Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations MintJulep on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. Sirius

    aircraft power supply 400 Hz and beyond?

    Dear All, up to now the simple picture I had about power supply was: 60 Hz /115 V is used in the USA for instance 50 Hz / 230 V is used in Europe for instance and 400 Hz / 115 V is used in aircrafts for various reasons which are already discussed in this forum. Now recently I learned about...
  2. Sirius

    Cost To Complete ( CTC ) for a project

    I have to estimate the cost (mainly man hours) of a project which is nearly nearly completed but has many many small problems. The expectation I feel is that I present a WBS with work packages and associated costs. But I think that it is not the right way to do, because it suggests that with...
  3. Sirius

    Uses of Inventor.......

    Cheers Jack, I've looked at Visio website - *very* interesting (price in UK Pounds??). Interface doesnt look very slick though (as AcadMDT or Inventor etc), but it's geared up for tooling design though. If its big bux, then its out of the question - they expect us to do work like on a top end...
  4. Sirius

    Uses of Inventor.......

    Also!...........whats the deal with the RedSpark standard parts?????. Do they come 'in-built' into the cad station upon install?? somebody once said you need to get them off the internet........this cant be right can it??. I would hope they come with the package pre installed!, not every...
  5. Sirius

    Uses of Inventor.......

    Hi, we have just embarked on the long process of choosing a new CAD system. Basicly, without going into everything, I was wondering if it is true that Inventor will come with a *full* set of surfacing tools on the next release (as we were told...)?. We need a hybrid CAD system really...also a...
  6. Sirius

    Whats going on with Inventor Series???

    Thanks guys. It just so happened that there was a demostration on locally and they contacted the firm today, and surprise suprise we actually got to spend half an hour looking at it (there is a bit of a lack of enthusiasm at work on this type of thing). Bit of a coincidence innit??!! Anyway...
  7. Sirius

    Whats going on with Inventor Series???

    Hello there!, I have just spent ages looking around the net to clear up something about Inventor Series and still have not found the info I am looking for!!! Perhaps someone can clarify it for me............ Right, as far as I am led to believe, you can get Autodesk Inventor 'Series' 5.3 which...
  8. Sirius

    Saving BMPs of a model or drawing.

    Hi there, I picked this tip up somewhere else and havent 'fully' tried it out but I reckon it is worth a try!!!!. I used to have all sorts of hassle trying to get a decent image out of Acad, but I tried this tip the other day and its just so easy!! : Get your screen display as you would like...
  9. Sirius

    How would you construct this!!???

    Right, thanks for your offer of help so far, but I need to be doing this this week sometime. Dont worry about it - It will all work out in the end somehow. I will just persevere and hope it doesnt take too long..... If I manage to suss out how to get the pic on here then I may do it later, just...
  10. Sirius

    How would you construct this!!???

    I have made a screen capture of the component.....how can I get it on here??.. Cheers, Sirius.
  11. Sirius

    How would you construct this!!???

    I wonder if anyone can help me out with something I am trying to draw......Its hard to explain, but Ill give it a go. Imagine a smallish pressing done on a press tool, it consists of three main faces - two of which are at compound angles.The three faces are blended together with two radii. So...
  12. Sirius

    'Slide-Fit" "Press-Fit" "M6 Caps" and "Good Finish

    Yeah, I see where youre coming from. We use three/four decimal places for 'tieing up' accurate stuff, and I admit that I tie stuff up to three places and put 'g' on the surface to indicate grinding sometimes. This is 'understood' that the plate has to be accurate and to get three decimal...
  13. Sirius

    Help Req Determining Compound Angles

    God. Autocad IS the master. Thanks very much for passing on the Align command variable to me!!. Fantastic. It has saved me hours and its so easy :). Im sure it will be one to be engrained in the memory for future use!!!. Thanks very much. Sirius.
  14. Sirius

    'Slide-Fit" "Press-Fit" "M6 Caps" and "Good Finish

    Cheers Adrian. I think youre right. I suppose I just struggle having only been in engineering for about 5 years and in toolmaking for about 3 (Shop Floor - Drawing Office). I guess my head is just made for general engineering. It often seems madness though, theres some real 'pearlers' crop up...
  15. Sirius

    Pro/Desktop

    Cheers, I will check out the link. At the moment at work we use a dos based (windows platform) 2d/3d cad wireframe surface CAD/CAM package. It has no solid functionality, even for inserting files, and is not associative or parametric in any way. You cant even generate 2d views from the 3d. I...
  16. Sirius

    'Slide-Fit" "Press-Fit" "M6 Caps" and "Good Finish

    Thanks all!!. I wish I could employ the use of geometrical tolerances,to me its the only system that makes sense of the ambiguity. I have placed GDT on some drawings in the past where it was getting awfully long-winded trying to note what I want eg. "This face must be perpendicular...
  17. Sirius

    Pro/Desktop

    Astounded by the lack of response here!!!!. I just got it about two weeks ago, havent really had time to fully suss it out yet though. Fisrt impressions are good, but call me cynical but there must be a hidden agenda here!!. This is just to good to give away free, I was going to tell my...
  18. Sirius

    'Slide-Fit" "Press-Fit" "M6 Caps" and "Good Finish

    Do you use these terms on your drawings???. As far as Im concerned its VERY bad practice, but I dont have the experience of working at many companies. I have worked for a smallish toolmaking company for a few years in design & the 'old-skool' draughy's use some really sloppy techniques (in my...
  19. Sirius

    Free Teksoft Procad download

    You wanna convert them all to dxf so they open in other progz I reckon. Our company (unfortunately) uses Procad, and in my opinion youre better of with something else anyway - its in the dark ages man!!!. Theres some awesome *free* 2d/3d CAD packages these days which are 1000 times better...
  20. Sirius

    AutoCAD units

    Right, my two pence worth.......... You say that your engraving software inputs it at the wrong scale - this is most likely the input translators on your engrave software. I have the same trouble with Teksoft, a file we get sent (apart from linetypes/layers/colours going all wrong etc) which...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top