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    Nibral thruster into an aluminium tunnel

    Hello Guys, Currently our company is engineering a Nibral (bronze)thruster into an aluminium (5083) tunnel. Both tunnel and thruster are located in sea water environment We know that these materials have a large potential difference so we use a gasket to prevent corrosion of the aluminium...
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    Best Equation to determine thruster force?

    Hello all, What is the best equation to determine the reaction force for a tunnel thruster (bow or stern)? I heard about involving windarea and even transverse current. Please help me out! Greetz, Martin Unigraphics NX4,NX3,NX2,R17 Inventor 2008,11,10,9,8,7 Solid Edge 20,10,9,8 Solid...
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    physical properties for 3D CAD materials

    Hi all, Currently I am filling a material property list to insert in 3D CAD. My company uses several types of steel with descriptions as: - 16MnCr5 - C45 - AISI 316 - etc. In 3D CAD it is possible to add properties such as density, specific heat, poissons ratio etc. Where can I find...
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    adjust date format in title block

    how can I adjust the date format in inventor (10) In my Title Border I inserted the variable <ENG APPROVED BY> Whenever I set a date for approval (say today) it shows month, day, year How can i change it to year, month, day Thanks already Unigraphics NX4,NX3,NX2,R17 Inventor 10,9,8,7...
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    ISOMETRIC SECTIONS in 2D environment

    Hi All, How can I section ISOMETRIC VIEWS in the 2D environment? I have a driveshaft assy, which I want to show in isometric position in my drawing with a 120 degree cut out. to show it's internal parts clearly assembled. Inventor even advertises with this feature (see link below)...
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    equation difficulties

    Hey all, I have some automation problems in IV 10. In a sketch, I have an arc which I would like to dimension by its arclength, since this variable is my inputvalue. However, Inventor doesn't seem to have arclength dimensions available in the sketch environment. So I tried to solve my...
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    Representations IV10

    Hi guys, In my machine design I use assy's and sub assy's and sub-sub assy's combined with representations. The sub assy's have the sub-sub assy representations nested in it's own representations. However if i try to nest the representations from a sub assy (including the nested sub-sub...
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    Disc spring

    Hello everybody. At this moment i am trying to make an assy with positional representation. In this assy a disc spring is placed which i would like to increase and decrease in height. In the assy environment everything is working out fine, with adaptivity and workplanes etc. However when a...
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    Adaptive coils in IV9?

    Hello fellow wizzkids, Is it possible to make coils adaptive? I tried several methods with adaptive workplanes, equations etc. But it seems to be out of my leaugue this time. Martin
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    control code for square dim prefix needed

    Hi all, In the past I worked with Autocad R12. Back then I used control codes for dimension prefixes like %%c or /u+2205 for a round object. What I forgot and nowhere seem to find is the control code for a square object. Please help !! Thanks, Martin
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    surface finish symbols

    Hi all, Some time ago I worked with UGS 17 and used some surface finish symbols in drafting to produce proper 2D drawings However with NX2 I don't find the menu to add/alter roughness values etc. and a way to connect the symbol to a definition line/dimension Help Please!!!! Thanks, Martin

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