdf
  10. emorrison

    17 Tips for Designing Cost Effective Machined Parts

    Like many engineers, I'm always looking to design-out potential problem areas. Getting back to corner radii in 'fit' type pockets, I prefer the relieved corner approach to trying to control min/max radii. (see attached) If you design (if feasible) the corner such that even a non-radius 'male'...
  11. emorrison

    17 Tips for Designing Cost Effective Machined Parts

    "8. Avoid designing parts that have corners the same size as a typical end mill diameter. Adding .20 or .30 to any corner with a standard diameter will lessen the surface area coming into contact with the part." As an engineer who spent most of his former life in my father's mold shop making...
  12. emorrison

    HOW IS THIS PART MADE

    "If the pin is 2mm in dia, why do you need a lifting eye, and where do you get one that small?" [link]http://cdn.mbeans2.com/images/items/full/bruder/BRUDER-man-crane-truck-02754-f.jpg[/url]
  13. emorrison

    Living Hinge Design

    Coming from 20+ years of PIM part design... I haven't had much luck with living hinges in SLS applications, at least not any subjected to cyclic deformation. That's not to say that there aren't some materials out there that could prove successful or print consistently to optimum thickness. If...
  14. emorrison

    GD&T for Holes are in Angular face

    Design intent in relation to datum assignment seems a little off with this example but that aside, I don't see the purpose of datum D in light of C. Pick one or the other as tertiary. Call out the angle, make it basic. Assign D to this callout/surface. Profile of surface on "D" tied back to...
  15. emorrison

    How is the Format for Hole Callout controlled in NX9? Need to get it to work with ASME standards.

    Yes. I believe "hole callout" is a replacement for "feature parameters" in NX9 & up.
  16. emorrison

    Drafting: FCF layout on holes & c'bores with common datum references

    Referring to example ASME Y14.5-2009 7.4.2, where (brief summary) a shoulder screw hole/counterbore might be split into two FCFs; one for the thru diameter and another for the counterbore. What is the best practice for achieving this in NX where FCFs are associative? Is the 2-dimension method...
  17. emorrison

    Work arounds: No UGII access environment, no way to store templates, etc

    Thomas, Again, much thanks for your help. The 'User Tools' fly-out is probably something one of our admins built. It's shown in the attached .jpeg and I'll assume this is what everyone at the corporate office uses since Start>Drafting from the model environment only gets me a "No valid sheet...
  18. emorrison

    Work arounds: No UGII access environment, no way to store templates, etc

    Thanks Thomas, It appears the same company that manages NX/Teamcenter for us also locks out access to system variables. So, I'm back to asking nicely to have our templates added and likely being told, yet again, that I'm asking them to 'break the system'. BTW, this division of the company is...
  19. emorrison

    Work arounds: No UGII access environment, no way to store templates, etc

    Good day gents, I've recently started work with a company that not only doesn't have a local UG installation, but where all IT is handled through an outside company. UG templates, utilities, anything within the UGii folder, is off limits. I've also found that any request to add templates and...

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